An expert New Zealand researcher is warning women to “please have children” as, mirroring other Western nations, New Zealand’s fertility rate reaches an all-time low. The country’s total fertility rate is now 1.71 children per woman, well below the population replacement level of 2.1. Increasingly, greater numbers of researchers are acknowledging the grave problems associated
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In our summer of discontent, of protests and then riots in what many view as a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, we’ve seen previously radical ideas such as defunding the police become the norm. Not only that, we’ve seen liberal institutions such as The New York Times
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Opening my Wall Street Journal Monday morning, I saw a color photo with the caption, “SAD ANNIVERSARY: Michael Brown Sr. released a pink dove Sunday as the family marked six years since his son, 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.” If you did not know any better, you
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Scurvy, we all know, is a disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency. It took almost 200 years from the time a “lemon juice” cure for scurvy was discovered until it was promoted by the British government. Some think the mental biases that caused the needless deaths of millions have been eliminated in more “enlightened”
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As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators. An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits
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“My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years. Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families
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