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  • Jane Austen Forever!

    Jane Austen Forever!0

    I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to my ten-year-old daughter. I admit it was immediately motivated by my desire to watch with her the BBC mini-series, which the book was clearly written in order for them to produce one day. There’s a rule here that they have to do the book before they do the

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  • Our Ignorance of Socialism Is Dangerous

    Our Ignorance of Socialism Is Dangerous0

    A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter. Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably. Lenin was the first premier of the Union of

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  • Chicago’s New PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be

    Chicago’s New PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be0

    “If it moves, tax it.” That’s government’s eternal motto, as Ronald Reagan quipped. To this, the city government of Chicago has added, “If it amuses, tax it.” A few weeks ago, PlayStation 4 users in Chicago were shocked when they turned on their consoles and saw a message from Sony. The message informed users that

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  • 3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season

    3 Weird Things That Are ‘Triggering’ People This Holiday Season0

    The commercialism of Christmas is obvious and, sadly, inevitable. With the grand kickoff that is the ever-ironic Black Friday shop-a-thon, commercial Christmas has a roaring start, a solid middle (built on holiday guilt and anxiety), and an equally grand finish (built on last-minute panic and close-of-holiday depression).   Now, the other evil lens of Christmas

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  • How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins

    How the $15 Minimum Wage is Pushing New York’s Car Washers to the Margins0

    As protests for a $15-per-hour minimum wage continue to rage across the country, cities like Seattle and Minneapolis and states like California and New York have begun to adopt such schemes, leading to a range of unfortunate case studies in economic destruction. Despite the popular narrative that such laws will benefit the most vulnerable and put the powerful in check, the negative consequences have tended to

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  • Seasteading: The Path Out of Disunity and Bloodshed?

    Seasteading: The Path Out of Disunity and Bloodshed?0

    Why do the nations rage?   I don’t know. Maybe because they’re out of ammo culturally.   Recent news reports tell us that elderly pundit Dr. Jerome Corsi is facing prison time for getting tripped up in a perjury trap by grand inquisitor Robert Mueller. Corsi’s actions, whatever the specifics, did not produce a victim.

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