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  • School Cancels ‘A Christmas Carol’ After Triggered Parents Complain

    School Cancels ‘A Christmas Carol’ After Triggered Parents Complain0

    A friend of mine recently relayed the story of how his daughter came home from kindergarten saying “excuse you” to anyone who sneezed.  “I think you mean ‘God bless you,’” he gently prompted her. “No, my teacher says to say ‘excuse you’ when someone sneezes,” came her response. According to news out of Pennsylvania, sneezing

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  • Could This Assassination Be the Beginning of World War 3?

    Could This Assassination Be the Beginning of World War 3?0

    Today’s assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, is already drawing some ominous comparisons.   Karlov was gunned down on Monday evening in Turkey’s capital of Ankara as he delivered a speech at an art exhibit. In the video of the attack, the shooter, off-duty police officer Mevlüt Mert Altintas, 22, could be heard

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  • Study: Children of ‘Authoritative Parents’ Are Smarter with Money

    Study: Children of ‘Authoritative Parents’ Are Smarter with Money0

    Last Christmas, family practice doctor Leonard Sax made waves when he declared that parental authority is in decline in America. According to Sax, parents have increasingly allowed their children to call the shots in deciding how they want to live their lives, instead of parents being the ones running the show. As psychologist Lisa Damour

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  • The Electoral College Is No Accident

    The Electoral College Is No Accident0

    The Electoral College has now done its work and confirmed the results of the presidential election. But not before another election in which the candidate who received the most votes lost and caused it to become the object of a debate about the legitimacy of its role in a democratic republic. The appropriateness of the

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  • What if teenagers can’t even read?

    What if teenagers can’t even read?0

    The teacher’s words are a year old now, but still deeply troubling. In her December 4, 2014 letter to the editor, Kim Dallas, an English teacher at Rosemount High School in Minnesota had the following to say: “I teach high school English, and I am begging you to please read to your children. Read everything.

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  • Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious

    Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious0

    Every day on Facebook, I watch as some debate is interrupted by a correction of a participant’s grammar. When these corrections occur on Intellectual Takeout, they are sometimes accompanied by a dig at the person’s intelligence, with the implication that the corrector is much more of an intellectual. For all of you Grammar Nazis out

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