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  • Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s ‘No Such Thing’ as a Non-Essential Worker

    Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s ‘No Such Thing’ as a Non-Essential Worker0

    Few people in history have seen more jobs up close than Mike Rowe, the longtime host of the Discovery Channel’s hit TV show Dirty Jobs. Now the blue-collar icon has a message for those who say “non-essential” employees have no business working during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent TV appearance with Dana Perino on

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  • Mike Rowe is Offended by Nordstrom’s $425 Fake Muddy Jeans

    Mike Rowe is Offended by Nordstrom’s $425 Fake Muddy Jeans0

    We’ve all seen those torn jeans that upscale stores sell for a couple Benjamin Franklins. Well, Nordstrom’s recently took it a step further. Via Mike Rowe: “This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society. Behold the latest assault from

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  • Mike Rowe Hits Hard for Fatherhood

    Mike Rowe Hits Hard for Fatherhood0

    If you’ve followed Intellectual Takeout for any length of time, you’ll know that Fatherhood is a regular topic. You’ll also probably recognize that it’s not a popular topic in the culture. The Ivory Tower declares patriarchy as one of the great sins of the West. Hollywood and Madison Ave. do their parts to mock and

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  • Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class

    Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class7

    A few years ago, I interviewed a married couple for an article, who, although only in their mid-20s, already owned a thriving business. This couple had met in a high school welding class – a fact which prompted the husband to joke that “sparks flew.” Humor aside, I was intrigued to hear that a welding class

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  • Mike Pence Dining with Women Rule is Backed by Women Themselves

    Mike Pence Dining with Women Rule is Backed by Women Themselves0

    Three months ago the twittersphere and liberal press sniggered at US vice-president Mike Pence and chided him for a statement that he once made (dug up by the Washington Post) about how “he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his

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  • Midwestern Values: May We Never Lose Them

    Midwestern Values: May We Never Lose Them0

    I spent nearly a week in June in the flyover part of the country – Topeka, Kansas, to be exact – and found it to be a refreshing change. There’s noticeably less snark, whining, self-entitlement, and virtue signaling there than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live and work. Several of the friends

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