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  • The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights

    The Absurdity of Political Correctness Has Reached New Heights0

    A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British job placement office got in trouble for discrimination because they sought “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants.

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  • The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites

    The Absence of Honor and Our Failed Governing Elites3

    In “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars,” Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) writes of a soldier who laments leaving the “chaste breast and quiet mind” of his mistress to embrace “a sword, a horse, a shield.” But he concludes the poem with this thought: “Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt adore; I could

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  • The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus

    The Abominable ‘America Last’ Porkulus0

    This country is not governed by a “Republican Party” and a “Democratic Party.” It is governed by an establishment “uniparty” that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill.    While Americans are distracted with the holidays, Beltway crapweasels stuff their legislative

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  • The ABCs of Afghanistan

    The ABCs of Afghanistan0

    A is for Afghanistan. A faraway, hardcore Muslim country that remains utterly mysterious to our political, intelligence, and military elites even after two decades of intervention. Between October 2001 and August 2021 America squandered more than $2 trillion and more than 2,000 lives for no clear objective or tangible benefit. B is for the Washington Beltway. The

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  • The 7 Social Sins

    The 7 Social Sins0

    • August 28, 2015

    Interestingly, you usually see the above “sins” attributed to Gandhi, as he published them in his weekly newspaper in 1925. But Gandhi is not the origin of this list. Rather it was first uttered earlier that year in a sermon delivered in Westminster Abbey by an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson. Here is a picture

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  • The 7 Intellectual Virtues: Helpful Tools for Thinking Well

    The 7 Intellectual Virtues: Helpful Tools for Thinking Well4

    When we think of the words virtue or character, our minds usually go first to actionable morality. We think, for instance, of chivalry (say, a gentleman holding a door for a lady) or altruism (the willingness to give up personal pleasure to help someone else). Philip E. Dow makes a good case, though, for virtue

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