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  • This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?

    This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?0

    Today’s students are on a much more delayed educational schedule than in times past. Before the 20th century, students used to enroll in college around the age of 15. The Harding family of Alabama is witnessing to the previously more expedited educations in a remarkable way: their first seven children all enrolled in college by

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  • This Dude Just Kicked A** in Women’s Cycling

    This Dude Just Kicked A** in Women’s Cycling0

    In Saturday’s 106-mile El Tour de Tucson cycling race, Jillian Bearden beat out the other female competitors with a time of 4:36.07. One important detail: Jillian Bearden is a biological male. The Arizona Daily Star reports: “Bearden, who is transgender, rode for the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance — SAGA — to promote gender inclusion within

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  • This Doctor Nails the Problem with American Parenting

    This Doctor Nails the Problem with American Parenting0

    Not long ago, the American Family Survey identified a lack of parental discipline and training as one of the biggest problems American families face. But according to family practice doctor and author Leonard Sax, that lack of discipline is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Speaking about his

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  • This Description of Medieval London Might Make You More Thankful for Government Intervention!

    This Description of Medieval London Might Make You More Thankful for Government Intervention!0

    • September 10, 2015

    Many subscribers to Intellectual Takeout are of a libertarian persuasion, and would like to see less government intervention in citizens’ affairs. Understandably so. After all, as you can see from the chart below, the number of government regulations has been increasing for some time now: However, what most libertarians are seeking is not the eradication

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  • This Debate is About Gender Dysphoria, Not Transgender Military Service

    This Debate is About Gender Dysphoria, Not Transgender Military Service1

    As a transgender military veteran, an Army retiree and the first person in the United States to have their sex legally declared as non-binary, I have a vested interest in the outcome of the transgender military service ban. In the days when transgender military service was banned, I spent 18 years of torment fearing that

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  • This County Discovered It’s Possible to Operate Debt-Free… and Its Citizens Are Reaping the Benefits

    This County Discovered It’s Possible to Operate Debt-Free… and Its Citizens Are Reaping the Benefits0

    The other day, I wrote about the disadvantages of state and local governments issuing general obligation debt. Those governments currently have more than $3 trillion in overall debt outstanding. Government borrowing enriches financial firms, encourages corruption, and magnifies the ultimate tax burden that citizens will bear for the related spending. It is prudent and practical for states

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