The next Bobby Fischer may not come from the Muslim world. According to The Guardian, the token game of intellectuals now has a fatwa issued against it: “Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time. Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh was answering a
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An amusing citation from Margaret Thatcher reads: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” The socialists, however, were not the only ones who would run out of other people’s money. Democracies are quite capable of duplicating this feat. The question is this: What entitles us to acquire other
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More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report in a major demography journal, Population and Development Review. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in the United States, with few exceptions. The researchers find that 17 European nations have more people dying in them than are being
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Yesterday, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education issued a report aimed at reforming the college admissions process. The report’s recommendations were met with much applause from media outlets, and have been endorsed by dozens of other institutions. However, after reading through them, I find myself having a bit of a Walter Sobchak moment and thinking, “Am
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Gallup released a poll on January 11, 2016 reporting that the percentage of Americans identifying with political parties is near historical lows. Here’s what Gallup had to say: “In 2015, for the fifth consecutive year, at least four in 10 U.S. adults identified as political independents. The 42% identifying as independents in 2015 was down
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The superintendent of St. Paul (MN) Schools is assigning extra staff to local schools in an attempt to curb violent behavior. Most recently, a high school student gave a teacher a traumatic brain injury for interfering in a fight. Unfortunately, the St. Paul Public Schools district isn’t the only education system wrestling with discipline issues.
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