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This County Discovered It’s Possible to Operate Debt-Free… and Its Citizens Are Reaping the Benefits 0
- Economics
- November 8, 2018
The other day, I wrote about the disadvantages of state and local governments issuing general obligation debt. Those governments currently have more than $3 trillion in overall debt outstanding. Government borrowing enriches financial firms, encourages corruption, and magnifies the ultimate tax burden that citizens will bear for the related spending. It is prudent and practical for states
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The Armistice Day Prediction That Came True 0
- History
- November 8, 2018
As we approach the centenary of Armistice Day, 1918, let’s spend a few minutes with a British writer who supported his country’s war against Germany and worried about the peace that resulted from it. That writer would be G. K. Chesterton, who died in 1936, just before World War II, or the war that he
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How to Avoid One of the Most Common Parenting Mistakes 0
- Culture
- November 8, 2018
“Parents should not make empty threats to their kids.” You would be hard pressed to find anyone who will disagree with that statement. Parenting philosophies across the spectrum agree that empty threats are a bad idea. Given that consensus, it’s astonishing how often parents resort to empty threats. In fact, they are probably the most
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The Economist Explains How Transgenderism Hurts Feminism 0
- Culture
- November 7, 2018
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Mara Keisling, head of the National Center for Transgender Equality, anticipated his hostility. She declared that trans people would fight for their rights – and that “Over the last two decades, we have made faster progress than any movement in American history”. That’s probably right. Faster
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New York Lawmakers Want to Screen Gun Buyers’ Social Media History for Hate Speech 0
- Politics
- November 7, 2018
A pair of New York legislators is drafting a bill that would make social media history checks part of the process of purchasing a gun. Under the legislation, gun purchasers would have up to three years of their social media history potentially scrutinized by authorities, New York outlet WCBS NewsRadio reports. The internet search history of prospective gun
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Kristallnacht: Are We Experiencing the Modern Version?0
- Culture
- November 7, 2018
November 9th marks the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, in Germany. Earlier that month in 1938, a young Jew of Polish descent, Herschel Grynszpan, having learned of his family’s forced expulsion from their home in Hanover, Germany, bought a revolver, entered the German embassy in Paris, and killed Ernst Van Roth,
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