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  • Four Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public

    Four Things to Expect as the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Goes Public0

    After a month of closed hearings, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is slated to hold public impeachment hearings Wednesday and Friday. The committee, under Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will hear testimony from three witnesses regarding President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Democrats seek to find out whether

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  • Federalizing Day Care Is a Terrible Idea

    Federalizing Day Care Is a Terrible Idea0

    Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has unveiled a proposal to centrally plan the family by expanding the school day. She claims that, “aligning school and work schedules is an economic growth and child development strategy.” It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the economy and the proper role of the state in it. Kara Voght, writing for Mother

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  • The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation

    The Exploitative Reality of Surrogacy and Egg Donation0

    Over the last two years, I noticed my Facebook and Instagram feeds filling with ads urging me to donate my eggs or to become a surrogate. At first I laughed it off. But the more ads I saw, the more concerned and uncomfortable I felt. So, I started a small experiment. Every time I saw

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  • Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World

    Lettuce Pray: Climate Change, Neo-Paganism, and the End of the World0

    The climate change movement has become the “modern world’s secular religion,” declared Wall Street Journal columnist Gerard Baker recently. Climate activists preach a gospel of conservation that aims to redeem humanity’s environmental sins. They counsel us to abstain from eating meat to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and prophesy that Earth will perish unless governments worldwide trust the oracle from whom we

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  • Journalism’s Uncomfortable Marriage to Non-Monogamy

    Journalism’s Uncomfortable Marriage to Non-Monogamy0

    If the pace of change over the last few decades to reinvent marriage hasn’t left you gasping for air, take a deep breath now. Here comes the next leg in the race to deinstitutionalize the meaning of marriage: consensual non-monogamy (CNM), where two individuals ostensibly consent to open their relationship to other sexual and emotional

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  • Does Hillary Clinton Want Fact-Checking… or Censorship?

    Does Hillary Clinton Want Fact-Checking… or Censorship?0

    Recently Hillary Clinton blasted Facebook, Tweeting: Facebook’s decision to allow false information in political advertisements is appalling.   Voters are being confronted by millions of pieces of misinformation.   A world where up is down and down is up is a world where democracy can’t thrive. Other Democrats joined in. Virginia Senator Mark Warner said: “Facebook’s

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