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  • The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order

    The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order0

    Back in December of 2020, then President-elect Biden said that he would not make vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory, nor did he think they should be mandatory. Given the new vaccine mandate by the White House, set to affect nearly 100 million Americans by some estimates, one reasonably conclude that Biden misled the people. However, Biden’s

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  • The Founding Fathers on What to Do With Poor People

    The Founding Fathers on What to Do With Poor People0

    1. “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” -Benjamin Franklin, 1766 (On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor) 2. “The government of the United States is

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  • The Founding Fathers on Education—and Education Today

    The Founding Fathers on Education—and Education Today0

    I was recently looking through Intellectual Takeout’s archives and once again stumbled upon Annie Holmquist’s article “Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today.” Annie’s comparison of how reading lists have changed reveals how students today aren’t held to as high of standards as students 100 years ago, and Annie’s commentary got me curious

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  • The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers

    The Founders Were Not Education Centralizers0

    Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, they say, promoted a government role in education. Therefore, they would have opposed school choice. Retired educator Mary Wilke, a correspondent for the Concord Monitor, recently quoted John Adams—co-author of the Declaration of Independence

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  • The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy

    The Foundation of Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Philosophy0

    Listening to Diane Feinstein’s grilling of Neil Gorsuch during the recent Senate judicial nomination hearings, you might have noticed a question about the Supreme Court nominee’s opposition to euthanasia or mercy killing. Gorsuch confesses that he wrote a dissertation, turned into a book (The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia), arguing in favor of existing

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  • The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    The Forgotten Reason for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict0

    “The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was the headline of Martin Indyk’s May 14 article in Foreign Affairs. Washington may not be able to end that conflict, he wrote, but must actively manage it. Indyk, a former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under President Barack Obama, and who served two separate

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