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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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‘Logan’ and the Challenges of Fatherhood 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2017
Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine for seventeen years and nine films, longer than his young co-star Dafne Keen has been alive. In Logan, his R-rated and final ride as the adamantium-clawed mutant, Jackman embraces his age and experience to play a grizzled, broken-down Wolverine, a man of violence who has lost his way—until a
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Can States Secede from the United States?0
- Education
- March 7, 2017
While many believe that the American Civil War “settled” the issue of secession for all time, such a view must be met with the scrutiny of honest scholarship. The secession question seems particularly relevant today with the rise of the Calexit movement. And a candid study of historical context and the notes from the ratification debates
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Entrepreneur: Why I Left the Left 0
- Economics
- March 7, 2017
This past Saturday I drove down to the local gun store in my quaint mountain town to pick up some bismuth shells, just in time for an early morning Sunday hunt. As I perused the impressive selection of bird bashers, a small fracas in my periphery began rising to a twangy crescendo. I rounded a
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