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  • The ‘Greatest Show on Earth’

    The ‘Greatest Show on Earth’0

    In a winter of severe illness and death, without the aid of vaccines or even anti-biotics, and during a global pandemic of Spanish Flu, in the winter of 1918-1919, one of the richest men in the world was working to merge the two largest circus acts in the country into one enormous show. In March

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  • The ‘God of the Gaps’ Is Growing

    The ‘God of the Gaps’ Is Growing0

    The story of the god of the gaps ends like a bad dream. The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries… Atheists have a

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  • The ‘Fun Police’ State

    The ‘Fun Police’ State0

    Once upon a time, America’s unofficial motto was: “It’s a free county.” Americans largely agreed that all could and should do what they wanted, assuming they weren’t hurting anyone else. You like vacations, someone else likes being a homebody. You like rock, he likes rap, and she likes country. If you wanted to smoke, ride

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  • The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control

    The ‘Everyone Gets a Trophy’ Mentality is Out of Control0

    Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he

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  • The ‘American KGB’ Goes to Work

    The ‘American KGB’ Goes to Work9

    FBI agents raided Mar-a-Largo, former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, on Aug. 8, 2022, supposedly looking for federal documents that Trump might have taken with him after leaving office. A day earlier, with Vice President Kamala Harris acting as tiebreaker for the deadlocked vote, the Senate passed the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Among

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  • The ’30 Days of Gas Station Food’ Experiment Holds an Important Nutritional Lesson for Americans

    The ’30 Days of Gas Station Food’ Experiment Holds an Important Nutritional Lesson for Americans0

    For most of human history, the primary concern of most people was getting enough food to eat. The invention of capitalism finally enabled the majority of people in market-based societies to focus on higher pursuits. Ironically, capitalism is now widely blamed for causing obesity—because of the availability of fast food, “food deserts,” or simply because

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