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California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water 0
- Economics
- January 28, 2019
California’s new governor has wasted little time continuing the state’s seemingly limitless expansion of government. Governor Gavin Newsom’s first budget proposal, published last week, suggests instituting a tax on drinking water in the name of cleaning up California’s water systems. The “Environmental Protection” section of the 2019-2020 budget seeks to establish a new special fund,
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Venezuela’s Situation Requires a Great Deal of Pragmatism 0
- International
- January 28, 2019
In a bold move last week, the National Assembly of Venezuela, which was deprived of its constitutional powers by the government-controlled Supreme Court in March 2017, appointed National Assembly’s leader Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela. This triggered an immediate reaction on the streets where millions of Venezuelans gathered to demand the resignation of
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Throwing the Sheep to the Wolves 0
- Culture
- January 28, 2019
The boys from Covington Catholic did a good thing by going to the March for Life. If what the Catholic Church teaches is true, Roe v. Wade marks a death sentence for roughly 1,000,000 innocent human beings every year, year in, year out. As John T. Noonan wrote decades ago, “No plague, no war, has so devastated the land.” The March
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What I’ve Learned As A Life-Long Homeschooler 0
- Education
- January 25, 2019
Many people still consider “homeschooling” to be a religious farmstead cult instead of a legitimate form of education. Yet on average, homeschoolers are far out-performing their publicly-educated peers in almost every subject. According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), In 1990, the National Home Education Research Institute issued a report entitled “A Nationwide Study
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Populist Rebellion: Then & Now 1
- Culture
- January 25, 2019
The motif of the era we are living through has emerged as one of rebellion against the establishment and the oligarchy that perpetuates it, Davos globalists and the deep state. It is evident everywhere — from Brexit to Trump to Italy to Brazil to the Yellow Vests. The larger question is whether some politically amorphous
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Marie Kondo is No Cure For Our Hyper-Consumer Culture 0
- Culture
- January 25, 2019
With all the commentary and meta-commentary about Japanese design consultant Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something mystical about keeping a neat home. There’s nothing mystical about it, of course, though perhaps we should be thankful that we are among the first generations in human history affluent enough to spend
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California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water 0