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  • Let’s Defund Our Universities

    Let’s Defund Our Universities22

    We hear much these days about defunding the police force, about cutting budgets or taking chunks of the public money allotted to our men and women in blue and giving it to social workers and inner-city projects. Here’s a better idea. Let’s defund our colleges and universities. Let’s cut their funding to the bone. I

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  • CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias

    CHAZ Holds a Record for Marxist Utopias0

    One of the more amusing spectacles of the recent protests has been the establishment of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) – now called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) – in the middle of downtown Seattle, Washington. Conservatives on social media have had a field day making light of the pint-sized experiment in neo-Marxist

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  • White Privilege and the Real Slavery Record

    White Privilege and the Real Slavery Record0

    America’s knowledge of history is dead. Former vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine killed it on the Senate floor during a speech Tuesday. “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody we created it,” Kaine said. “It got created by the Virginia general assembly and the legislatures of other states. It got created by the court systems

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  • The Control Freaks in Our Midst

    The Control Freaks in Our Midst0

    The story of Jesus feeding some 5,000 people, as told in the books of Matthew and John, is well known throughout the world. It goes like this: As a large and hungry crowd gathers to hear Jesus, his disciples nervously ask him how so many people can be fed. The only food in their midst

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  • Kangaroo Court Nation

    Kangaroo Court Nation0

    The premise behind much of the protesting we hear in our time from women, African Americans, gays, and other groups granted the special status of being in the minority (how that applies to women, who make up more than half of the population, is hard to see), is that they are to be believed when

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  • History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline

    History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline0

    A few days ago, it was revealed that American happiness had taken a historic plunge. Measuring numbers against the last 50 years, researchers from NORC at the University of Chicago announced that only 14 percent of Americans report being “very happy.” This is a “17 percentage-point drop since 2018,” the organization reported. Many Americans likely

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  • Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis

    Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis0

    America is on fire. Protestors are burning flags. Rioters are burning cars. And people are metaphorically burning bridges, rendering it impossible to speak across the chasm of political difference. It’s time to pause in burning down our national house. As the Talking Heads warn in their iconic song, “Watch out. You might get what you

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  • Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine

    Special Interests Could Be Delaying a COVID-19 Vaccine15

    At the time of peak lockdown, nearly 94 percent of the U.S. population was placed under stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. Currently, every state is working toward ending, or already has ended, their stay-at-home measures. Lifting the lockdown has provided many benefits. Foremost, the U.S. economy climbed out of a severe downturn,

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  • OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel

    OSU Coach Censured for Choice of News Channel0

    Mike Gundy, the head coach of Oklahoma State University’s football team, is in hot water. His crime? Wearing a One America News Network (OAN) branded t-shirt while out fishing. This sparked the ire of Gundy’s star running back Chuba Hubbard. In response to the photo of Gundy’s fishing haul, Hubbard tweeted, “I will not stand for this..

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