“This is what police states do.” These words come from Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake, speaking of government spies selectively disseminating private conversations recorded by the NSA and FBI. Lake, a former senior security writer for the Daily Beast, was writing on what he called “the political assassination” of Michael Flynn, the man who now has
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A few years ago, I bought some fresh eggs from a friend who owned chickens. They were wonderful. I’m not fussy about the topic so I can’t say that I go out of my way to get fresh eggs. I’ll take them when I can get them. However, I’ve long been intrigued by her instructions
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Valentine’s Day is all hearts and flowers and mushy goodness. In the midst of all this mushy goodness, it’s sometimes a relief to view the day through a lens of reality, such as the one displayed in the meme below: For many parents, that last point is far more realistic than most would like to
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The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably not the first person who comes to mind when you think about romantic love. For most of his life, Nietzsche was a solitary and lonely figure. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche railed against the evils of women, only to recant all that he’d written a paragraph later. He
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In last week’s debate on Obamacare between former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, Sanders challenged Cruz to say that health care was a “right.” But what exactly does it mean to say that health care is a “right”? If you were to logically analyze the concept of “rights” you would discover that there
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A decision by the US Department of Justice last Friday not to support Obama-era policies on transgender school bathrooms suggests that the LGBT activists are out in the cold. Mr Obama’s Attorney-General, Loretta Lynch, made a promise to transgenders, especially students in public schools: “The Department of Justice and, indeed, the entire Obama administration
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