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Three Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe0
- Politics
- August 11, 2020
In our summer of discontent, of protests and then riots in what many view as a racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, we’ve seen previously radical ideas such as defunding the police become the norm. Not only that, we’ve seen liberal institutions such as The New York Times
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The Truth About ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’0
- Culture
- August 11, 2020
Opening my Wall Street Journal Monday morning, I saw a color photo with the caption, “SAD ANNIVERSARY: Michael Brown Sr. released a pink dove Sunday as the family marked six years since his son, 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.” If you did not know any better, you
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How Government ‘Cures’ Drive Out Real Cures0
- Economics
- August 11, 2020
Scurvy, we all know, is a disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency. It took almost 200 years from the time a “lemon juice” cure for scurvy was discovered until it was promoted by the British government. Some think the mental biases that caused the needless deaths of millions have been eliminated in more “enlightened”
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Election Day 2020 Won’t Be Pretty0
- Culture
- August 11, 2020
As I’ve said before in print, I’m not the best of prognosticators. An early example of my failures as a crystal ball reader comes from long ago when I was a seventh-grader at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. My roommate appeared after Christmas break with an album by four Brits
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Raising Well-Adjusted Adults In Spite of the Pandemic0
- Culture
- August 10, 2020
“My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years. Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families
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Hundreds of Female Athletes Back Idaho’s Transgender Sports Ban0
- Culture
- August 10, 2020
More than 300 female athletes are speaking out in support of Idaho’s decision to protect women’s sports from biological men. Female professional, Olympic, and National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes on July 29 sent a letter to the NCAA board of governors asking it to reject calls from LGBT activists to boycott Idaho over its new
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Gov. Cuomo Is Right to Worry Wealthy New Yorkers Won’t Return0
- Economics
- August 10, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a problem. His state is looking at a $13 billion budget deficit, and New York City residents are leaving in droves. Many wealthy residents have fled to the high ends of Long Island, while many working-class New Yorkers have split for new opportunities across the country. This has resulted
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Fact-Checking Fauci0
- Politics
- August 10, 2020
In recent congressional testimony Dr. Anthony Fauci, the primary architect of the Trump administration’s COVID response, painted a bleak picture about the United States’ ability to contain the pandemic. According to Fauci’s narrative, the United States is experiencing a resurgence in regional COVID outbreaks because it failed to sufficiently lock down back in March, and
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Eviction Freezes Are Hurting the Little Guy0
- Economics
- August 10, 2020
The months of quarantine and subsequent riots have brought changes few predicted. Calls to defund the police and the lawlessness of places like Portland have sent the sale of firearms through the roof. The closure of schools and move to distance learning have many parents and students taking a hard look at education, resulting in many new
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