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Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right About the New Amazon Headquarters?0
- Economics
- November 14, 2018
After much anticipation, Amazon announced yesterday that it will open its new headquarters, HQ2, in two locations: Queens, New York, and Crystal City, Virginia. It will also open a third “Operations Center of Excellence” in Nashville. Controversy attended the announcement, as all three cities promised the company subsidies and tax incentives topping $2.2 billion. New York pledged $1.525 billion between
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Widow Explains Why Assisted Suicide Can Be Harder on the Family Than Natural Death 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her husband’s one-way trip to a Swiss suicide clinic. Deborah Binner is bitterly critical of the decision her spouse Simon made to seek assisted suicide after being stricken with a fast-moving form of motor neurone disease. She writes from
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What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System 0
- Education
- November 13, 2018
When it comes to exports, the US ranks third behind China and the European Union. But even while it trails in the exportation of physical goods, the US seems to be succeeding in the exportation of new ideas. One of these is the modern homeschool movement. And one of the countries avidly buying into this
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The Mob at Tucker Carlson’s Home Shows How Idealism Can Lead to Evil 0
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
Last week, angry “Smash Racism DC” Antifa protestors chanted obscenities outside the home of Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson: “Racist scumbag, leave town!” They ominously added, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where you sleep at night.” The mob broke Carlson’s front door. A video captured one protester saying she wished she had a pipe bomb. Most consider
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The Christian Quote that Everyone Takes out of Context 8
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
“[E]very saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” A quick Google search for that Oscar Wilde quote will suffice to show just how popular it is. It’s been engraved into jewelry, tattooed onto skin, and posted on Pinterest over picturesque backdrops of mountains or train tracks. The meaning is simple and edifying:
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A Quick Guide to Writing an Excellent Essay 5
- Education
- November 13, 2018
Introduction, statement of case, outline, proof, refutation, conclusion: the six parts of organization are, remember, parts, not necessarily paragraphs. Though students have often been taught that every paragraph must have a topic sentence, one sentence that distills the proof in the paragraph which is proving the thesis, that is not strictly true. What is essential
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