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  • Lying Media Can’t Be Trusted on Ahmaud Arbery Story

    Lying Media Can’t Be Trusted on Ahmaud Arbery Story0

    The media lies all the time. We have seen it on Russian collusion, Covington Catholic, the coronavirus, and a host of other subjects. When they are not lying, they engage in a kind of willful distortion of the facts, focusing on unrepresentative stories of the “man bites dog” variety without providing useful context. This is

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  • Lucy Doesn’t Love Sensitivity Readers

    Lucy Doesn’t Love Sensitivity Readers0

    In 1953, Lucille Ball’s character in I Love Lucy, Lucy Ricardo, gave birth to Ricky Ricardo Jr., bringing an end to perhaps the most famous television pregnancy ever. The episode, Lucy Goes to the Hospital, saw 44 million viewers tune in, covering nearly 72 percent of all American homes which owned a television. The saga of Lucy’s television

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  • Lower the Voting Age?

    Lower the Voting Age?0

    • October 7, 2015

    Having started my own business while I was still in high school, I was a bit miffed when I first discovered that I was going to have to pay taxes – at age 17. “But I can’t even vote yet!” I wailed to my father, “That’s like taxation without representation!” That little moment of drama

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  • Low Marriage and Birth Rates Explained0

    Kitty Hannah Eden had “in her own words” a traumatic, abusive, miserable childhood. So traumatic, in fact, that she refuses to become a parent. Contraception and an abortion have helped her honor this commitment through two marriages In her article “On Being Childless by Default, not by Design,” she writes that the cause of this

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  • Loving Laughter in a World That Discourages Joy

    Loving Laughter in a World That Discourages Joy4

    Several years ago, a friend and I were bluntly told that we “laughed like unsocialized homeschoolers.” Perhaps there was something more insulting lurking beneath the surface of that comment, but I’ll choose to put a positive spin on it and take it as a sign that my friend and I never had our bubbling joy

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  • Love Your Grammar, But Don’t Be Obnoxious

    Love Your Grammar, But Don’t Be Obnoxious0

    This week, the financial press reported the downfall of a high-profile grammar pedant, Professor Paul Romer, the World Bank’s chief economist, who was hoist(ed) with his own pedantic petard. He is being replaced as head of the bank’s research arm after he demanded that his colleagues write succinct, clear, direct emails, presentations and reports in

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