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  • 3 Lessons Learned from Wisconsin’s War on Foreign Butter

    3 Lessons Learned from Wisconsin’s War on Foreign Butter0

    In February, a number of Irish citizens were surprised to find out that selling Kerrygold butter — a line of butter produced in Ireland — is a criminal offense in Wisconsin. Irish Central reports:  Under a 1970 law all butter sold in the state must be subjected to scrutiny by a panel, which recently ruled

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  • Climate Change is Real, The Proof is in the Politics

    Climate Change is Real, The Proof is in the Politics0

    “Most big companies in the U.S. recognize that climate change is real.” So said Geoffrey M. Heal, a professor at Columbia Business School, as quoted in a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article. Of course climate change is real. It has been for thousands, if not millions of years, long before big companies existed, let alone recognized

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  • One Simple Reason Boys are Failing

    One Simple Reason Boys are Failing0

    One of the prominent narratives in society in recent years concerns the idea that women are falling behind and treated unfairly in the classroom and the workplace. An example of this is the annual “Equal Pay Day,” which highlights the gap in earnings between women and men. But while the plight of women often receives

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  • Socialist Mechanic Schools Agitators Disrupting Charles Murray Speech

    Socialist Mechanic Schools Agitators Disrupting Charles Murray Speech0

    Charles Murray was heckled and interrupted again, this time at the University of Villanova, where students formed a “silent protest” that was anything but. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took a video of the scene (see below), which is worth watching for several reasons. Much of the video is standard fare: A

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  • How Relativism Contradicts Itself

    How Relativism Contradicts Itself1

    It’s often pointed out that relativism is becoming more prevalent in the West. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI claimed that the West was building “a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.” But though an attitude of relativism may be

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  • Prof Explains Why Black Families are Rejecting Public Schools

    Prof Explains Why Black Families are Rejecting Public Schools0

    Because of their long-fought battle for equal access to education, it is generally assumed that black families are big fans of public schooling. That assumption, however, is beginning to show its datedness, as evidenced by the research of University of Georgia College of Education professor Cheryl Fields-Smith. In a recent interview with The 74, Dr.

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