Some Grinches hate America! The whole American scene! And no one quite knows the reason why they wish to vent their spleen. It could be, perhaps, that their shoes are too tight. It could be their heads aren’t screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all Is that their
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The media cannot forgive Bernie Sanders for refusing to “bend the knee” to Elizabeth Warren regarding her recounting of a now infamous December 2018 meeting between the two, in which the Vermont senator allegedly said a woman could not be elected president. Furthermore, if you don’t agree with Sen. Warren’s version of events, or if you mention
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In today’s political discourse, the minimum wage is frequently mentioned by the more progressive members of Congress. On a basic level, raising the minimum wage appears to be a sympathetic policy for low-income wage earners. Often kept out of the conversation, however, are the downstream effects of this proposal. The consensus among economists has always been that
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The meaning of religious freedom came home to me, fittingly enough, by the dawn’s early light, slanting through a dormitory window in China many years ago. I was one of 10 young people spending a summer teaching English as a Second Language classes at an agricultural college 3,000 miles west of Beijing, in what’s known
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When I was in high school, I had a classmate who obsessively sorted everyone in the school into made-up categories. It seemed like every week, he would invent new sets of criteria by which to group us. For reasons I couldn’t fully explain, I hated it. It was only years later, when employers started asking
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In Mark Helprin’s humorous and insightful novel Freddy and Fredericka, Freddy, the bumbling Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, and his spoiled wife Fredericka, are dispatched on a special mission: to conquer the United States of America. Wearing “modesty panels of golden rabbits’ fur,” they parachute into New Jersey at night and set off
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