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Three Athletes Take a Stand Instead of a Knee0
- Culture
- August 12, 2020
With the Black Lives Matter movement quickly becoming the cause du jour after George Floyd’s death, the case of athletes kneeling during America’s national anthem went from being a high-profile, but rather uncommon action (which the National Football League banned in 2018 before an about face this year) to being so common among millionaire athletes as to be practically meaningless.
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BBC: Sweden’s Economy Is Trouncing the EU During COVID0
- Economics
- August 12, 2020
In July, The New York Times claimed that Sweden had made a grave mistake by not imposing a government lockdown as other nations did. “[Sweden’s] decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States
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‘Please Have Children,’ an Expert Researcher Warns0
- Culture
- August 12, 2020
An expert New Zealand researcher is warning women to “please have children” as, mirroring other Western nations, New Zealand’s fertility rate reaches an all-time low. The country’s total fertility rate is now 1.71 children per woman, well below the population replacement level of 2.1. Increasingly, greater numbers of researchers are acknowledging the grave problems associated
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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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