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Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union is Going Viral 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
A friend shared a video on Facebook a few days ago that featured Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union Address. My eyes popped when I saw that it had been viewed nearly 100 million times (according to Facebook), and then it occurred to me that a different friend had emailed me the same clip
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Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch 0
- Politics
- February 1, 2017
Neal Kathal, an acting solicitor general in Barack Obama’s administration and a law professor at Georgetown, says that liberals should support Neil M. Gorsuch, whom Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court Tuesday evening. Via the New York Times: I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last
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5 Non-Political Tidbits about Trump’s Supreme Court Pick 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to take Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. Despite the pageantry of the announcement, it was difficult not to let one’s eyes stray to Judge Gorsuch and his wife Louise. The two of them looked like a nice, middle-age, average American couple, suddenly
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2016’s Homeownership Rate was the Lowest Since 1965 0
- Economics
- February 1, 2017
Yesterday, the Census Bureau released its measure of homeownership for 2016, and the annual average for 2016 was 63.4 percent. That’s the lowest rate measured since 1965 when the homeownership rate was 63 percent. 2016 was also the twelfth year in a row in which the homeownership rate was lower than the year prior. In
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Do Men Secretly Want Stay-at-Home Wives?1
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
Are men afraid to tell women their true desires? The answer to that question may hinge on what those desires are. If those desires are for women to break through the glass ceiling and do everything a man does, then it’s likely men are not afraid to spill their desires to the woman in their
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Second Grade Reading Textbooks: 1879 vs. Today 0
- Culture
- January 31, 2017
Over the weekend, a friend of mine was describing her work as a teacher in a local classical school. The literature class she taught for 2nd and 3rd graders particularly interested me. I then asked her what type of reading materials her class used. She replied that their main textbooks were McGuffey readers, the primers
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Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union is Going Viral 0