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At just 11 years old, I watched as a midwife cared for my mother and delivered my baby sister. A spark burst into a flame inside of me, and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to be a part of the beauty and wonder of birth and be a mother myself one
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Will illegal immigrants be voting in November’s presidential election? The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database has tallied over 1,500 proven instances of voter fraud, including almost 1,300 criminal convictions and 26 judicial findings on the matter. A sizeable number of these cases involved voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens. However, the question is
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Reason Magazine asked students at the University of Southern California to define “hate speech.” Among the students surveyed, Reason found plenty of wannabee dictators eager to offer their definitions of hate speech and ready to make it a crime. The lines students drew between what was or was not hate speech were arbitrary. The statement “Muslims shouldn’t be
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In American writer Wendell Berry’s novel “Hannah Coulter,” the titular character reflects as she grows older on her upbringing and her adult life. She also thinks often about her adult children, who have all moved away from their home and their widowed mother. In one significant section of reflection on the past and its failures,
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September is a busy month for the Fully Informed Jury Association. Each year on September 5, we celebrate Jury Rights Day as our signature day of education. Jury Rights Day commemorates the 1670 trial of William Penn, which helped lay a solid foundation for jurors’ right of conscience acquittal by jury nullification. We also celebrate
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Once upon a time, Moby Dick was required reading for American high schoolers. It is, after all, arguably, one of the greatest American novels ever penned. Sadly, most students today will never read Moby Dick, and sadder still, neither have, nor will, their teachers. There is something uniquely sublime about the great beast of the
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