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  • Staying Sane in La-La Land

    Staying Sane in La-La Land0

    Madness abounds. At an Illinois shopping mall on December 6, a boy asked a masked Santa Claus for a Nerf gun for Christmas. That Jolly Old Elf sternly said no, no guns of any kind, and suggested other gifts like Legos, leaving the poor kid in tears. His mother admirably refrained from punching Santa in the

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  • Staying Sane in a Pandemic

    Staying Sane in a Pandemic0

    The Coronavirus Zombies are here. I just returned from Martin’s, our local grocery, where I saw many of my fellow Virginians, some of them masked, drifting around the store, picking over what remains of the canned goods, casting hopeful glances at the paper goods aisle – nope, still no TP – their eyes dull, mostly

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  • Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data

    Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data0

    Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data. Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight explained her epiphany. “Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking

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  • Statism’s First Casualty Is the Truthful Use of Language

    Statism’s First Casualty Is the Truthful Use of Language0

    Senator Hiram Johnson is credited with having said during World War I, “The first casualty, when war comes, is truth,” and this observation has been made in more or less the same words many times, both before and since Johnson made his statement. No doubt the declaration is true, but it is true in a

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  • States Allowing This Practice Have Fewer Teen Suicides

    States Allowing This Practice Have Fewer Teen Suicides0

    Freedom is the precursor to happiness. When we’re free, we feel in control of our lives and able to direct our own path. If we’re unhappy, we can make changes and make different choices. If we are not free, we cannot make these choices. We cannot be our own agents, and so we suffer. This

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  • Statement on Facebook Suppression of Intellectual Takeout by Charlemagne CEO Devin Foley

    Statement on Facebook Suppression of Intellectual Takeout by Charlemagne CEO Devin Foley0

    Charlemagne CEO Devin Foley offers news and insights on the suppression of Intellectual Takeout by Facebook in the days surrounding the 2020 election.   Save this article to favorites

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