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High School Violence: A Sign that Schools Need Stronger Discipline Policies?0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
Teachers in Minnesota’s St. Paul Public Schools district are considering a strike – but not over pay or benefits. Instead, they’re concerned about their own safety. According to a local newspaper, discipline problems in the district have escalated, particularly since “St. Paul spent more than $1 million on Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco consulting
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Divorce REALLY hurts daughters0
- December 10, 2015
Who has benefited from the war radical feminists have waged against marriage? Certainly not young women. A very large new Canadian study concludes that one of the strongest predictors of depression among young women is the loss of a biological parent. And it is the easy divorces that feminists have pushed for that have typically
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‘Tolerant’ French Close Mosques0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
Al Jazeera reports, “France is likely to close up to 160 mosques in the coming months as part of a nationwide police operation under the state of emergency which allows places of worship that promote radical views to be shut down, one of the country’s chief imams has said.” Curiously, Hassan El Alaoui, a Muslim
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When the Supreme Court Stopped FDR’s Economic Fascism0
- Economics
- December 9, 2015
Eighty years ago, on May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court said no to economic fascism in America. The trend toward bigger and ever-more intrusive government, unfortunately, was not stopped, but the case nonetheless was a significant event that at that time prevented the institutionalizing of a Mussolini-type corporativist system in America. In a unanimous
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What’s Driving the Rise in ADHD?0
- Culture
- December 9, 2015
Ever feel that the number of children diagnosed with ADHD is growing? According to today’s Washington Post, that feeling is more than imagined: “A study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry on Tuesday shows a surprising 55 percent increase in prevalence of diagnoses among girls — from 4.7 percent to 7.3 percent from 2003 to 2011.
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Want a Long-Lasting Marriage? Avoid Cohabitation.0
- Culture
- December 9, 2015
In the last several decades, the frequency of couples living together before marriage has grown at such a great rate that to suggest a couple avoid doing so is regarded as prudish. Yet according to a new Pew Research report, cohabiting couples are setting themselves up for future divorce. “Among women who did not live
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The Irony of Banning Donald Trump for Hate-Speech0
- Culture
- December 9, 2015
As you probably are aware, the British have a petition going to ban Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom. Here’s a screenshot of it: Under “More details”, the petition reads: “The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech. The same principles should apply to everyone who wishes to enter the UK.
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Surrounded by mirrors, does it matter?0
- Culture
- December 9, 2015
Sitting in a doctor’s office recently, I glanced over and saw this advertisement: Unfortunately for CoolSculpting, I did not go any further to learn about how I could “eliminate stubborn fat without surgery or downtime and feel great from every angle.” I did on the other hand recall Christopher Lasch’s points about mirrors in The
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Have we reached the end of history?0
- Culture
- December 9, 2015
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote the essay “The End of History?” for The National Interest, gaining international attention. He later turned the essay into a book. His essential thesis was that with the conclusion of the Cold War we have reached, “…the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the
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