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  • Study: Chivalry Not Dead After All

    Study: Chivalry Not Dead After All0

    If you asked the American public if chivalry is still alive and well, many would likely give an answer in the negative. A 2010 Harris Poll confirmed this idea when it found that more than 80 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, “Women today are treated with less chivalry than in the past.” But

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  • Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted

    Study Linking Authoritarianism to Conservatives Retracted0

    Conservatives are from Mars, liberals are from Venus. So announced the headline of an article in The Atlantic back in 2012 that was based on a number of peer-reviewed studies. But are they really? The preferred narrative in academic and media circles would have you believe they are. Thus, in 2012, a study the article

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  • Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?

    Homeschool Grads: More Unique and Innovative?0

    Like many news outlets at this time of year, The Boston Globe recently profiled several young high school students preparing for the pomp and circumstance of graduation. But The Globe took a different angle than normal and stepped inside the world of a homeschool graduation ceremony: “‘Pomp and Circumstance’ played softly from computer speakers hooked

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  • UNC Offers Course on Right-Wing ‘Hate’

    UNC Offers Course on Right-Wing ‘Hate’0

    Does hate speech only emanate from the right? That is the conclusion one could reasonably reach from one University of North Carolina professor’s course. Via Campus Reform: The University of North Carolina offers a communications course about the dangers of hate speech, which the course’s professor openly blames on the political right. The class, titled

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  • The UN’s Rape Squads Need to Be Exposed

    The UN’s Rape Squads Need to Be Exposed0

    A teenage African girl clutched an infant boy to her chest as the shocking words spilled from her mouth. “Sometimes when I’m alone with my baby, I think about killing him,” the teen told the Washington Post earlier this year. “He reminds me of the man who raped me.” The Post’s story is chilling and

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  • School Earns Money by Ditching National Lunch Program

    School Earns Money by Ditching National Lunch Program0

    A year ago, Minnesota’s Prior Lake High School made waves when it announced it would not participate in the National School Lunch Program during the 2015-2016 school year. At that time, the Star Tribune reported the school district’s reasoning as follows: “Prior Lake High School is just the third Minnesota school to withdraw from the

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