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What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us About Minimum Wage Laws 0
- Economics
- January 9, 2017
This week, twenty states began implementing minimum wage increases that were passed during 2016. As the country waits to see how these increased wages this will affect the economy, the U.S. territories have already provided us with a grim example. After the 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act was passed, each of the fifty states was required to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour in 2006,
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A Lesson We All Can Learn from the Chicago Torture Case 0
- Philosophy
- January 9, 2017
The kidnaping and torturing of a white, special-needs teenager by four black teenagers in Chicago has horrified the country. Details of the attack point to racial hatred, but Matt Walsh wonders if something “worse” also was behind the depravity of the attack. Walsh noted that on the Facebook video of the attack, the attackers weren’t
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Former NEA Lawyer: Abolish the Department of Education 0
- Education
- January 9, 2017
Have you ever noticed that making cuts to any area of education is enough to make teachers, parents, and politicians alike break out in a cold sweat? Indignation abounds as pundits weigh in and wonder how anyone dare suggest that bread be taken from the mouths of babes. That attitude, however, may be heading out
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The PC Thought Police Zero in on Children’s Literature 0
- January 9, 2017
It is of the nature of modern secular ideologies that they can’t ignore the least deviation from their lengthening list of what counts as culturally unacceptable. In America, new racial and gender ideologies are now affecting even children’s literature. In an article in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, Meghan Cox Gurdon, who writes
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Chicago: 3 out of 4 Blacks Born out of Wedlock 0
- Culture
- January 9, 2017
Regarding the news of four black teens in Chicago livestreaming their kidnapping and torturing of a white, special-needs youth, CNN’s Don Lemon argued that it wasn’t evil, but rather “bad parenting”. While I vehemently disagree with Don regarding the issue of evil, his point about bad parenting is worth looking at deeper. As previously reported
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Plato, Descartes and Kant Too White for Univ. Students 0
- Culture
- January 9, 2017
Via the Telegraph: They are said to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilised society. But students at a prestigious London university are demanding that figures such as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant should be largely dropped from the curriculum because they are white. The student union at the School of
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