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  • Those with Student Loan Debt: Do They Only Have Themselves to Blame?

    Those with Student Loan Debt: Do They Only Have Themselves to Blame?0

    Man goes to college. Man takes out loans to pay for college. Man graduates and is surprised to discover how burdensome it is to pay back those loans. It’s a familiar story repeated in outline by Samual Garner in a highly-read piece for Slate this week. But Garner’s story has this one unique detail: he graduated

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  • Those With One Sexual Partner in Their Lifetime More Likely to Have Happy Marriage

    Those With One Sexual Partner in Their Lifetime More Likely to Have Happy Marriage0

    It may not be the ideal found in our popular culture, post sexual revolution, but a new data analysis finds that having just one sexual partner makes for happier marriages. New research published Monday by the Institute for Family Studies reveals that married couples who have only had sex with their spouse throughout their lifetime are more

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  • Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Philosophy Is a Blank Check for Government Power

    Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Philosophy Is a Blank Check for Government Power0

    “In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power.” This key passage from Thomas Sowell’s

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  • Thomas Sowell: A Beacon of Reason in a Nonsensical World

    Thomas Sowell: A Beacon of Reason in a Nonsensical World0

    When I hear the name Thomas Sowell, it gets my immediate attention. Dr. Sowell, recently retired from his position as Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is an American economist turned social theorist, political philosopher, and best-selling author.   Born in North Carolina in 1930, Sowell grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped

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  • Thomas Paine: School Choice Supporter?

    Thomas Paine: School Choice Supporter?0

    We hear a lot these days about giving parents the right to choose the school or education which best fits their child’s needs, even if that school is a private institution. But is school choice only a modern idea, dreamed up solely by the religious right whose schools are hurting for business? Hardly. As history

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  • Thomas Paine on the Dangers of Elitism

    Thomas Paine on the Dangers of Elitism0

    On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published a little pamphlet known as Common Sense. The pamphlet would become one of the many sparks lighting the fire for the American Revolution. Thomas Paine made any number of important and influential comments in his little book including the following: “Men who look upon themselves born to reign,

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