I’m not a fan of the horror genre. By “horror genre” I not only mean horror movies, but also haunted houses, supernatural hayrides, scary books, gross Halloween costumes, and “hey, I heard a noise downstairs can you che—” No. The answer is no. Not a fan. Thank you and goodbye. The one thing that quite
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When most of us think of child entrepreneurs, our minds conjure up pictures of neighborhood lemonade stands and summer lawn mowing gigs. But in the modern marketplace, today’s “kidtrepreneurs” aren’t just running small-scale businesses anymore—they are well on their way to building commercial empires. Some are so successful, their parents have even had the rare
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In the 1990s, “toxic masculinity” entered the language. Though pegging a meaning to this term is difficult, The Good Men Project offers a solid definition: “a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression.” Unfortunately, radical feminists and others have broadened the scope of this definition
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While Saddam Hussein’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction was the main selling point for the 2003 Iraq war, ending the dictator’s many human rights abuses was another key rationale. And chief among those abuses was Saddam’s “rape rooms.” “Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of
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Let’s try a thought experiment. What if your daughter were to believe that she is actually a Na’vi humanoid from the film Avatar? You are baffled. The Na’vi are ten feet tall and have blue skin and yellow eyes. Your daughter is five foot six inches tall and has olive skin and brown eyes. You suffer,
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We should always be leery of laws passed “for our own good,” as if the state knows better. The history of compulsory schooling statutes is rife with paternalism, triggered by anti-immigrant sentiments in the mid-nineteenth century and fueled by a desire to shape people into a standard mold. History books detailing the “common school movement”
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