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  • In Defense of Milo

    In Defense of Milo0

    It’s been quite a 36 hours for Milo Yiannopoulos. The conservative provocateur had his book deal canceled by Simon and Schuster and was disinvited from CPAC after a video surfaced that appeared to show him speaking “fondly of relationships between men and ‘young boys.’” On Tuesday, he resigned as senior editor of Breitbart News. “Breitbart

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  • Mark Cuban Predicts the No. 1 Job Skill in 10 Years

    Mark Cuban Predicts the No. 1 Job Skill in 10 Years0

    Billionaire software developer and investor Mark Cuban is known for playing the fool on the sidelines of Dallas Mavericks’ basketball games. But I actually think he’s a pretty smart guy, and have been impressed with his seeming level-headedness when he discourses on various topics. Take education. Five years ago, he hit the nail on the

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  • Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality

    Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality0

    When I was pregnant, my husband gifted me with a book called “No more perfect moms”. While I am by no means a perfectionist, he knew that I would have high expectations of myself as a mother – basically that I was subconsciously assuming that I would be able to slot in the whole ‘having

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  • Why We Need to Bring Back Archie Bunker

    Why We Need to Bring Back Archie Bunker0

    Comedy as social commentary is nothing new. You can go back to the days of Jonathan Swift, who wrote the outrageous, “A Modest Proposal,” as a means of bringing attention to the poor Irish. Comedians such as Lenny Bruce were doing it in the 1960’s with their standup comedy – touching on issues such as

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  • Did Dickens Foretell the Modern Women’s Movement?

    Did Dickens Foretell the Modern Women’s Movement?0

    Over the last few years, I have been on a personal quest to read various classics I failed to pick up during my school years. The most recent of these was Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, which I finished over the weekend. In reflecting on the book, I could explain how classic titles

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  • Presidents Day: How We Got Such a Lame Holiday

    Presidents Day: How We Got Such a Lame Holiday0

    “This is Washington’s Birthday,” sings Fred Astaire in the movie classic Holiday Inn, “And I can’t tell a lie.” Americans of a certain age no doubt can remember when the day we now know as Presidents Day was called Washington’s Birthday, invariably celebrated on February 22.  George Washington was officially born on February 11, 1731

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