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  • UNC Offers Course on Right-Wing ‘Hate’

    UNC Offers Course on Right-Wing ‘Hate’0

    Does hate speech only emanate from the right? That is the conclusion one could reasonably reach from one University of North Carolina professor’s course. Via Campus Reform: The University of North Carolina offers a communications course about the dangers of hate speech, which the course’s professor openly blames on the political right. The class, titled

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  • Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage

    Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage0

    Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour, and lobby for an increase in the federal minimum wage. This new policy is not merely cosmetic. Amazon’s

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  • Unbiased Research on Race Becoming Taboo in Academia

    Unbiased Research on Race Becoming Taboo in Academia0

    It is now dangerous for an academic to conduct or even discuss research that shows an absence of racial bias in the criminal justice system. An Asian-American college official was forced to resign his position after discussing such research, as The College Fix reports in the article, “Scholar forced to resign over study that found

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  • UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between ‘Mad Max and Hunger Games’

    UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between ‘Mad Max and Hunger Games’0

    • October 15, 2018

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to wreak havoc on humans. The report is about 800 pages long, so I’ll offer a summary to save you some time: Global temperatures today are 1.0°C above pre-industrial temperatures. We’re seeing an increase in

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  • UK’s National Health Service Moves to Cut Healthcare for Smokers and the Obese

    UK’s National Health Service Moves to Cut Healthcare for Smokers and the Obese0

    • November 9, 2017

    A core tenant of the pledge taken by all physicians is their promise first and foremost to do no harm. A physician’s vow to care for patients in a manner which does not cause physical, mental, or emotional harm has guided treatment decisions since the days of Hippocrates. Recently, however, the National Health Service, known as

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  • UK to Construct Wall to Stem Flow of Illegal Immigrants

    UK to Construct Wall to Stem Flow of Illegal Immigrants0

    Walls, it seems, are back in style.  At least in Europe. Via the BBC: Dubbed the “Great Wall of Calais” by some media, the 4m (13ft) wall will run for 1km (0.6 miles) along both sides of the main road to Calais port. [United Kingdom] Home Office minister Robert Goodwill said security was being “stepped

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