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  • Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute

    Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute0

    While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.” In reality, the exact opposite is true because those statistics omit a broad range of government benefits, charity, and unreported income. When these are counted, the poorest fifth of U.S. households consume five

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  • Postmodernism: The Philosophy Behind ‘Identity Politics’

    Postmodernism: The Philosophy Behind ‘Identity Politics’0

    In The Art of War, Sun Tzu writes, “If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.” Many of you consider yourself enemies of the prevalent “identity politics” that are causing so much strife and bitterness in America today. To defeat this enemy will require coming to

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  • Post-Russiagate: Who Has the Most Egg on Their Face?

    Post-Russiagate: Who Has the Most Egg on Their Face?0

    The Muller probe has ended and with it the narrative that President Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. The reputations of media pundits and whole news organizations are now in shambles and exposed for all to see, like grotesque deep sea creatures beached on the sand after the tide goes out.  It’s

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  • Post-Lockdown: Insist On The Old Normal

    Post-Lockdown: Insist On The Old Normal0

    When the CIA wanted to circumvent possible Chinese bugging of its offices in Beijing in the 1980s, it came up with a voice protector or “hush phone,” essentially two masks with tubes running between them. It worked, but no one would use it. George Shultz said he felt “ludicrous” wearing something that made him look

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  • Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever

    Post Office Has Boom Year, Loses More Money Than Ever0

    For the U.S. government’s 2018 fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service reports that it successfully boosted its annual revenue by $1 billion over the previous year to $70.7 billion, marking a boom year for its mail and package delivery services. Unfortunately, it also spent about $3.9 billion more to provide those services than it took in during

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  • Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness

    Positive Psychology and a Gospel of Happiness0

    “What is real happiness? How can I experience it? How can I live it?” As Christopher Kaczor notes in the Introduction to The Gospel of Happiness, these are questions that every thoughtful person asks. Where, however, might a thoughtful person go for help in answering these questions? Thoughtful Christians, of course, go to the Bible, the

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