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  • 5 (Other) Times Russia Meddled in U.S. Elections

    5 (Other) Times Russia Meddled in U.S. Elections0

    With so much media attention on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, it seems we have forgotten the obvious: this is not Russia’s first time meddling in American elections.   In fact, Russia has been at this for a while. Yet America is all but undergoing another Red Scare. The Senate Intelligence Committee has held

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  • 5 (More) Signs Social Security Is Going Insolvent

    5 (More) Signs Social Security Is Going Insolvent0

    The Social Security Administration released its annual trustees report this week, and the prognosis is not good. Trust fund depletion—the date when Social Security’s reserves will be exhausted and the program will only be able to spend what it receives in payroll taxes at that time—is approaching at a rapid pace. This year, Social Security will dip into

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  • 5 (Fake) Tips From the 1950s on How to Be a Good Housewife

    5 (Fake) Tips From the 1950s on How to Be a Good Housewife1

    In a restaurant in Cannon Beach, Oregon, one will find on the wall an excerpt from a 1950s-era “high school home economics textbook” that offers readers several tips on how to be a good wife. They consist of the following: 1) Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal

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  • 5 ‘Lincoln’ Quotes Old Abe Never Said

    5 ‘Lincoln’ Quotes Old Abe Never Said1

    If you’ve visited Ford’s Theatre, you’ve likely seen the 34-foot tower of books on Abraham Lincoln. The tower, designed to symbolize that the final word on America’s 16th president will never be written, was constructed with some 6,800 books – just a fraction of the 15,000 titles written on Lincoln. (An admitted Lincolnphile, my personal

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  • 40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE

    40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE0

    According to Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, there is very little that is good about America. Alston recently released a statement chock full of misleading statistics that are being bandied about by people like former Obama official Andy Slavitt, who repeated one of Alston’s claims on his

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  • 4 Ways to Talk to Boring People

    4 Ways to Talk to Boring People0

    If, like myself, you are an incurable snot, you probably often find yourself trapped in hopelessly boring conversations with hopelessly boring people. These, “boring people” could be friends, relatives, coworkers – anyone whom social standards (and basic human decency) oblige you to regularly engage in small-talk. However, even as you shrivel up inside as one

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