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  • The GOP’s Impossible Dream of Swaying Black Voters

    The GOP’s Impossible Dream of Swaying Black Voters0

    Blacks are intensely devoted to the Democratic Party and to corrupt Democratic machines in urban areas, at least partly because they hate Republicans, the white man’s party. It makes no difference how often Fox News tells blacks they are living on the “Democratic plantation,” or that the Democrats are the party of slavery defender John

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  • The GOP’s Food Stamp Proposal Would Blow the Cost Savings on Bureaucracy

    The GOP’s Food Stamp Proposal Would Blow the Cost Savings on Bureaucracy0

    The Republicans have so forgotten how to control spending, even when they try something conservative it is not really conservative. Consider the House GOP’s proposed reforms to the food stamp program in the upcoming farm bill. The GOP wants to put work requirements on a small share of food stamp (“SNAP”) recipients. The Congressional Budget

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  • The Goodness and Gifts of Gratitude

    The Goodness and Gifts of Gratitude0

    A young man I know drives to work from Front Royal to the traffic-tangled roads of Northern Virginia. He recently told a mutual acquaintance that he uses the hour-long trek to prepare his mind for the day’s tasks. On the way home, however, he spends that same drive decompressing from work and readying himself to

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  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From Our Nation’s Report Card

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly From Our Nation’s Report Card0

    Every couple years, the U.S. Department of Education evaluates how well American education serves its students. The Department uses a test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) – often dubbed the “Nation’s Report Card.” This year’s report, which was released late last month, evaluates fourth and eighth grade students’ proficiency in reading and math. The test

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  • The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism

    The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism0

    While Venezuela continues to collapse into a living hell for all but Nicolás Maduro and ruling elites, support in America for democratic socialism continues to rise. Graphic reports such as the recent New York Times photo essay about starvation in Venezuela abound: Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn

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  • The Good Christian Men Will Be out There… Eventually

    The Good Christian Men Will Be out There… Eventually0

    “Where are the good Christian men?” Christian journalist Rod Dreher posed that question in an article for The American Conservative, which was republished by Intellectual Takeout this week. Dreher had just met Anna Hitchings, a 32-year old Catholic journalist in Australia, who is despairing of ever finding a decent man to marry. She published an

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