Another example of the censorial character of modern universities is making its way around the internet. According to the original article in Campus Reform (a conservative site), “Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as ‘illegal alien,’ ‘male,’ and ‘female,’ or if they
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Are tablet computers harming our children’s ability to read? That’s a question asked by a recent article in The Guardian. A definitive answer remains rather illusive. Because tablets and many other tech devices are relatively new, it’s difficult to definitively determine if tablet usage is leading to a decline in reading. Some studies show it
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Thomas Jefferson truly believed that a free people require a free press. On the other hand, he really loathed newspapers, as illustrated by the following 10 quotes: 1. “The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any
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The debate over the rightness or wrongness of pornography has arisen again with the news about Josh Duggar’s infidelities, which he in part attributes to an addiction to internet pornography. When it comes to the morality of pornography, it seems there are two main competing views today. One view holds that looking at pornography is
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Interestingly, you usually see the above “sins” attributed to Gandhi, as he published them in his weekly newspaper in 1925. But Gandhi is not the origin of this list. Rather it was first uttered earlier that year in a sermon delivered in Westminster Abbey by an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson. Here is a picture
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“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Spoken by Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint, it’s probably the most oft-quoted line from the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects. Some people mistakenly attribute it to C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, which involves a dialogue between two demons who are trying to bring about the
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