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  • National Debt: We’re Probably Screwed

    National Debt: We’re Probably Screwed0

    • September 3, 2015

    According to the United States Treasury, the total national debt is $18.2 trillion. The annual, average interest rate on the debt as of July of 2015 is 2.3%, down from 2.4% in July of 2014. Here’s why that’s a problem. Low interest rates mean low carrying costs for debt. If the interest rate is 10%,

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  • Is the Lack of Playtime Preventing Childhood Development?

    Is the Lack of Playtime Preventing Childhood Development?0

    • September 3, 2015

    Hey, did you hear about the preschool that has its students doing fractions by the time they enter kindergarten? If not, good, because it’s not true… at least, I hope not. To be honest, such a scenario doesn’t seem so far-fetched given our drive to plunge children into academics as soon as they can sit

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  • A Warning to Vegans

    A Warning to Vegans0

    • September 3, 2015

    This sign was found in a French-ish restaurant in St. Paul called Salut. The veracity of the story cannot be confirmed, but it seems like a good warning to our vegan friends: never try steak.  For those who can’t zoom in, the poster reads: “One of France’s leading Marxist vegans, Prof. Jacqueline Demachelier contended that

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  • Why Is Everyone’s Stomach Hurting?

    Why Is Everyone’s Stomach Hurting?1

    • September 2, 2015

    Food sensitivities abound, the colonoscopy business is thriving, and your buddy just gave up beer because it gives him abdominal pain. Seriously, what’s going on?!? The increased incidence of allergies and food sensitivities is mainly confined to industrialized countries. According to the CDC, “food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that

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  • The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense

    The Overused “Teacher Bashing” Defense0

    • September 2, 2015

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  • Mechanizing and Destroying

    Mechanizing and Destroying0

    • September 2, 2015

    Over at First Things, Peter J. Leithart writes about the rise of industrialism and the death of masculinity. He uses Philipp Blom’s books Fracture and The Vertigo Years as the core for his discussion. For 21st century man, we have grown up in a world of industrialism and ever-increasing technology. We don’t know anything different

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  • Houston, Do We Have a System Problem?

    Houston, Do We Have a System Problem?0

    • September 2, 2015

    How does a society know when it’s time for a new system? To approach an answer to that question, let’s start with a working definition of a system. Basically, a system is a group of interrelated activities or concepts that form a whole, or, have a common goal. There are natural systems such as the

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  • Forget Perfecting Humans, Let’s Just Replace Them

    Forget Perfecting Humans, Let’s Just Replace Them0

    Aldous Huxley famously opens Brave New World with a tour of a human hatchery wherein embryos are conditioned to be a part of certain classes of people, designed for specific tasks. Here’s a tease: ‘Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last,’ continued Mr. Foster, ‘out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into

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  • Can You Be Certain That Climate Change Is Caused by Man?

    Can You Be Certain That Climate Change Is Caused by Man?0

    • September 2, 2015

    Last September, while in Alaska, President Obama re-emphasized the need to counteract the effects of climate change: “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now. We’re not acting fast enough. I have come here today, as the leader of the world’s largest economy and its second-largest emitter, to

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