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  • The History Russians and Communists Want Us to Forget

    The History Russians and Communists Want Us to Forget0

    The Soviet Union did not free the world of tyranny in World War II. It merely helped defeat one evil while ruthlessly attempting to supplant it with another one. But you wouldn’t know that from reading an Associated Press article from early September. The Associated Press originally stated that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were “allies”

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  • Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness

    Age of Rage: Five Possible Reasons for Our Current Madness0

    How did we arrive at a point in our history where gangs of hecklers chase politicians from restaurants, where senate hearings have lost all decorum, where family members and friends part ways over politics? Every day brings new examples of incivility and violence. In the last twenty-four hours, I have casually browsed several sites online.

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  • Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage

    Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage0

    Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour, and lobby for an increase in the federal minimum wage. This new policy is not merely cosmetic. Amazon’s

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  • Should the Stupidity of Youth Be Used Against Us?

    Should the Stupidity of Youth Be Used Against Us?0

    All human beings of sound mind are walking, breathing time machines. With a flip of the switch—and often, under a stimulus like Proust’s madeleine biscuit, that switch sometimes flips itself—we can soar via our memories across the decades, sitting again in that fourth grade classroom behind a boy nicknamed Spike, dancing with Debbie at our

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  • The One Question You Can Ask to Uncover a President’s Economic Principles

    The One Question You Can Ask to Uncover a President’s Economic Principles0

    Anonymous, a senior administration official writing in The New York Times, wants us to know President Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” Presumably, Anonymous believes other recent presidents operated by principles, and we can wonder who Anonymous thinks those presidents were and what principles he believes guided them. A

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  • Obama’s Anti-Discipline Policies Set Our Students Up for Failure

    Obama’s Anti-Discipline Policies Set Our Students Up for Failure0

    President Barack Obama’s first education secretary, Arne Duncan, gave a speech on the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where, in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful civil rights marchers who were demanding voting rights. Later that year, as a result of widespread support across

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