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News You Can’t Abuse 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2020
News sources on the political Left, like The New York Times, claim that climate change is responsible for the fires in the West. Those on the Right, like The Epoch Times, say arsonists lit the matches that set off the tinderboxes left by decades of mistaken environmentalist policies, like bans on commercial logging. The media
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It Seems That Millennials Are More Willing to Commit 0
- Culture
- September 22, 2020
While millennials have been widely hailed as selfish, entitled, unreliable and snowflake-like to say the least (Time magazine once labelled them the “me me me generation”), it turns out they just might be the next generation to want to stay in a job for life and store money under the mattress for a rainy day
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The Military’s Secret to Fighting COVID-19 0
- Politics
- September 21, 2020
A week or so ago, while driving home from the coffee shop, I heard a newscaster report that the Pentagon had announced a seventh member of the military had died from the COVID-19 virus. I was stunned, certain that this number was wrong. Surely it must be much higher. On arriving home, I hit my
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Edward Snowden Deserves a Pardon 0
- International
- September 21, 2020
The global spotlight was cast upon Edward Snowden in 2013 after he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless domestic surveillance programs. Working with The Guardian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden famously (or infamously, depending on one’s point of view) revealed that the NSA was illegally gathering information on tens
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Can Trump and McConnell Fill a Supreme Court Seat in Six Weeks?0
- Politics
- September 21, 2020
United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, thrusting the acrimonious struggle for control of the Supreme Court into public view. President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have already vowed to nominate and confirm a replacement for the 87-year-old justice and women’s rights icon. This contradicts the justification the
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Black Lives Matter Linked to 91% of Riots Over Three Months 0
- Culture
- September 21, 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement is linked to more than 9 in 10 riots across the country, according to a recent study. The U.S. experienced 637 riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91 percent of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint
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America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy 0
- Literature
- September 21, 2020
America is entangled in a net of its government’s own making, one which blocks innovation, tramples individual rights, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars. This cursed net goes by one name: bureaucracy. At the beginning of the 19th century, the U.S. federal government had just five departments: State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Post Office, the last
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Why Biden May Win 0
- Politics
- September 18, 2020
Last week the Cotto-Gottfried podcast interviewed New York financier and widely read blogger Adam Townsend. He strongly believes Biden will win the presidential race. Townsend did not seem to relish his analysis and kept returning to this desperate defense of the president: “For all his faults, only Trump will take on the mega-corporations.” Nonetheless, he
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What Kind of School Will Help Your Kids To Be Happily Married?0
- Education
- September 18, 2020
The debate over the merits of private schools versus public schools tends to revolve around their relative success in boosting test scores, graduation rates, and college admissions. Which are more successful in giving children the skills they need to thrive in today’s economy? Utilitarian questions like these frame most contemporary discussions of the value of
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