On this day in 1792, George Washington issued the first presidential veto in American history. It was short and sweet, consisting of three paragraphs and listing his objections based on constitutional grounds. James Madison was the next president to use the veto pen. Like Washington’s, many of Madison’s vetoes were to the point and expressed
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As the Intellectual Takeout piece, “A Primer on Courage,” noted: “Courage, also known as ‘fortitude’ or ‘bravery,’ is one of the four cardinal virtues along with prudence, justice, and temperance. Along with temperance, courage helps one to conquer the obstacles to doing the good with prudence and justice. According to Aristotle, one possesses the virtue
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Leon de Winter, a Dutch novelist and political commentator, pushed the boundaries of acceptable discussion following the Brussels attacks with a recent piece titled “Europe’s Muslims hate the West.” At the core of his argument is the difficulty or even outright refusal of some Muslim immigrants to assimilate to the West. He begins by arguing
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A tiresome false dichotomy bedevils political debate about the causes of poverty among the able-bodied. The Left says that such poverty is caused by the greedy capitalists who won’t give the poor enough opportunities to earn or receive money. The Right says it’s caused the moral failures of the “takers”, i.e. sloth, crime, addiction, and
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For those who regularly whip up a meal and eat dinner at home, cooking out of a meal kit like those from Plated or Blue Apron sounds ridiculous. But in spite of the eye-rolling these kits have induced, the New York Times reports that they’re catching on with the public: “In the span of a
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I’m thinking of getting rid of most of my kids’ toys. I’m simply tired of the messes. I thought at first that we just needed to teach our kids more discipline; that in addition to our thorough weekly clean we needed to be more rigid about overseeing morning and evening cleans. But ain’t nobody got
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