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  • You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted

    You Can’t Learn From a History That’s Been Deleted0

    The “memory hole” is one of the most haunting images in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Used by government workers at the Ministry of Truth, this chute in the wall enabled Oceania’s one-party government to edit history at will and incinerate all evidence of their propagandistic deeds: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified,

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  • Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’

    Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’0

    Imagine a white male carrying an American flag, wearing a Trump t-shirt, and accessorizing with a MAGA hat. Now imagine him looking at a wall of pictures memorializing various black individuals killed by police – and imagine him doing so within Seattle’s newly established autonomous zone, CHOP. If you think that sounds like a recipe

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  • Study: COVID Lockdowns Crushed Minority-Owned Businesses the Most

    Study: COVID Lockdowns Crushed Minority-Owned Businesses the Most0

    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, minorities have disproportionately suffered from the virus’s health effects. A new study reveals that the government-mandated economic lockdowns have also hit minorities hardest. In response to the outbreak and under the guidance of federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control, state and local governments imposed quarantine

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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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