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  • Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert

    Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert0

    Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the apolitical “expert.” The great challenge of our era is to foster the return of actual political life between the people and their elected officials. President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un

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  • Textbook Exec: “I Hate Kids”… Common Core “All About the Money”

    Textbook Exec: “I Hate Kids”… Common Core “All About the Money”0

    Apparently, the man behind the ACORN sting videos is now set on taking down a new foe: the Common Core Standards. Today, O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a video showing conversations with Dianne Barrow, an accounts manager for textbook publishing company Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt. Here it is:     Significant quotes from the video include the following:

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  • Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns

    Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns0

    On Wednesday afternoon at the University of Texas at Austin, several students engaged in an act of protest. They strapped on dildos. The phallus-inspired action was in reaction to Texas’ new campus-carry law, which allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns on all of state’s public university campuses. At the same time, as the

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  • Texas Governor Deems Religious Services Essential

    Texas Governor Deems Religious Services Essential0

    As authorities arrest pastors for holding Sunday services in defiance of social distancing orders, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that religious services are to be considered essential in his state. Abbott issued an executive order relating to statewide continuity of essential services and activities during the coronavirus pandemic. The order mandated that all Texans

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  • Test Scores in Trinidad Skyrocketed After This One Simple Change

    Test Scores in Trinidad Skyrocketed After This One Simple Change0

    In recent weeks, the big topic of discussion has revolved around bathrooms and whether or not there is value in limiting them to a single sex. Although not as visible, another gender debate has been in the works for years. That debate has to do with whether or not there is value in separating the

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  • Test How ‘Culturally Literate’ You Are

    Test How ‘Culturally Literate’ You Are1

    E.D. Hirsch, professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, has become famous for his advocacy of “cultural literacy.” According to Hirsch, “To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.” He emphasized that a “shared, canonical knowledge is inherently necessary to a literate

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