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  • Scientists: Funny People are Smarter

    Scientists: Funny People are Smarter0

    This may come as a surprise or it may not, but according to a 2011 study from researchers at the University of New Mexico, funny people seem to be a bit smarter than your average person.  The University of New Mexico asked 400 psychology students to complete measures of abstract reasoning ability and verbal intelligence

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  • Norway’s Children Are Being Taken from Their Homes

    Norway’s Children Are Being Taken from Their Homes0

    For most parents the thought of Child Protective Services showing up on the doorstep is terrifying. It’s even more terrifying when you believe you are innocent of the charges brought against you. That’s the case with a Romanian-Norwegian couple known as Marius and Ruth Bodnariu. Shortly before Christmas last year, Mrs. Bodnariu was alarmed when

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  • Is America Ripe for a Dictator?

    Is America Ripe for a Dictator?0

    The creeping accelerating expansion of U.S. executive power and the state of the 2016 presidential primary has respected academics and pundits—on both the left and the right—a little nervous. Charges of an inevitable slide of republicanism to authoritarianism to dictatorship have been all the rage in 2016. Donald Trump has been the most prominent target

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  • Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’

    Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’0

    If anything positive has come about from the 2016 presidential campaign season, it would be that the press has revealed its true character. Complaints abound from Americans of all stripes that “the media” is more interested in driving its own narrative than simply informing the public. In his 1908 book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote about

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  • Are We the ‘Last Men’?

    Are We the ‘Last Men’?0

    Perhaps Friedrich Nietzsche’s most recognizable title is Thus Spake Zarathustra, in which he deals with some of the recurring themes in his works such as the “death of God,” the will to power, and the Superman.   As I mentioned the other day, Nietzsche had perceived that the foundation of European morality had been undermined

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  • 7 Relevant Quotes for Tax Day

    7 Relevant Quotes for Tax Day0

    1. “We con­tend that for a nation to try to tax itself into pros­per­ity is like a man stand­ing in a bucket and try­ing to lift him­self up by the han­dle.” – Winston Churchill, 1905   2. “[N]o taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant….” – George Washington, 1796

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  • The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework

    The Weakness of ‘Consent’ as a Moral Framework0

    After rejecting the Christian moral framework that largely guided us for 1,500+ years, the post-modern West settled upon moral relativism in the mid- to late-20th century as the replacement. Now fifty years or more into the experiment, we’re seeing that it doesn’t work as well as we’d hoped. The logic of a relativistic society dictates

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  • The Virtues of Book Ownership

    The Virtues of Book Ownership0

    “Can you spare a dollar so I can buy this book?” I heard a man’s deep voice ask this question as I raced up a flight of stairs, speeding my way to the second floor of the local public library to drop off some overdue books. His voice was coming from the library’s “sale room”

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  • The Real Debate is over Human Nature

    The Real Debate is over Human Nature0

    In Federalist #51, the ‘Father of the Constitution’, James Madison, argued: The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of

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