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  • The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb

    The Affective Fallacy: Understanding How Your Feelings Can Make You Dumb0

    The NBC show Friday Night Lights is about high school football in a small Texas community. High-school students are taking part in a class discussion when the brash star halfback, Brian “Smash” Williams crudely argues that monogamy is unnatural for a male. The teacher is puzzled by Smash’s statement. A female friend and classmate, Waverly,

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  • Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable

    Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable0

    In July, the mayor of San Francisco frankly stated that poverty in the city is so bad, that “there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen.” And it’s not just her – the local NBC investigative unit found a “dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco.” While

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  • How One Deleted Scene Turns Star Wars into a Struggle Against Socialism

    How One Deleted Scene Turns Star Wars into a Struggle Against Socialism11

    In the era of Disney, many long-time Star Wars fans have bemoaned the supposed infiltration of their favorite franchise by leftist ideology.   At first, I rolled my eyes at these objections, many of which remain patently absurd. But after Solo: A Star Wars Story gave us a shrill SJW droid hooking up with a pansexual Lando Calrissian, I had to admit that some critics might

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  • Does the Death Penalty Actually Save Lives?

    Does the Death Penalty Actually Save Lives?1

    Four centuries ago, the Vatican condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth orbited the Sun, and forced him to recant. Many years later, the Church admitted it was wrong. One can only hope that the Vatican reverses itself more quickly regarding its misguided attack today on the death penalty. The death penalty saves the lives of

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  • Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom

    Why Straw Bans Don’t Help the Environment and Needlessly Restrict Freedom0

    Of all the consumer products one might have expected to become a flashpoint for political controversy, the humble plastic drinking straw is an unlikely contender. Leap into the headlines it has, though, with communities like Seattle and San Francisco recently enacting bans on disposable straws. The city council of Santa Barbara, California, initially voted for a ban

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  • Sarah Jeong Proposed Banning the Atlantic Editor Who Exposed ‘The Hunting Ground’

    Sarah Jeong Proposed Banning the Atlantic Editor Who Exposed ‘The Hunting Ground’0

    If you defend bad journalism and call for the banning of good journalists, you probably don’t belong in journalism. But Sarah Jeong did that and was rewarded for it. She has been hired by the New York Times to be a member of its editorial board, despite a long history of racist tweets calling white

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