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Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls0
- History
- October 29, 2020
The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion
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Now the Grinch Is Stealing Thanksgiving0
- Culture
- October 29, 2020
Thanksgiving holds a special place in my family. It’s the one holiday of the year when my four children, their spouses, and my platoon of grandchildren gather under one roof. The other holidays they celebrate in their own homes or with other relatives, but Thanksgiving is the time for the gathering of the Minick clan
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Islamist Terror Attack in Nice an Assault on Free World0
- International
- October 29, 2020
The barbaric terrorist attack Thursday morning in a church in the French city of Nice is a reminder that the free world is engaged in a long war against the forces of Islamist extremism and terror. A man with a knife fatally stabbed three French civilians the Notre-Dame Basilica in the center of Nice on
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Elites Make Blue-Collar Workers Into Human COVID Shields0
- Economics
- October 29, 2020
COVID-19 is a disease, and we usually treat diseases as health problems. But when a disease becomes a pandemic, it also becomes an economic problem – not just because of the economic ramifications of trying to protect people from it, but because dealing with diseases on a mass scale requires economic thinking, mostly in the
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A Biden Supporter Explains Why Trump May Win0
- Politics
- October 29, 2020
I was in Washington DC this time four years ago – a week before the 2016 election. The mood was eerie, not in the least because of all the morbid Halloween decorations. With skeletons hanging from trees, carved pumpkins on porches and fake gravestones littering front yards, the suburban vistas felt strangely like a scene
READ MORENo, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery0
- History
- October 28, 2020
Journalistic propaganda is a powerful instrument of indoctrination. Without evidence, foul ideas can easily penetrate mainstream discourse. For instance, recently it has become fashionable to posit that slavery is America’s original sin. To sensible people, this is a risible claim, because there is nothing particularly American about slavery. But revisiting the history of slavery in
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Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’0
- History
- October 28, 2020
Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, welcome to the ranks of riot-ravaged cities! Unrest is exploding once again in a major American city, this time following the death of Walter Wallace, a mentally unstable black man killed after advancing on police with a knife. Wallace’s family has pleaded with people to not riot in his name,
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Climate Scientists Targeted By Social Media Censors0
- Culture
- October 28, 2020
Before the Hunter Biden/New York Post/Twitter imbroglio blew up a little more than one week ago, one of the primary targets of social media censors and left-leaning activists was a small nonprofit operating out of Arlington, Virginia. That group is the CO2 Coalition, formed in 2015 to educate policymakers and the public about climate change
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China Already Owns the West0
- International
- October 28, 2020
As has become abundantly clear to the American sport-watching public, political movements and causes are all the rage for the multi-millionaire entertainers who play games for a living. From the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which is now so ubiquitous in sports as to not have a nominal leader, to Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher Brent Suter’s
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