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San Antonio Violates Chick-Fil-A’s First Amendment Rights 0
- Culture
- March 25, 2019
Government officials are not supposed to impose political or religious litmus tests on businesses. They cannot punish them, or even selectively withhold benefits from them, because they made donations to organizations that engaged in political, religious, or charitable activity. But that’s what San Antonio is doing. It is violating the First Amendment rights of Chick-fil-A.
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Post-Russiagate: Who Has the Most Egg on Their Face?0
- Culture
- March 25, 2019
The Muller probe has ended and with it the narrative that President Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. The reputations of media pundits and whole news organizations are now in shambles and exposed for all to see, like grotesque deep sea creatures beached on the sand after the tide goes out. It’s
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Swimming Upstream in a Turbulent Society 0
- Culture
- March 22, 2019
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” ~ G.K. Chesterton Recently I read for review Dale Ahlquist’s Knight of The Holy Ghost: A Short History of G.K. Chesterton. Ahlquist, president of The Chesterton Society and one of the world’s experts on all things Chestertonian, packs this slim biography with details about Chesterton’s life, selected quotes—Chesterton
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Does America Need a ‘Civic Great Awakening’?0
- Culture
- March 22, 2019
When it comes to the direction of society Americans (surprisingly) agree: things are not getting better. That’s the conclusion one quickly draws from a recent Pew Research report which asks what America will look like in 2050. As the chart below shows, Americans think the country will be less important on a global level, the
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Australia’s Gun Laws and Homicide Show Correlation Isn’t Causation 0
- International
- March 22, 2019
In the wake of the March 15 New Zealand shootings, advocates for new gun restrictions in New Zealand have pointed to Australia as “proof” that if national governments adopt gun restrictions like those of Australia’s National Firearms Agreement, then homicides will go into steep decline. “Exhibit A” is usually the fact that homicides have decreased in Australia since
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America’s Apartheid Is Not Black and White 0
- Culture
- March 22, 2019
“See, in America we have this thing about ‘people of color.’ POC. I think you’re one.” That was me explaining all things American to a visitor. He was actually from Spain, so he was Spanish, not Hispanic. We were trying to figure out whether he was a POC. This was not some sort of intellectual
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San Antonio Violates Chick-Fil-A’s First Amendment Rights 0