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  • Tradition with Incredible Track Record Predicts the GOP Nominee

    Tradition with Incredible Track Record Predicts the GOP Nominee0

    Whether it’s First Lady cookie bake-offs, 7-Eleven coffee drinkers, or Halloween mask sales, there have been any number of fun and admittedly crazy ways to predict the outcome of presidential elections in recent years. But there’s also a longstanding and largely successful way to predict the nominee for the party not currently in the White

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  • Top Ten Ways to Be a Man

    Top Ten Ways to Be a Man1

    In an age in which tweed jackets have been replaced by sweatshirts, pants have holes and shoes lack laces, and the “un-done” look is considered attractive, maybe we need to reconsider our codes of conduct, especially when it comes to the art of being a man. Thus, the question is begged: What makes a man?

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  • This is How a Chinese Son Begged His Parents for Forgiveness

    This is How a Chinese Son Begged His Parents for Forgiveness0

    Last week, people from around the world were moved by the above photo, which showed 46-year-old Zhang Jinli kneeling in front of his parents at a railway station, begging them for forgiveness. According to the BBC: “He was apparently begging his parents, who are both in their eighties, for forgiveness. The paper reported that Mr

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  • The return of the housewife

    The return of the housewife0

    American Housewife, Helen Ellis’ critically acclaimed, darkly comic, collection of short stories, is the latest addition to the conversation about domestic life. The book was born from Ellis’ anonymous Twitter account @WhatIDoAllDay – a question she and many other women who manage a home often get asked. “Helen Ellis Is Giving Housewives a Very Good

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  • Euthanasia for Depression: A Bad Idea?

    Euthanasia for Depression: A Bad Idea?0

    A few weeks ago I posted and asked questions about a significant rise in the reported number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium. This week, a new paper published in the peer-review journal JAMA Psychiatry reports the results of a study of some Dutch patients who, suffering primarily from mental illness rather than terminal physical illness,

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  • Antonin Scalia, RIP

    Antonin Scalia, RIP0

    Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative whom even the soi-disant socialist Bernie Sanders has called “brilliant” and “colorful,” died on Saturday in Arizona. Whether writing for the majority or in dissent, Scalia usually elicited strong reactions. It appears that is no different in death than in life. Thus, the Twitter storm among some on the Left

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  • 3 Reasons Why Antonin Scalia Was a Great Writer

    3 Reasons Why Antonin Scalia Was a Great Writer0

    Following the news of Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death on Saturday, Slate Magazine ran an article by Yury Kapgan about the Supreme Court Justice’s superb writing abilities. According to Kapgan, Scalia’s writing was made great by “the novelty of his language, his use of metaphor, and his wicked sense of humor.” Kapgan is undoubtedly correct about

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  • Words of wisdom from Russia?

    Words of wisdom from Russia?0

    From Reuters we learn: “Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the specter of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces. Medvedev, speaking to Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve of talks between major

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  • Why the Culture Wars Are Philosophy Wars

    Why the Culture Wars Are Philosophy Wars0

    If you watched the Super Bowl you probably saw, and may even have noticed, the Doritos commercial. It contains a pregnant woman’s ultrasound image of her unborn child. The use of that image provoked a tweet of outrage from NARAL Pro-Choice America: Now you might call humanizing human fetuses an “anti-choice tactic,” but as an

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