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  • No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas

    No, Tariffs Won’t Ruin Christmas0

    President Trump says he will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports beginning September 1. The tariff would affect consumer goods primarily, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. Cue the histrionics. The Washington Post laments that these tariffs will ruin America’s “holiday” shopping season. The Post cites a study claiming that the price

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  • Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice

    Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice0

    In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books. The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories. Censorship Is Control The real aim of censorship, in Bradbury’s dystopia, is to control the

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  • Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters

    Mass Shootings: Fallout From a Culture Where Anything Goes and Nothing Matters0

    My editor at Intellectual Takeout, Annie Holmquist, wrote to me the Monday after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio to ask if I might write a column about these horrific murders. She and some of the staff were discussing the shootings and found themselves asking the following questions: Why are young

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  • When Nominalists Curl in the Squat Rack

    When Nominalists Curl in the Squat Rack0

    A gentleman at my gym recently took it upon himself to perform sets of standing barbell curls in a squat rack. This type of disordered behavior really aggravates me. A colleague of mine playfully jested with this degenerate: “Hey man, why you curling in the squat rack? There should be laws against that!” I joined

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  • Why Baby Strikes Won’t Save the Planet

    Why Baby Strikes Won’t Save the Planet0

    If you’re worried about climate change, you shouldn’t have children. Ever. That’s the new argument that many young Americans are buying into. The issue gained prominence in February when Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez raised it on Instagram, and it was back in the news earlier this month when pop singer Miley Cyrus suggested she wouldn’t be

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  • Prosecutors Treat El Paso Shooting as Domestic Terrorism

    Prosecutors Treat El Paso Shooting as Domestic Terrorism0

    Federal prosecutors are treating the shooting in El Paso, Texas, which left 20 dead Saturday, as an act of domestic terrorism and possible hate crime that could carry the death penalty. “We’re also treating it as a domestic terrorism case, and we’re going to do what we do to terrorists in this country, which is

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