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  • ‘Is It OK to Still Have Children?’

    ‘Is It OK to Still Have Children?’0

    • February 26, 2019

    Is it morally permissible to have children? That question – which should have gone out with “What’s your sign?” or “Who shot J.R.?” in the 1980s – has come roaring back in a United States in which the birthrate continually hits new lows. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the question in a video she posted on social media this weekend. AOC fears

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  • ‘Immediate Harm to Millions’: AFL-CIO Tears Apart Green New Deal

    ‘Immediate Harm to Millions’: AFL-CIO Tears Apart Green New Deal0

    The largest organization of labor unions in the U.S. slammed the Green New Deal for combating climate change by threatening the livelihoods of millions of Americans. The AFL-CIO sent a letter on Friday to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, the two lawmakers leading the Green New Deal push in Congress.

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  • ‘Imagine’ a New National Anthem

    ‘Imagine’ a New National Anthem0

    Attempts to erase or denigrate our country’s past are now routine. Men and women once regarded as heroes and great Americans are regularly attacked as racists, sexists, and capitalists, their statues of remembrance removed in the popular sport of statue-toppling.          Sadly, such contempt for our past and for America’s ideals was

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  • ‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’

    ‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’31

    A guard in a Wabash, Ind., prison gave me that title. The prison was featured in a 2017 video, “Free the Kids—Dirt Is Good,” where inmates are permitted two precious hours a day outdoors. The short film contrasts that privilege with data showing that children spend less than an hour a day outside their house. At

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  • ‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’

    ‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’2

    The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.

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  • ‘Idiocracy’ Writer: The Fictional Movie Has Become a ‘Documentary’

    ‘Idiocracy’ Writer: The Fictional Movie Has Become a ‘Documentary’0

    Many times on Intellectual Takeout, we see our readers label our current age an “Idiocracy,” referring to the 2006 dystopian movie in which all future American citizens, including the president, are idiots. Well, it now appears that the co-writer of “Idiocracy” agrees with them. In a now-viral post on Twitter yesterday, Etan Cohen tweeted that

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