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  • Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity

    Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity0

    Via Ilya Shapiro at Cato: “Thursday’s removal of the filibuster – a parliamentary tool effectively requiring 60 votes to proceed with a vote on a matter – for Supreme Court nominees is the long overdue denouement of a process that began not with Senate Republicans’ refusal to vote on Merrick Garland, or even Harry Reid’s

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  • The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia

    The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia0

    Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the

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  • Why Is War Such a Seductive Illusion?

    Why Is War Such a Seductive Illusion?0

    Today the US appears to stand on the brink of launching yet another major war, ostensibly out of moral outrage at what is happening in Syria, and allegedly for the sake of human rights, conducted with a completely unjustified sense of certainty that war will produce a better result than diplomacy, trade, and caution. Today

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  • Should Schools Teach Students to Shoot?

    Should Schools Teach Students to Shoot?0

    Several years ago, Intellectual Takeout released the popular image below pondering why rifles and target practice are no longer a part of school activities today. Needless to say, the image generated a lot of debate and discussion. But while rifle practice is still taboo in many American schools, one school in the U.K. has made

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  • The Progressive Roots of Fascism

    The Progressive Roots of Fascism0

    Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have become, for many of us today, mere Hollywood villains—generic personifications of evil or (in Mussolini’s case) buffoonish authoritarianism.  Yet their ideologies were rooted in specific philosophical ideas—ideas which had many respectable adherents in their day. One person who understands this is Jonah Goldberg, author of the 2007 book Liberal

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  • Are We Witnessing a Quiet Revolution in Education?

    Are We Witnessing a Quiet Revolution in Education?0

    There’s an old adage which suggests that money is a great motivator. According to a recent article in U.S. News and World Report, Idaho schools seem to be discovering the truth of that sentiment. As the article reports, Idaho schools began a new experiment last fall when they opened a $4,000 education account for every

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