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Penn State Offers Free Psych Counseling as Trump Inauguration Nears 0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, participation awards and now pre-presidential inauguration coddling. The Daily Collegian reports that Pennsylvania State University is offering students free psychological and counseling services “in this time of transition.” Yes, you heard it right, folks: Penn State is launching a special campaign to help millennial students cope with the stress, anxiety and
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MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s relentless commitment to peace resulted in an extraordinary honor. On Oct. 14, 1964 the Georgia-born minister became the youngest person to ever win the award, which he received for his nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. Two months later, King, who donated the $54,123 Nobel Prize money to the civil rights
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What Parents Can Learn From this 4-Year-Old Reading Prodigy 0
- Education
- January 13, 2017
As The Washington Post reported, the Library of Congress had a special visitor Wednesday: 4-year-old Daliyah Arana. But Daliyah wasn’t visiting the library as just any old tourist. She was visiting as the “librarian of the day.” According to the WaPo, Daliyah attained this special status for her stellar reading ability. Even though she has
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No, Not Everyone Is Entitled to Their Opinion 2
- Education
- January 13, 2017
It’s commonly believed today that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.” What nonsense. Where does this “entitlement” regarding opinions come from? Who has bestowed it? The statement is a decidedly modern one. No person until very recently in history would have dreamed of saying something so silly. It’s usually attributed to the American financier
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Is it Rational to Fear Corporations More than Governments?0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
I recently had a delightful discussion with a friend who is a physician—we’ll call her Kortney—about the Affordable Care Act. I’ve long been skeptical of the idea that the federal government could create an efficient and affordable consumer marketplace for healthcare, a notoriously complicated and expansive system that touches many industries. Recent developments, I said,
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Millennials Who Borrowed Money to Get a Degree Got Destroyed (See Chart)0
- Culture
- January 13, 2017
If there’s one generation that has become the scapegoat for the nation’s problems, it’s the millennials. They don’t get married and start families. They live in mom’s basement and don’t buy their own house. They drift from job to job and school to school trying to find their “passion.” In short, they can’t “adult.” But
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