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Was John Wayne’s Masculine Image a Lie?0
- History
- December 15, 2017
There is perhaps no manlier icon in Hollywood history than John Wayne. More than 40 years after his last film, he remains the cinematic apotheosis of the rugged, principled, red-blooded, tough-as-nails, frontier-conquering, patriotic American male. Not even Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood can measure up to The Duke. But was Wayne’s masculine image a sham,
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Do You Know the Bill of Rights? Not Many Do.0
- Culture
- December 15, 2017
Want to brush up on your knowledge of the Bill of Rights? Check out the full text here! — Dear Readers, Big Tech is suppressing our reach, refusing to let us advertise and squelching our ability to serve up a steady diet of truth and ideas. Help us fight back by becoming a member for just
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Daniel Shaver’s Shooting Death by Police Never Should Have Happened 0
- Politics
- December 15, 2017
An Arizona jury last week acquitted Mesa police officer Philip Mitchell Brailsford of murder and manslaughter in the 2016 on-duty shooting of Daniel Shaver, a 26-year-old father. The shooting occurred on Jan. 18, 2016, at a hotel where Shaver was staying. Police were called to the location after receiving reports of a gun at the
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The Best Way to Get Boys Reading 0
- Culture
- December 15, 2017
While at a gathering of friends several months ago, I stopped to chat for a few minutes with a twelve-year-old boy whom I’ll call Davy. Although the youngest in a family of all girls, I knew Davy was all boy. He liked guns and animals and all manner of typical boy subjects. Because of this,
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Did Christians Destroy the Classical World?0
- Culture
- December 14, 2017
The Darkening Age: the Christian Destruction of the Classical World Catherine Nixey London 2017 ISBN 978-1-5098-1232-5 The reviewer who happens to be a Christian believer might well approach this book with trepidation. As if the title doesn’t say it all, the wrapper blurb describes the Christian faith as ‘violent, ruthless and intolerant’, and historian Michael
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The Growing Muslim Population in Europe 0
- International
- December 14, 2017
The Pew Research Centre, based in Washington DC, is in the middle of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, an initiative to analyse religious change and its impact on societies around the world. In the wake of the recent record influx of refugees and economic migrants to Europe in recent years from predominantly Muslim countries,
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