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Why UPS Is Able to Save the Environment While Ethanol Subsidies Destroy It 0
- Economics
- January 22, 2019
Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have captured the headlines, but Ocasio-Cortez is not the only democratic socialist congresswoman elected to the new Congress. Fellow freshman and democratic socialist Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, is eager to make her own splash. Last December, Ocasio-Cortez, along with fellow freshman member Tlaib, attended a congressional boot camp. At the boot
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Depose the Deep State or a Wall Is Meaningless 1
- Politics
- January 22, 2019
Last week in the Russian collusion saga, we learned that the FBI opened an investigation into the president because it disagreed with him on a matter of foreign policy. Yes, the agency first formed to catch people who crossed state lines with white women to have sex—and that now keeps secret files on UFOs—surmised in
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump Transgender Military Policy—for Now 0
- Culture
- January 22, 2019
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a limited ruling Tuesday on the issue of transgender people serving in the military. The narrow issue the high court decided on in the broader case of Trump v. Karnoski was whether to uphold a lower court’s injunction preventing the military from implementing the Defense Department’s
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No, People Aren’t Fine Just the Way They Are 0
- Culture
- January 22, 2019
I remember being amused in my college philosophy classes that ancient philosophers like Plato considered the sphere the shape of perfection. I had spent a lot of time (and still do today) trying not to be spherical. Throughout years of struggling with my weight I have noticed something perverse happening in myself. Just when
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Covington: Stay Strong, Boys!0
- Culture
- January 22, 2019
Boys, in you I see my own teenage sons. Shoulder to shoulder they will stand with you and march into the culture war that you are unfortunately inheriting. You have been through a lot already: 1) Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother Alex, who got married last
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Why Liberal Chesterton Shunned the Progressive Label 0
- Culture
- January 21, 2019
We are all bundles of contradictions to some extent. Some bundles are bigger than others. And some contradictions are more contradictory than others. Until his mid-thirties, self-described reactionary G. K. Chesterton generally supported the Liberal party of England. Does that make him a bundle of contradictions? And if so, how big and how contradictory? Let’s
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Why UPS Is Able to Save the Environment While Ethanol Subsidies Destroy It 0