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  • These 10 States Do the Worst Job Preparing Kids for College

    These 10 States Do the Worst Job Preparing Kids for College0

    Have you ever poured hours into studying for an exam, been told you were ready, and then discovered that despite your hard work, you couldn’t pass the test? Unfortunately, that’s what many of the nation’s high school graduates are experiencing. They’ve worked hard in school, walked across the platform to receive their diploma, and gone

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  • There’s Nothing Fake About the Dangers of Transgender Medications

    There’s Nothing Fake About the Dangers of Transgender Medications1

    A terrifying story about drugs for transgender children has been making the rounds in the past few days. Originating in LifeSiteNews, it claimed that Lupron, a puberty-blocking drug used in treating transgender children, has been associated with 6,000 deaths. It spread like wildfire across conservative sites. However, it was quickly debunked as “a viral fake news

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  • There’s Not a Googol of Anything in the Universe

    There’s Not a Googol of Anything in the Universe0

    • July 28, 2015

    File this under the “whodathunk?” category… My kids are obsessed with the number “Googol,” i.e., 10^100, or, a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It always ends up being the climax of their silly enumeration back-and-forths (“Oh yeah, well you have a googol of [insert unpleasant thing]!”) But when we looked into it, we were surprised

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  • There’s No Such Thing as an Unregulated Market

    There’s No Such Thing as an Unregulated Market0

    • January 30, 2015

    It’s a choice between regulation by legislators or by consumers A big economic problem the world faces is semantic. That is, “regulation” has come to mean “government regulation.” We don’t seem to be aware of the alternative: regulation by market forces. That’s a problem because it leads us to accept so much government meddling that

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  • There’s No Moral Difference Between a Wall and a Migrant Visa

    There’s No Moral Difference Between a Wall and a Migrant Visa0

    A large portion of the world’s population lives in conditions that are hard to fathom for people in developed countries. Many of those living in extreme poverty would gladly move to the United States, the European Union or Australia if given a chance. In light of this, how should rich countries design and enforce their

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  • There’s More Than One Way to Burn a Book

    There’s More Than One Way to Burn a Book0

    “There is more than one way to burn a book,” Ray Bradbury once said. “And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Bradbury wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 about a world that systematically burned books. In late December, I resolved to try and read more books than those I review for

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