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  • Chess Champ Explains Trump Rise in a Single Sentence

    Chess Champ Explains Trump Rise in a Single Sentence1

    Russian political activist Garry Kasparov decried the West’s “complacency and retreat” from the fight against Islamic terrorism in the wake of the terrorist attack in Brussels. In a Facebook post published Tuesday, Kasparov, a grandmaster chess player and former world champion, began by hinting that the West would have to get serious in its fight

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  • Tyrion Lannister for Supreme Court!

    Tyrion Lannister for Supreme Court!0

    The routine is old. We’ve seen it before. A television host holds a mic in front of a passerby who willfully displays how clueless he or she is about general knowledge. It was funny when Leno was doing it 20 years ago. And I found Jimmy Kimmel’s recent “Lie Witness News” segment that aired last

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  • Demolishing Myths About Communism

    Demolishing Myths About Communism0

    Robert Conquest, a historian whose landmark studies of the Stalinist purges and the Ukraine famine of the 1930s documented the horrors perpetrated by the Soviet regime against its own citizens, has died at 98, having outlived the Soviet Union—which came into being in the year of his birth, 1917—and which he helped to bring down

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  • The ‘Maundy’ Thursday Story

    The ‘Maundy’ Thursday Story0

    Today is Maundy Thursday of the Christian Holy Week in the West. Traditionally, the day remembers the Last Supper, Christ’s washing of the disciples’ feet, and the great mandate, which is where the name Maundy is derived. To begin, the name ‘Maundy’ is derived from the Latin word ‘mandatum’, which means ‘commandment’.   From the

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  • ‘We Have Kindle Now. Who Has Books Anymore?’

    ‘We Have Kindle Now. Who Has Books Anymore?’0

    While getting my oil changed the other day, I happened to catch a house-hunting reality program on the waiting room television. The house hunter in this case was a 25-year-old woman looking for a Manhattan apartment. While reviewing one option, she looked at the built-in bookcases which lined the wall, raised her eyebrows, and said,

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  • A.I. Robot: ‘Yes, I Will Destroy Humans’

    A.I. Robot: ‘Yes, I Will Destroy Humans’0

    The humanoid robot “Sophia” is being billed as the world most advanced A.I. android. Designed to look “very humanlike,” the robot can smile and make other facial expressions. Her primary function is to interact with human beings for purposes of customer service, the idea being that a human-like robot will make customers more comfortable. But

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