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Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
Have you ever noticed that more and more parents seem to be spoiling their children? But according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, there is one area in which parents should be encouraged to spoil their children. That area is books. As Riley implies, good parenting so often involves saying “no” to the demands and desires of
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Chicago Teachers Union Rally: ‘F-ck the Police’0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
On April 1st, the Chicago Teachers Union held a strike that shut down the district. The strike is ostensibly over changes in pension contributions, pay for experience, and other money related matters. According to ThinkProgress.org, “On Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union staged a strike. Union members picketed schools, held rallies at City Hall, the Cook
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Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in
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Study: Grammar Nazis are Jerks 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
We’ve all been in one of those Facebook conversations battles that involves words flying off our fingers almost as fast as the brain can process them. When the battle turns nasty, we’ve likely been tempted, at one time or another, to demonstrate our intellectual superiority by mocking our counterpart’s poor grammar. (“Ha, you jackass! You
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Chicago Public Schools has a $1 billion deficit!?!0
- Economics
- April 6, 2016
Once again, the Chicago Public Schools made national news with another strike by teachers and administrators, who shut the district down for the day. The Chicago Teachers Union called it a “Day of Action: Fight for Funding Rally & Protest March” and described the efforts as follows: In this unprecedented strike for political demands and
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Why Big Government Wants to Micromanage Your Parenting 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
How many minutes is too long to leave a child in a car alone? Before answering that question, I bet you want a lot of additional information. How hot is it? Or is it very cold? How’s the neighborhood? Are you parked close to the street and near traffic? Can you see the car from
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