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  • Mother Scolded by School for Slice of Cake in Child’s Lunch

    Mother Scolded by School for Slice of Cake in Child’s Lunch16

    My parents always took the teacher’s side. I grew up attending public schools in the Chicagoland area and I can count on two fingers the number of times (out of hundreds of opportunities) that my Mom and Dad thought a teacher had gone too far. Today, by contrast, teachers routinely face obnoxious, know-it-all parents who

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  • Mother of Dead Trans Teen Seeks to Create a Child to Remember Him By

    Mother of Dead Trans Teen Seeks to Create a Child to Remember Him By0

    For the latest episode in the Reproductive Revolution, we turn to Scotland. A 16-year-old transgender girl, Ellie Anderson, died last month of “unascertained” causes, not long after commencing hormone therapy to enable him to become her. We mustn’t ignore the sorrow of Ellie’s mother or the sadness of an early death. But asking what constitutes

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  • Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education

    Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education0

    As we know, the legislators in Congress are supposed to represent all of us, the Joe Averages in the streets and lanes of the nation. Our legislators know this too – or at least they know how to give lip service to the idea. In all likelihood, it is this mentality of needing to represent

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  • Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year

    Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year0

    No doubt, you’ve seen a few headlines like this example from The Washington Post: In a rather interesting opinion piece in The New York Times, Mark Follman, an editor at Mother Jones, throws some cold water on the claim that there have been more mass-shootings this year than actual days of the year. Frankly, it’s

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  • Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’

    Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’2

    • April 12, 2017

    We’ve all heard the expression “According to research…” followed by some scientific finding that we are expected, given this prefatory expression, to accept without question. But as it turns out, even in a field as supposedly objective as biomedicine, reliability and validity are sorely wanting. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, science writer Richard Harris bemoans

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  • Most People Today Want to be Propagandized

    Most People Today Want to be Propagandized0

    There’s a principle in hypnotism that goes like this: A person cannot be hypnotized against his will. He must be a willing subject. He must be fully cooperative. So it goes with propaganda. For propaganda to be effective, it requires submissive subjects. As Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy wrote, propaganda is a “co-production in which we are

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