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Hey, Hey. Ho, Ho. The New Order of ‘Peaceful Protests’ Has Got to Go.0
- Culture
- August 19, 2020
Another day, another video of “peaceful protesters” engaging in violent behavior. This time, the place is Portland, the victim a young man beaten repeatedly despite his plea that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. The images are disturbing, to say the least. Even if the man was intentionally trying to hurt protesters – which early
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Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hope in Our Age of Anxiety 0
- Culture
- August 19, 2020
Recently a friend who works as an editor for a large homeschool company told me his supervisors had temporarily assigned him to the admissions department. “In June,” he explained, “our enrollments were up 35 percent, in July they were up 100 percent over the previous July, and now it’s mid-August and we’ve already broken that
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When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back 0
- Economics
- August 18, 2020
The separateness in New York, and by extension much of the nation curled around it from America’s eastern edge, stands out. There are the hyper-wealthy and there are the multi-generational poor. They depend on each other, but with COVID who needs who more has changed. It’s easy to stress how far apart the rich and
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Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government 0
- Economics
- August 18, 2020
Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” That baseball team of words should continue to terrify us. When we look at government failures in the last 50 years, the list
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Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court 0
- Culture
- August 18, 2020
Peter Vlaming has two great passions – teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce
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Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me 0
- Education
- August 18, 2020
In my tenth grade English class, just like many other American students, I read some of the works of the late Joseph Conrad, an unbounded explorer and captivating writer. But my class did not analyze Conrad’s books as my father or grandfather did when they were my age. Instead of discussing how his works shaped
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