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Why We Cook0
- Culture
- September 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has given Americans an unexpected amount of unstructured, home-based leisure time. Prohibited from attending our favorite sporting events, concerts, fireworks shows, and even traditional school, the need for something to fill that time grows as the days stretch into weeks and months. New hobbies are proliferating as people find new ways to connect and
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Why an Independent Poll Shows Trump Winning in 20200
- Politics
- September 14, 2020
The latest poll by Democracy Institute (DI), a nonpartisan polling firm that accurately predicted Brexit and the 2016 U.S. election, shows President Donald Trump pulling ahead of Joe Biden and winning the Electoral College with 319 votes. The DI poll found that Trump leads Biden by 3 percentage points on the national stage, 48 to 45. In swing states,
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Private Gym Owners Infuriated to Learn Government Gyms Stayed Open0
- Politics
- September 14, 2020
For months, most gyms in San Francisco have been closed, the result of a city order preventing them from opening their doors as a public safety measure during the COVID-19 pandemic. But not all gyms. It was recently revealed that some gyms – city-owned ones – have been open for months, allowing city employees to
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How Radical Historian’s Revisionism and Lies Led to 2020’s Unrest0
- Education
- September 14, 2020
The war on history is about overturning America’s constitutional system. So says Mary Grabar, a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute and author of the book “Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America.” Zinn was a radical historian whose book, “A People’s History of the United States,” has
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Bringing Back Sanity0
- Culture
- September 14, 2020
On a recent trip to Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown, I at one point met with two female docents who would lead me on a tour. (I am being deliberately vague here, as I don’t want anyone to get reprimanded.) At that meeting beside the museum’s ticket desk, I asked both women if we could
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Upset About ‘Cuties’? Let’s Re-examine ‘Frozen’ First.0
- Culture
- September 11, 2020
I had seen complaints about the Netflix film Cuties floating around the internet for a while, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a glimpse of what they were talking about. Clips of the movie accompanied the Twitter trend #CancelNetflix. The film moments I saw before I hit the stop button are shocking, to
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The Media Reported on Mainstream College Marxism 30 Years Ago0
- Education
- September 11, 2020
In August 1989, Poland’s parliament did the unthinkable. The Soviet satellite state elected an anti-communist as its new prime minister. The world waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. And then it happened: nothing. When no Soviet tanks deployed to Poland to crush the rebels, political movements in other nations – first Hungary, followed
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Remembering 9/110
- History
- September 11, 2020
How much do you remember about 9/11? Almost certainly – unless you are quite young – you know the basics: Islamic terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. But do you remember how many American victims were murdered that day? In Mitchell Zuckoff’s book published last year, Fall and Rise: The
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Breaking Bad: The Church and Social Justice0
- Politics
- September 11, 2020
Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. A Sunday School teacher at the Methodist church in Boonville, North Carolina taught my class this song in the late 1950s, when our state,
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