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  • Three Inconvenient Truths 60 Minutes Forgot About the California Wildfires

    Three Inconvenient Truths 60 Minutes Forgot About the California Wildfires0

    CBS journalist Scott Pelley recently visited Butte County, California, to report on the wildfires devastating the Golden State. Government statistics show that more than 8,300 wildfires have burned some 4 million acres to date. The flames have claimed 31 lives and destroyed nearly 8,700 structures. One of those structures belonged to Fire Station 61 Chief

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  • The Pandemic That Killed Debate

    The Pandemic That Killed Debate0

    Carl Sagan famously said, “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.” This wisdom has been sadly forsaken during the COVID19 pandemic, when one powerful narrative has taken not only the public, but the scientific community, by storm. The story is that societies cannot survive the pandemic without

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  • Keeping Company With Those We Oppose

    Keeping Company With Those We Oppose0

    After the first Biden-Trump presidential debate, one of my nephews posted on Facebook that anyone who supported President Donald Trump would no longer be a part of his life. Did this young man forget that his mother, stepfather, and sister are Trump supporters, as are several of his cousins, aunts, and uncles? Another young woman

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  • Clarence Thomas Signals Willingness to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges

    Clarence Thomas Signals Willingness to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges0

    Much attention has been devoted to the potential role a Justice Amy Coney Barrett might play in overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the nationwide legalization of abortion. Now current Justice Clarence Thomas is also raising the possibility of overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and returning the legalization of gay marriage to the states. The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision not to

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  • Why Friendships Are Falling Apart Over Politics

    Why Friendships Are Falling Apart Over Politics0

    Former Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Yet despite their obvious legal disagreements, the liberal Ginsburg once described herself and the conservative Scalia as “best buddies.” This connection across ideological lines may seem surprising today. A striking feature of the current political moment is

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  • What Is a Nation?

    What Is a Nation?0

    It often happens within societies that certain words and phrases become empty. This loss of meaning tends to happen in two ways. The first is when a society begins to use a word in such a multitude of ways that it becomes empty noise. When a word becomes used to describe everything, it no longer

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  • Socialist-Themed Vegan Meat Company Learns Marxism Works Better in Theory Than Practice

    Socialist-Themed Vegan Meat Company Learns Marxism Works Better in Theory Than Practice0

    With products like Comrade Cluck (a plant meat, not actual chicken), No Evil Foods has had success casting itself as a “revolutionary” food company that embodies progressive values. But the company is learning marketing progressive ideas is easier than implementing socialist-style economics. For months, company leaders have been resisting a unionization effort by workers at

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  • Campus Wokeness and the Evolution of Profanity

    Campus Wokeness and the Evolution of Profanity0

    Last month, the University of Southern California removed a business professor from his classroom after he said a Chinese word that is pronounced similarly to the N-word. Warning his students against using filler words during presentations, Professor Greg Patton gave examples such as “um,” “like.” and – in an effort to be inclusive of Chinese students – ne

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  • Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size

    Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size0

    Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, has seven children. Unless you have been living under a rock, you already knew that. All the media coverage of her nomination, which was announced on September 26, devoted extensive attention to this fact. If a poll were to be taken, no doubt more Americans would

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