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  • When Warming Up a Car in Winter Becomes a Crime

    When Warming Up a Car in Winter Becomes a Crime0

    Via WXYZ Detroit: Did you know you could get fined for heating up your car? One man’s parking ticket has gone viral, with thousands of views after he was ticketed for heating up his car in his own driveway. Taylor Trupiano says he’s still shaking his head over a parking ticket he got on his

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  • When Virtue Becomes a Death Warrant

    When Virtue Becomes a Death Warrant0

    Earlier in the election, the idea was advanced that the moral character of a candidate no longer matters. Accordingly, the two main choices Americans have for president are individuals whose pasts are tainted by dishonesty and immorality. One of these two candidates will eventually exhibit great control over American life, largely because of the current,

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  • When Truth is Relative, Racism is Okay

    When Truth is Relative, Racism is Okay0

    Our outrage is real. We feel injustices in our very souls.  As such, we must ask ourselves why that is and in so doing we are confronted with two options: 1) social constructs are pressuring us to feel a certain way or 2) there is a transcendent truth to which our sense of justice appeals. 

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  • When the Words ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ Become Heresy

    When the Words ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ Become Heresy0

    We live in a world of Orwellian doublethink and nonsensical newspeak. This has long been the case and nothing has changed. Way back in 1789, the tyrants of the French Revolution, under the pleasant-sounding slogan Liberté, Fraternité et Egalité threw people into prison in the name of liberty, committed fratricide in the name of fraternity,

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  • When the West Lost the Battle of Ideas

    When the West Lost the Battle of Ideas0

    The dismantling of the idea of the West began when medieval philosophers began re-introducing the Sophist notions reduced to ashes by Socrates. This reintroduction came about as a reaction to extreme scholasticism in the Middle Ages. It was a fascinating thought experiment known as nominalism, but it unwittingly wrought massive damage upon the very ways

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  • When the Tassle Isn’t Worth the Hassle

    When the Tassle Isn’t Worth the Hassle0

    Graduation season has become somewhat poignant for me. I can’t help but smile when I step through the sliding doors of a box store and find myself looking at a display of cards, balloons, and festive pastries. Hats off to the grads! The tassle is worth the hassle! They’re such happy sentiments. I haven’t donned

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