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  • McDonald’s Sacks 70 Accountants, Replaces Them With Foreign Workers

    McDonald’s Sacks 70 Accountants, Replaces Them With Foreign Workers0

    Disney made headlines last year when the company laid off some 250 employees and then required them to train their replacements—immigrants on temporary H-1B visas—if they wanted to receive their severance package. (Two of the former Disney workers are now suing Disney.) McDonald’s, America’s most iconic fast food chain, reportedly has taken a similar course.

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  • McCarthy: Not the Moral Leper We Thought?

    McCarthy: Not the Moral Leper We Thought?0

    Last week our guest on a Roku TV interview show that I co-manage was Diana West, a longtime Washington Times editor and the author of a provocative book “The Death of the Grownup.” Our interview turned quickly in what, for my cohost, was an unexpected direction with Diana’s bold defense of “Blacklisted by History,” M. Stanton Evans’

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  • Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’

    Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’0

    Early this spring I experienced something that has probably only happened to me once before: I had an overdue library book. Given that I was the girl in college who felt frantically behind on her homework if she wasn’t a week ahead in her assignments, this was a bit distressing. But, I gritted my teeth

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  • Mayor Proposes Website Revealing the Names of Welfare Recipients

    Mayor Proposes Website Revealing the Names of Welfare Recipients0

    • September 25, 2015

    Taxpayers are increasingly calling for transparency in government spending. As a result, you can now find the salaries of each government employee, and in some states, the pension amounts they receive.   One mayor in Maine is proposing to take the public’s desire for transparency a step further: revealing welfare recipients by name.    In

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  • Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?

    Mayflower Compact or Plymouth Combination?0

    On the first day of our spring semester, at the little liberal arts college at which I teach, I have for the last fourteen years had the joy of watching forty freshmen respond to the complexities and depth of a seemingly simple document, that we call, the Mayflower Compact. It really should be rather straightforward:

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  • Maybe You’re A Witch

    Maybe You’re A Witch0

    Those who seek to control and to destroy like to play with words. The great Athenian sculptor Phidias was persecuted by those who whimsically used the words “embezzlement” and “impiety.” Joan d’Arc was burnt and Galileo prosecuted via an eternally elastic concept of “heresy.” The witch hysteria relied on a protean concept of “evidence.” The

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