If you’ve ever been bombarded with web ads on a topic shortly after Googling or sending an email on the same topic, you’ve probably had an uneasy feeling that Google knows more about you than you’d like to think. Unfortunately, that uneasy feeling may be destined to grow worse given new information released by the
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Is the economy killing people? The headline of a New York Post column this week by economic analyst Betsy McCaughey, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, says it is. Allowing for her political hyperbole, she has a point that calls for careful consideration. As noted elsewhere on the basis of new statistics from
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Americans love to ascribe “rights” to themselves and others. The number and scope of rights seem to expand constantly—beyond even the long and impressive list set forth by the UN’s Universal Declaration on Human Rights. But what, exactly, is a right? What is the ultimate origin of so-called “human rights”? Why do those questions matter
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When I was a little girl, I remember spending a number of summer days sitting and watching my mother load scores of garden tomatoes into jars and plop them into a steaming canner. Later, I would hear her banter with an older neighbor, “I have 30 quarts so far, Bob! How many do you have?”
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The number of Mexican migrants seized near the U.S. border plummeted in 2015, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. Via Pew: Apprehensions of Mexican migrants declined to near-historic lows last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2015, according to data released earlier in the year by the U.S. Border Patrol. (U.S. border
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If you’ve ever suffered from the condition or know someone personally who has, then you know that it’s one of the most profound and debilitating illnesses one can have. It leaves you questioning everything while simultaneously caring about nothing. It leaves you feeling like a husk of your former self. It’s a global epidemic, one
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