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Appeals Court Rules Bakers Must Pay $135,000 for Not Making Wedding Cake 0
- Politics
- January 2, 2018
A husband-and-wife baking team must pay a $135,000 fine for declining to make a cake for the wedding of two women, Oregon’s second-highest court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a decision by a state agency that led to the fine and forced Aaron and Melissa Klein
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Knowing Their Harm, Politicians Still Push for Minimum Wages 0
- Economics
- December 29, 2017
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Should Parents Allow Kids to Fight?0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
While dining with friends the other evening, the sibling squabbles we had as children came up as a topic of conversation. Laughingly, one friend recounted how her father, tired of hearing the bickering between herself and another sibling, calmly suggested they go outside, get some boxing gloves, and settle the argument that way. “But she
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‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars 0
- Culture
- December 29, 2017
In 1964, shortly after the release of Disney’s adaptation of P. L. Travers’ charming 1934 book Mary Poppins, J.R.R. Tolkien sent a letter to one Miss J.L. Curry of Stanford University. In the letter, Tolkien complained about the corrupting influence Walt Disney’s movies had on literary works. “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his
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1 of Every 5 Government Employees Has a 6-Figure Salary 0
- Economics
- December 29, 2017
The U.S. government pays employees a total of about $1 million per minute, according to a watchdog group’s report on the sprawling federal bureaucracy. Looking at 78 large agencies, the nonprofit organization OpenTheBooks.com found that the average salary of a federal employee exceeds $100,000 and that roughly 1 in 5 of those on the government
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University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again 0
- Education
- December 29, 2017
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing. The “Problem of Whiteness” course—part of the African Cultural Studies program—makes its mission to help students “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.” The class will also investigate how
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