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  • Is ‘Black Lives Matter’ Compatible With the American Tradition?

    Is ‘Black Lives Matter’ Compatible With the American Tradition?0

    Although they operate under the banner of social justice, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its allies are a pernicious force. The false narratives, the toleration of lawlessness, and the punishment of dissenters have left our society in disarray. Americans of all races and political stripes should reject these tactics. The problems with BLM

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  • Hey, Hey. Ho, Ho. The New Order of ‘Peaceful Protests’ Has Got to Go.

    Hey, Hey. Ho, Ho. The New Order of ‘Peaceful Protests’ Has Got to Go.0

    Another day, another video of “peaceful protesters” engaging in violent behavior. This time, the place is Portland, the victim a young man beaten repeatedly despite his plea that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. The images are disturbing, to say the least. Even if the man was intentionally trying to hurt protesters – which early

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  • Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hope in Our Age of Anxiety

    Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hope in Our Age of Anxiety0

    Recently a friend who works as an editor for a large homeschool company told me his supervisors had temporarily assigned him to the admissions department. “In June,” he explained, “our enrollments were up 35 percent, in July they were up 100 percent over the previous July, and now it’s mid-August and we’ve already broken that

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  • When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back

    When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back0

    The separateness in New York, and by extension much of the nation curled around it from America’s eastern edge, stands out. There are the hyper-wealthy and there are the multi-generational poor. They depend on each other, but with COVID who needs who more has changed. It’s easy to stress how far apart the rich and

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  • Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government

    Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government0

    Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” That baseball team of words should continue to terrify us. When we look at government failures in the last 50 years, the list

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  • Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court

    Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court0

    Peter Vlaming has two great passions – teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce

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  • Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me

    Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me0

    In my tenth grade English class, just like many other American students, I read some of the works of the late Joseph Conrad, an unbounded explorer and captivating writer. But my class did not analyze Conrad’s books as my father or grandfather did when they were my age. Instead of discussing how his works shaped

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  • Andrew Cuomo’s DNC Speech Was a Travesty of Errors

    Andrew Cuomo’s DNC Speech Was a Travesty of Errors0

    Many political speeches are full of imprecise rhetoric and easily disproven statements. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s speech to the Democratic National Convention Monday night is one such speech. Here are six of the governor’s statements, dissected for your morbid reading pleasure. Number One “New Yorkers were ground zero for the COVID virus and have gone from

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  • What Will Not Recover: Government

    What Will Not Recover: Government0

    What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this is a chilling question, even a taboo topic. The reputation of government was already at postwar lows before the lockdowns, with only 17 percent of the American public saying that they trusted government to do

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