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  • What is Law?

    What is Law?0

    In the West, while there is a very long history of debate over law in society, the assumptions upon which the law rested have often been broadly shared, having come from the synthesis of Christianity and Hellenism or, as it is often referred to, the Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian heritage. In The Law (1850), the political and

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  • Should Women Be Subject to the Draft?

    Should Women Be Subject to the Draft?0

    A recent amendment to the House’s annual defense authorization bill would require women to register for the draft as well as men. Not surprisingly, this issue is one which is hotly contested. The amendment barely survived the committee vote (32-30), and the amendment could be removed from the bill long before it passes the House

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  • More Evidence of Male-Female Role Reversal?

    More Evidence of Male-Female Role Reversal?0

    The big news out this morning is the Pew Research finding that more young people ages 18 to 34 are living with their parents rather than married or cohabitating in their own households. Already, gallons of ink are being spilled by major news media about how this trend is driven by “declining employment” and a

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  • Magazine in 2013: Socialist Venezuela an ‘Economic Miracle’

    Magazine in 2013: Socialist Venezuela an ‘Economic Miracle’0

    A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Venezuela. Inflation is rampant (700 percent, as of Tuesday) and there is not enough food to feed the nation’s 31 million mouths. U.S. companies are pulling out.  One of the reasons the crisis in Venezuela is so tragic is that it was so predictable. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, writing in

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  • In Defense of Hamlet: No, the Play is not Misogynistic

    In Defense of Hamlet: No, the Play is not Misogynistic0

    Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the greatest play ever written. It is, however, also one of the most misunderstood. One could write a book, or perhaps a whole shelf-full of books, on the way in which the play is misconstrued by critics, or the manner in which it is sacrificed to the latest literary fads. The

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  • Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?

    Are Homeschoolers Overqualified?0

    In a recent Facebook post, Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, shared a letter he received from an Arkansas mother. The letter ran as follows: Dear Mike My son, Spencer, decided to apply for the High Voltage Lineman program at Arkansas State University Newport. He went through the interviews just fine,

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  • An Italian Surgeon Preps to Perform Head Transplants

    An Italian Surgeon Preps to Perform Head Transplants0

    Italian transplant surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero wants to perform head transplants. He was recently interviewed by Barry Morgan on CJAD 800 Montreal Radio and said he was hoping to carry out the surgery in China, before the end of 2017. He explained that when the spinal cord of a rat is cut, rather than crushed

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  • 16 Politically Incorrect Thoughts from H.D. Thoreau

    16 Politically Incorrect Thoughts from H.D. Thoreau0

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. The son of a pencil maker, Thoreau became one of the finest and most independent thinkers of his day (this free thinking is perhaps evidenced by his early decision to go by Henry David instead of David Henry). A brilliant poet, naturalist, and

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  • Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists

    Why the Sex-Selective Abortion Debate Scares Feminists0

    It’s been a quarter century since Harvard economist Amartya Sen published research showing that more than 100 million women were “missing” from the global population.  Where were they? Two decades later, the answer to that question became clearer. In her Pulitzer Prize finalist book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl detailed how females around the world were

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