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  • Taking the First Step to Restore Civility

    Taking the First Step to Restore Civility0

    I learned another life lesson from my friend the UPS man the other day. He stopped by with a couple of packages, and in response to my query informed me that yes, the delivery industry was still in Christmas mode, COVID-19 having turned the year into one long, exhausting holiday season. Given the intense nature

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  • Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car

    Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car2

    The Washington Post recently reported that California will cease to allow the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. This act of government overreach comes not through a legislative act by the state’s elected representatives in the House and Senate, but by decree of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board

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  • History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past

    History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past0

    History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the dignity of facts with every correction appended to the bottom of their stories. Yet over the last year, the editors of The New York Times’ and Pulitzer Center’s 1619 Project

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  • Three Ways a 6-3 Supreme Court Would Be Different

    Three Ways a 6-3 Supreme Court Would Be Different0

    If the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is replaced this year, the Supreme Court will become something the country has not seen since the justices became a dominant force in American cultural life after World War II: a decidedly conservative court. A court with a 6-3 conservative majority would be a dramatic shift from the

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  • New Report Shows How Congress Has Screwed Over Young People

    New Report Shows How Congress Has Screwed Over Young People0

    We already knew that the budget deficit will hit a record-breaking $3.3 trillion this year as the federal government continues to run up debt in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Yet a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that we aren’t just facing a short-term spike in deficits. We’re on an

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  • Like the Soviets, Black Lives Matter Purges Its History

    Like the Soviets, Black Lives Matter Purges Its History0

    The Black Lives Matter organizations that swiftly captured the nation’s attention have expeditiously and quietly been softening their rhetoric and removing the most un-American statements from their websites. This is because the millions poised to agree with the slogan Black Lives Matter began distancing themselves from these organizations as their true intentions came to light.

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  • Judge Compares Pennsylvania COVID Restrictions to Communist China

    Judge Compares Pennsylvania COVID Restrictions to Communist China0

    A friend of mine owns a convenience store in suburban Philadelphia. Refusing to wear a mask, he allows his customers to decide whether or not they want to do the same. Recently, a woman entered his store claiming to be from the health department. She demanded that everyone wear a mask, that he and his

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  • Getting Rid of Critical Race Theory Once and for All

    Getting Rid of Critical Race Theory Once and for All0

    A reader of Intellectual Takeout, bookbinder and Tennessean Ed Stansell, recently shared these thoughts in an email: I was recently joking with a friend about his efforts not paying off.  I asked him why he was having difficulties considering white privilege.  His reply was ‘I’m afraid my privilege doesn’t match my whiteness.’ You may have had

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  • What the Response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Says About America’s Future

    What the Response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Says About America’s Future0

    “Burn it all down.” “Civility is dead.” That is how leading political voices have been responding to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87 since it was announced on Friday. Others have voiced concern that America’s social fabric – already frayed by the presidential election, the pandemic, the lockdowns, and the riots – may

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