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  • Americans No Longer Live Up to the Hidden Messages on Their Coins

    Americans No Longer Live Up to the Hidden Messages on Their Coins0

    Old coins are one of the closest things we have to buried treasure these days. There’s a thrill in finding something rare and valuable. I experienced that thrill every time I found a wheat penny in the jug of coins I sorted through one hot summer afternoon as a 10-year-old. My sister likely had a

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  • Small Business Fills Mask Vacuum

    Small Business Fills Mask Vacuum0

    On March 31, President Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce told the nation that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could die as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As state officials attempt to deal with this realization, taking measures that would eventually lessen the regulatory burden keeping hospitals and healthcare clinics from expanding, private citizens everywhere use

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  • Good Bureaucrats of Good Friday

    Good Bureaucrats of Good Friday0

    Thus spoke Nietzsche: “Must I add that, in the whole New Testament, there appears but a solitary figure worthy of honor? Pilate, the Roman viceroy. To regard a Jewish imbroglio seriously—that was quite beyond him.… The noble scorn of a Roman, before whom the word truth was shamelessly mishandled, enriched the New Testament with the

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  • Fear and Freedom Are Always Enemies

    Fear and Freedom Are Always Enemies0

    The motto of the state of Virginia is Sic Semper Tyrannis, or “Thus always to tyrants.” The great seal of this state depicts a prostrate tyrant under the heel of Virtus, the goddess of virtue. Given our present situation, I propose we adapt a new motto and seal: a pen-waving politician crushing Virtus with the words Sic

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  • California Governor Working to Give More Coronavirus Aid to Illegal Aliens

    California Governor Working to Give More Coronavirus Aid to Illegal Aliens2

    Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is actively considering a proposal to establish a relief fund for illegal aliens who are not covered by the stimulus package passed by Congress. Newsom on Tuesday confirmed that he is working with Democrats in the California state Legislature on a “Disaster Relief Fund” for illegal aliens, according to The Associated Press. Such a

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  • Bernie Sanders’ Long Game Is Just Beginning

    Bernie Sanders’ Long Game Is Just Beginning0

    The withdrawal of Sen. Bernie Sanders from the Democratic primary left former Vice President Joe Biden as the only major candidate left in the race. As such, he is the presumptive 2020 Democrat presidential nominee for 2020. “I wish I could give you better news, but I think you know the truth,” Sanders said in his

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  • The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments

    The Politicization of COVID-19 Treatments0

    The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Worried Medicaid patients in an urban emergency room are reportedly asking doctors for “dat Klorokine pill.” Meanwhile, highly educated persons are quoting media reports that HCQ is very dangerous because it can trigger fatal heart rhythms. Governors and

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  • The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist

    The Old Left Wasn’t Very Leftist2

    While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In How Fascism Works by Yale Philosophy Professor Jason Stanley, and in

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  • Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss

    Stop the Hysteria on COVID-19 Learning Loss0

    More than one billion students around the world are currently missing school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several US states have already canceled school for the remainder of the academic year, turning to online learning when possible, and other states are likely to extend their school closures soon. Some educationists panic about learning loss while

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