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  • Standing for Truth in Scaryville

    Standing for Truth in Scaryville5

    Walking recently in the fast-gentrifying former mill-town section of Middle America in which I live, I spied yet another sign taped to a front window. “Anti-choice is NOT pro-life!” it read. “Yeah, pro-choice is pro-life,” I mutter under my breath as I pass. I’m no longer surprised by the signs I see in many windows

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  • Stamping Out the Fire of Free Speech Only Makes It Spread Faster

    Stamping Out the Fire of Free Speech Only Makes It Spread Faster2

    The more you try to stamp out speech, the more the message spreads.

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  • Stalin Erased His Enemies From History (Literally)

    Stalin Erased His Enemies From History (Literally)0

    It’s no secret that governments in the 20th century killed a lot of people, but few did it with greater efficiency than Joe Stalin, whose policy of forced collectivization killed an estimated 14.5 million people between 1930-1937. Stalin employed terror with a zeal and skill few could match, marginalizing rivals such as Leon Trotsky, who was expelled from the

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  • St. Paul’s Rent Control Experiment Is Increasingly Disastrous

    St. Paul’s Rent Control Experiment Is Increasingly Disastrous0

    In November, FEE Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo wrote about a new policy in St. Paul, Minnesota which stood to implement the strictest rent control policy in the United States. “The city just approved a rent control measure that will limit landlords’ ability to increase rents on its 65,000+ rental properties,” wrote Polumbo. “They will not

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  • St. Patrick didn’t Drive Out the Snakes

    St. Patrick didn’t Drive Out the Snakes0

    A common myth that has persisted for 1,500 years is that St. Patrick drove out the snakes of Ireland. That is simply not the case. He did do a great many of things, but that is not one of them. A Treasury of Irish Folklore (1967) sheds some light upon a possible reason for the

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  • Squashing Free Speech With High Heels

    Squashing Free Speech With High Heels0

    Political correctness has now conquered beauty pageants. On July 18th, Kathy Zhu was suddenly stripped of her Miss Michigan crown. Subsequently, she was disqualified from competing in Las Vegas for the Miss World America Organization (MWA) competition. Why? For “offensive” Tweets that date back to over a year ago. Based on those tweets, MWA’s National

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