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Why Does Middle America Vote for Trump?0
- Culture
- January 31, 2020
Many mainstream journalists have wondered how social conservatives could bring themselves to support a crass, twice-divorced politician as president. If they would bother covering events like last week’s March for Life, which they rarely do, they might find some enlightenment. For the last 46 years around this time, thousands of people gather at the National
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Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate How Many Americans Are Destitute 0
- Economics
- January 30, 2020
While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.” In reality, the exact opposite is true because those statistics omit a broad range of government benefits, charity, and unreported income. When these are counted, the poorest fifth of U.S. households consume five
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Three Things I Have Learned From Living in Brazil 0
- Culture
- January 30, 2020
I live in Brazil. What image does that conjure up in your mind? Perhaps you think of pristine white beaches and coconut trees. Maybe your first thought is of the amazing soccer talent in this country. Maybe you are imagining a country populated by ridiculously good looking, surgically enhanced people. There’s a kernel of truth
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E.B. White’s Forgotten Story About the Tyranny of Good Intentions 0
- Family
- January 30, 2020
E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web and co-author of The Elements of Style, once wrote a story that aptly demonstrates the folly of central planning. White, a Maine farmer who wrote for The New Yorker and Harper’s, saw the story turned into an animated short, which he narrated 36 years after its publication. In “The Family that Dwelt Apart” – published in The New
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Modern Feminism’s Hated Enemy: Womanhood 0
- January 30, 2020
Women across the West are under attack. Our enemy is not the infamous “patriarchy,” allegedly scheming to undermine us at every turn. Nor is it pregnancy, with its physical discomforts and emotional tribulations. Even children are blameless here, no matter how much their arrival can shift careers or thwart travel plans. No, the culprit is
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The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration 5
- International
- January 30, 2020
At the age of 40, I converted to Catholicism. A friend of mine at the time, also Catholic, told me her rule when entering the confessional booth: “Be brief, be blunt, and be gone.” I’ll be following that advice about brevity and bluntness in this column. Most readers know of the sexual scandals of some
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Why Does Middle America Vote for Trump?0