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  • What’s Really Wrong with the Republicans?

    What’s Really Wrong with the Republicans?0

    Another piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks is going viral. This one is entitled “The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus”. I think Brooks’ main point is in the neighborhood of the problem with today’s Republican Party: “The Republican Party’s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses,

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  • Welcome to the Draft, Ladies

    Welcome to the Draft, Ladies0

    Military.com reports that: “Women will eventually have to register for the draft if ‘true and pure equality’ is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. ‘If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects’ of the roles of women in the military,

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  • Want to Attract the Hispanic Vote? Check out this Survey.

    Want to Attract the Hispanic Vote? Check out this Survey.0

    Like it or not, election season seems to be in full swing… a year ahead of time. One of the most highly sought voting blocs is the Latino population. But if politicians are trying to gain the Latino vote by offering some form of immigration support, they may be barking up the wrong tree. Judging

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  • Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English

    Shakespeare is Being Translated… Into English0

    You may think that sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s not. According to a Wall Street Journal article penned by Dr. John McWhorter of Columbia University, “The Oregon Shakespeare Festival… has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three

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  • Countries Encouraging Their Citizens to Have Sex

    Countries Encouraging Their Citizens to Have Sex0

    Overpopulation? Yeah, right… Granted, rural migration since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has caused many cities around the world to become overcrowded. But don’t let that fool you. Many countries are graying at rapid speed, and will soon not have enough employed men and women to support their non-working citizens (someone has to pay

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  • Africa Will Rule the World?

    Africa Will Rule the World?0

    If demographics is destiny then the world will change mightily in coming decades with Africa, especially Nigeria, featuring prominently with an exploding population of young people. The United Nations recently released its 2015 Word Population Prospects report and the findings are fascinating, if not shocking, for those who haven’t been paying attention to global population

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  • Two Types of People

    Two Types of People0

    • October 13, 2015

    As we look around at the world, most of us are just trying to get by. We may worry about the overall direction of the country or the culture, but there is only so much we can do as individuals. Most of us, unfortunately, are stuck on the hamster wheel of a debt-based economy –

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  • George Washington’s Rules of Civility in the Age of Internet

    George Washington’s Rules of Civility in the Age of Internet0

    • October 13, 2015

    Ever read George Washington’s Rules of Civility? If so, it’s unlikely you’ve read more than a handful before you realize that you’ve repeatedly broken one or more at some point in time. It’s easy to laugh at the manners of the past and dismiss them as ridiculously stiff and formal. But would we experience more

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  • Faith is Inescapable

    Faith is Inescapable0

    • October 13, 2015

    We get a lot of harsh critiques of religion from commenters on our Intellectual Takeout Facebook page. Present in many of these critiques is the idea that faith is opposed to reason. In this piece, I don’t wish to argue about the merits of our commenters’ opposition to religion. Many (not all) identify some real

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