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  • Harvard’s Unjust Crusade Against Homeschooling Continues

    Harvard’s Unjust Crusade Against Homeschooling Continues0

    Harvard University publications continue to present a skewed perspective of homeschooling, spotlighting Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet’s call for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling while failing to provide an accurate picture of American homeschooling. In addition to the recent Harvard Magazine article on “The Risks of Homeschooling,” both the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard

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  • Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening

    Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening0

    America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor

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  • The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea

    The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea0

    Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020,

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  • NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths

    NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths0

    On May 7, I wrote about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial policy of prohibiting eldercare facilities from screening recently discharged hospital patients for COVID-19. The order, passed by New York’s Department of Health on March 25, stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed

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  • My Egg Donor Went to Harvard. Did Yours?

    My Egg Donor Went to Harvard. Did Yours?0

    A feature in the Harvard Crimson, the university’s undergraduate newspaper, gives a fascinating anecdotal picture of the sperm and egg donation industry on the fringes of Ivy League campuses. Parents who want smart kids. It opens with an interview with a 41-year-old Vancouver woman, Shannon Copeland, who was unable to have a child in her

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  • Killing Philosophy While Hungering for Meaning

    Killing Philosophy While Hungering for Meaning0

    Liberty University recently announced that it is ending its B.A. in Philosophy program. The university’s press release cited declining enrollment – employing five full-time professors to serve only 20 philosophy majors simply isn’t sustainable – as its reason for the cut, while promising that its students would still receive a rigorous philosophical education through Liberty’s core curriculum.

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  • Is Religious Liberty Essential for America?

    Is Religious Liberty Essential for America?0

    Perplexing questions are the name of the game over the past several months. Does social distancing really work? Do masks prevent the spread of the virus? Is it safe to visit elderly relatives? Do we have to worry about spreading the virus while outside? To say that there’s a lot of confusion and concern would

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  • Shock Poll: Parents ‘More Likely’ to Homeschool Post-COVID

    Shock Poll: Parents ‘More Likely’ to Homeschool Post-COVID0

    It seems a bomb has been detonated in America’s education sector. Oh sure, there have been explosions going off the last few months as people try to adjust to alternative schooling. It’s only now, however, that we are beginning to realize how earth-shaking those explosions have really been. A new poll was released by RealClear

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  • Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care

    Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care0

    “Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus pandemic spread. We were prepared for a rise in COVID-19 patients, but we didn’t expect the sharp decline we saw in everyday cases. Our emergency department visits fell by half in early April, a time

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