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  • Sledding Down the Slippery Slope

    Sledding Down the Slippery Slope0

    A friend who was just noodling around the AccuWeather site found a blog post called “Why Have Midwestern Cities Banned a Beloved Winter Pastime?”           The piece, which seems like it might just sit in a slush pile on AccuWeather‘s news desk and await recycling every snow season, discusses a few horrible

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  • Slavoj Zizek: Don’t Mock Trump, Propose an Actual Vision

    Slavoj Zizek: Don’t Mock Trump, Propose an Actual Vision0

    A minority of those on the Left have responded to Trump’s election with rational reflection and a critical look at some of their positions that were rejected by voters. However, the majority of the Left seem to be throwing a collective temper tantrum and resorting to all-too-familiar Alinskyite tactics to disparage Trump.   Slovenian philosopher

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  • Slavery is Still With Us, and It’s More Widespread and Profitable than Ever

    Slavery is Still With Us, and It’s More Widespread and Profitable than Ever0

    A few years ago I went to a lecture by the Right Honourable The Baroness Cox, of Queensbury. She spoke about her charitable work in many of the most dangerous areas of the world and in particular about the redeeming of slaves in Sudan. What struck me at the time was her comment that not only

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  • Slavery Is Alive and Well Today… but Not in the Way Many Expect

    Slavery Is Alive and Well Today… but Not in the Way Many Expect0

    What exactly is a slave?   My online dictionary describes it as “a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.”   That one doesn’t satisfy. Though some might debate the definition of “legal property,” this definition would make the mother of a three-year-old a slave owner.   My

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  • Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives

    Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives0

    Recently several Intellectual Takeout team members attended an appointment at a university in the Twin Cities. While walking across campus, the subject of high college costs came up. According to one member of our group, annual tuition at his alma mater has nearly doubled in the handful of years since he attended. And his experience

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  • Skip Mandarin Class, Choose Latin Instead

    Skip Mandarin Class, Choose Latin Instead0

    In 1989, Japanese businessman Minoru Isutani purchased Pebble Beach’s famous golf course for $850 million, and Mitsubishi Estate Company paid $846 million for 51 percent of New York’s Rockefeller Center. The United States cowered from the kamikaze attack of Japanese capital on American business. American students swamped Japanese language programs, as the Land of the Rising

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