Absolutely amazing. Even tragic. The Republicans railed against the proven failure that is Obamacare for years and voted at least half a dozen times to repeal it. It was the most important issue of the entire 2016 election. Then the GOP gained control – House, Senate, Presidency – and what happened? So far, nothing. There is no
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The anti-homework trend is growing. It started with the teacher from Texas who banned homework from her second grade class, encouraging families to spend time reading, playing, and eating together instead. It spread to a New Jersey elementary school, where the principal and his teaching staff voted to be homework free for the 2016-2017 school
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In an article written last month for the New York Times, 29-year-old Sarah Leonard suggested that millennials are turning to socialism in droves. The reason, she opined, is that capitalism has let them down: “Across Europe and the United States, millennials are worse off than their parents were and are too poor to start new
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Last month, The Washington Post accidentally leaked Defense Secretary James Mattis’ personal cellphone number. Teddy Fischer—an enterprising 17-year-old journalist at Mercer Island High School (WA)—used the opportunity to text Mattis and request an interview for his high school newspaper. Surprisingly, Mattis granted the request, and the interview was recently published on the school newspaper’s website.
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It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime
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By now, you may have heard of the New Zealand man, Mark Cropp, who made a desperate plea for a job on Facebook. His lack of employment was not due to his lack of muscle, nor his will to work, nor even his past criminal record. It was due to a tattoo. As Cropp’s picture
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