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In 2014, the uber-liberal Seattle City Council passed a law mandating that all businesses in the city raise their minimum wage to $15 by 2021. The most noted advocate of the law is the openly Socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant, who believes it will help “tackle the chasm of income inequality and social injustice.” The law
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For many years now, my family has always tried to make some time over the holidays to sit down together and read old Christmas stories. The first memory I have of this tradition occurred when I was in early grade school. Even though it was past my bedtime and the rest of the family was
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Anyone who takes a college critical thinking course learns about the fallacies or common errors in reasoning. One fallacious form of scientific reasoning is confirmation bias. That is, when someone collects evidence, they immediately interpret it in a way that confirms their prior beliefs or theories. Many of us are prone it, but what is
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The Week reports that more than 1,300 “students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism.” Particularly offensive to students are midterms essays (they’d prefer a conversation with their professor, they say) and grades below a C. Now, one might
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Via the Washington Post: “When 17-year-old Grant Berardo wanted to wear a political T-shirt on school picture day in October, his parents told him it was fine. His “TRUMP Make America Great Again!” shirt did not violate the dress code at Wall Township High School in central New Jersey because it did not reference drugs
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