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Ted Kennedy Had Secret Dealings with Soviets Before 1984 Election 0
- History
- March 8, 2017
Reports (and tweets) are swirling all over the internet about allegations that U.S. intelligence agencies bugged the Trump Campaign during the presidential election over suspicion the campaign had ties to the Kremlin, which stands accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential contest. Perhaps because of this revelation, several observant readers brought to our attention
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The Alt Right’s Intellectual Roots Go Way Back 0
- History
- March 8, 2017
Reading “How I Left the Left” is a solid reminder that there’s not much intellectual heft remaining on that side of the fence. If an ideology sets out to isolate the locus of evil in people’s very identity, it is pretty well spent. This, in addition to the failure of the socialist model everywhere it has
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Middlebury Riot Shows the Veneer of Our Civilization is Thin 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization. Middlebury College in Vermont is a liberal arts school. The prolific author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was asked to speak at
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Why We Should Fear the Deep State 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
The notion of the “deep state” or a “state within a state” is creepy, to say the least. It indicates the existence of a shadowy group of unelected bureaucrats deeply embedded in the military-intelligence establishment secretly manipulating government policy. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute defines the ‘deep state’ as “nothing more than agencies and
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Why does International Women’s Day Ignore Motherhood?0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day, an occasion for celebrating what is unique about women’s contribution to society: their irreplaceable role as mothers, homemakers, educators, nurses — in short, all the person-centred and nurturing activity that they typically excel at and with which they increasingly transform other professions and society at large. WHAT? Sorry!
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The Virtues of Learning to Sew 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
I find myself feeling nostalgic these days. My kids are growing up in a different world than the one I knew at their age. My childhood encompassed a time before personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We had five channels on the television—my family lived so far out of town that we didn’t have
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