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  • Who is Assata Shakur?

    Who is Assata Shakur?0

    During the recent Chicago teachers strike, a controversy broke out between the Chicago police and the Chicago Teachers Union after a teacher rose to the rally podium and gave a “profanity-laced tirade”, which included “F-ck the Police!” Here’s the video:     The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that the Fraternal Order of Police is

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  • Study: Grammar Nazis are Jerks

    Study: Grammar Nazis are Jerks0

    We’ve all been in one of those Facebook conversations battles that involves words flying off our fingers almost as fast as the brain can process them. When the battle turns nasty, we’ve likely been tempted, at one time or another, to demonstrate our intellectual superiority by mocking our counterpart’s poor grammar. (“Ha, you jackass! You

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  • Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education

    Study: 1 in 4 College Freshmen Need Remedial Education0

    In recent years, the expressed goal of the education system has been to ensure that every child is college- and career-ready. That goal has enjoyed a measure of success, particularly as college enrollment rates rose from 26% to 41% between 1980 and 2012. But landing a spot in college doesn’t necessarily mean students are ready

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  • People Should Be Able to Argue without Getting Nasty

    People Should Be Able to Argue without Getting Nasty0

    “My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end…. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled.” These words from G. K. Chesterton’s autobiography

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  • Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books

    Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books0

    Have you ever noticed that more and more parents seem to be spoiling their children? But according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, there is one area in which parents should be encouraged to spoil their children. That area is books. As Riley implies, good parenting so often involves saying “no” to the demands and desires of

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  • Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?

    Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0

    Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in

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