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  • We the Sheeple of the United States

    We the Sheeple of the United States0

    In 1917, wearied and angered by the slaughter on the Western Front, French soldiers marched toward the battlefield past the general staff bleating like sheep, protesting what they correctly surmised would be another blood bath. Later they would openly mutiny against these attacks, willing to defend the front but unwilling to continue charging across No

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  • We the People Don’t Need a President’s Plan

    We the People Don’t Need a President’s Plan0

    Hillary Clinton has a “plan.” I live in a “battleground state” so Clinton shared her plan with me in commercials, over and over and over again, through Saturday afternoon college football. Clinton’s plan is to spend more taxpayer money. Her spending initiatives include free college tuition for students in families making under $125,000 a year,

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  • We Shouldn’t Be This Invested in a Presidential Election

    We Shouldn’t Be This Invested in a Presidential Election1

    The reality of a Trump-Biden rematch has provoked a torrent of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the mainstream media. One article after another had declared the 2020 redux as the matchup Americans “don’t want” and are “least excited about,” with one pollster describing it as a “cruel joke.” All of this consternation highlights one of the

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  • We Should Mourn, Not Laugh, at Broken Marriages

    We Should Mourn, Not Laugh, at Broken Marriages35

    Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I’ve ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. So it is in “The Roses,” a new release starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. In “The Roses,” we are thrust immediately into a

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  • We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror

    We Should Heed What This Ex-Soviet Spy Says About Beauty … And Terror14

    In the end, the only memorable stories, like the only memorable experiences, are religious and moral. They give men the heart to suffer the ordeal of a life that perpetually rends them between its beauty and its terror. These two sentences, written by Whittaker Chambers, quite literally stopped me in my tracks when I first

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  • We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College

    We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College0

    Last year, Pew Charitable Trusts reported that eight in ten Americans are in debt. Much of that debt stems from home mortgage loans, but as a new chart from Slate demonstrates, the last ten years have also seen an explosion in debt from student loans. Such an explosion is not surprising considering the push to

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