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  • 1 in 3 Men Didn’t Read a Single Book Last Year

    1 in 3 Men Didn’t Read a Single Book Last Year0

    Several months ago, Pew Research came out with its annual report on the number of book readers in the U.S. The results? More than a quarter of Americans didn’t even read one book in the last year. Unfortunately, those numbers get even worse when broken down by demographic group. According to Pew’s latest report on

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  • $67 million for Volkswagen’s resigned CEO?

    $67 million for Volkswagen’s resigned CEO?0

    • September 25, 2015

    Volkswagen is facing up to $18 billion (yes, billion) in fines from the EPA as a result of cheating to get its diesel-powered automobiles to pass U.S. emission standards. CEO Martin Winterkorn has now resigned, but between his pension and severance pay package he may walk away with up to $67 million. The Washington Post

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  • $36M Govt. Ad Campaign Encourages LGBT Community to … Quit Smoking

    $36M Govt. Ad Campaign Encourages LGBT Community to … Quit Smoking0

    Via the Washington Free Beacon: The Food and Drug Administration is using young lesbians, drag queens, and transgender individuals in a $36 million advertising campaign to encourage the LGBT community to quit smoking. The government launched the “This Free Life” campaign Monday, which encourages young people to “find their own truth” and not smoke cigarettes.

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  • $3 Million Government Study Finds Link Between Excessive Drinking and Aggressive Nightclub Behavior

    $3 Million Government Study Finds Link Between Excessive Drinking and Aggressive Nightclub Behavior0

    Perhaps unaware of centuries of evidence that suggests some kind of connection between excessive alcohol consumption and aggressive behavior on the part of revelers, including its own, the U.S. government launched a series of studies to learn more in 2014. Since then, the cumulative tab for the ongoing studies into the behavior of alcohol-consuming nightclub

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  • $19 Billion of Afghanistan Nation-Building Went to Fraud and Waste

    $19 Billion of Afghanistan Nation-Building Went to Fraud and Waste0

    The War in Afghanistan has dragged on for 19 years and counting. In addition to the thousands of American soldiers who have died, the conflict has come at a staggering cost of more than $1 trillion, which is roughly $3,000 per U.S. taxpayer. While one can reasonably question the validity of all of this expenditure,

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  • $180 College Textbook Says Capitalism Makes People Poor

    $180 College Textbook Says Capitalism Makes People Poor0

    • October 27, 2016

    Students of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne are receiving a rather banal message on economics: capitalism is evil. “The basic tenet of capitalism—who gets what is determined by private profit rather than by collective need—explains the persistence of poverty. The primacy of maximizing profit works to promote poverty in several ways. First, employers

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