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  • Seven Reasons to Oppose Red Flag Guns Laws

    Seven Reasons to Oppose Red Flag Guns Laws0

    The Associated Press reports Congress is seriously considering red flag gun laws. These laws, also called “extreme risk protection orders,” allow courts to issue orders allowing law enforcement to seize firearms from people who’ve committed no crime but are believed to be a danger to themselves or others. President Trump has signaled his backing of

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  • Seven Reasons People No Longer Want to be Teachers

    Seven Reasons People No Longer Want to be Teachers0

    The oldest profession – teaching – is no longer attractive. The Queensland Deans of Education revealed there have been alarming drops in first preference applications for this year’s teacher preparation courses. Queensland has experienced an overall 26 percent drop. Most alarmingly, UQ reported a 44 percent plunge. QUT saw a 19 percent drop. These figures

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  • Seven Quotes That Reveal the Racist Origins of Minimum Wage Laws

    Seven Quotes That Reveal the Racist Origins of Minimum Wage Laws0

    Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states began 2019 with a new minimum wage. Three states have since passed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a wage floor the House of Representatives is seeking to make the law of the land. The

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  • Seven Quick Facts on Vocational Education

    Seven Quick Facts on Vocational Education1

    It used to be that those who pursued vocational education either in high school or postsecondary education were considered the “dumb students.” Such a mentality, however, appears to be fading from view, particularly as high college costs make those holding vocational degrees – with little to no debt involved – look ever more brilliant. But

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  • Setting the Record Straight on the Crusades

    Setting the Record Straight on the Crusades0

    The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land, by Steve Tibble (Yale University Press; 376 pp., $35.00). If one gets his Crusades history from Karen Armstrong or the History Channel, one is likely to think that nasty and brutish Franks went off half-cocked to the Holy Land to rape, pillage, and enslave peaceful Muslims. This is an ignorant

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  • Setting the Record Straight on Liberal Fascism

    Setting the Record Straight on Liberal Fascism0

    The right is often accused of fascist tendencies in many of today’s political diatribes. A typical response is for the right to return the same accusation toward the left, a fact Edward Ring explores in a recent article for American Greatness, citing Jonah Goldberg’s famous book Liberal Fascism. Ring provides an intellectual service by bringing up the relationship

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