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  • Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor

    Univ. Announces Essay Contest on Child Welfare in Pedophile’s Honor0

    The title of this essay offers news that is untrue. It satirizes the truth in order to make a critical point. Recently the Paterno Fellows Program announced an essay contest on ethical values, which is open to all Penn State University students. The program is named in honor of Joe Paterno, who was an English

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  • United Had a Much Better Solution than Kicking Off a Passenger

    United Had a Much Better Solution than Kicking Off a Passenger0

    Everyone by now has likely seen the video depicting a man being dragged off a plane for refusing to give up his seat on a United flight. It’s a shocking and horrifying clip—so of course it immediately went viral. The video has been viewed more than 100 million times in China alone, CNN reports.  

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  • United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger

    United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger0

    Anyone asked to leave an overbooked flight for which they purchased a ticket would be justifiably annoyed. They have somewhere they need to be, and it wasn’t their fault United Airlines screwed up. So when a passenger on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was randomly chosen to be removed, he was right

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  • Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs

    Union Bosses Take Aim at Gigsters’ Jobs0

    It is an old, old story. When you push water down into the bathtub, some of it inevitably seeps out and wets the washroom floor. In the same way, raising taxes to inordinate levels means rich people inevitably leave. The actor Gerard Depardieu moved from France to Belgium. The tennis player Bjorn Borg emigrated from

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  • Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike Seems to Forget About the Kids

    Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike Seems to Forget About the Kids0

    Minneapolis teachers were striking for a fourth consecutive day Friday on bridges and overpasses throughout the city. Some 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Teachers Federation and Education Support Professionals are demanding more compensation, improved working conditions, and smaller class sizes. “Our fight is against the patriarchy, our fight is against capitalism, our fight is for

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  • Unhappy? It Might Be a Sign of Intelligence

    Unhappy? It Might Be a Sign of Intelligence0

    We’ve all either heard or posed the question: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? But a more appropriate question might be, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? An article last month in the business section of The Atlantic tackles that question in an interview with Raj Raghunathan, author of If You’re

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