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  • Artwork Made From Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective

    Artwork Made From Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective0

    Last week, Miami art gallery Art Basel sold, for $120,000, a piece of art composed of a banana duct taped to a wall. At least one other identical piece sold for a similar amount. A third piece was priced at $150,000. The banana used in the display is a real banana, and on Saturday, a

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  • Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba

    Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba0

    When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for

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  • Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough

    Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough0

    Stop. No, that’s not enough. To paraphrase “the girl” in Hemingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Would you please please please please please please please stop?” Second-graders at a swimming pool should not be placed in an adult changing room. Anyone with a grain of sense understands this concept. In Asheville, North Carolina, I used

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  • IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking

    IG’s Report Is Just Another Opportunity for Partisan Cherry-Picking0

    Our two national parties had great expectations about the findings of the Department of Justice’s Inspector General concerning the surveillance operation carried out by the FBI against Donald Trump’s campaign staff. What came out of this newly released report won’t fully satisfy either side. The Democrats were hoping that Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report would

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  • House Democrats Propose to Impeach Trump for Abuse of Power, Obstructing Congress

    House Democrats Propose to Impeach Trump for Abuse of Power, Obstructing Congress0

    After a two-month investigation, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they have drafted articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on broad charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  The vague “abuse of power” charge follows comes after hours of hearings in which House Democrats used criminal terms such as “bribery” and “extortion” to

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  • Defense Industry Gives More To Bernie Than Any 2020 Candidate

    Defense Industry Gives More To Bernie Than Any 2020 Candidate0

    Despite his frequent votes against defense bills, Senator Bernie Sanders has collected more presidential campaign contributions from defense industry sources than any other candidate, including Donald Trump. That’s according to data on 2020 funding at the OpenSecrets.org website, which is sponsored by the Center for Responsive Politics. As of early December, Sanders had out-collected Trump $172,803 to $148,218 in defense industry

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  • When Communists Abolished the Weekend

    When Communists Abolished the Weekend0

    Anti-capitalists on both left and right tell us that “capitalism” is destroying the weekend. The conservatives insist we need laws to punish people who try to sell things on Sunday. Leftists insist “unbridled capitalism” is destroying the weekend, which “lets us cultivate the seeds of civil society…” But it’s not capitalism that’s doing this dirty work. The decline of

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  • What Mark Ruffalo Doesn’t Know About Socialist Movies

    What Mark Ruffalo Doesn’t Know About Socialist Movies0

    Actor Mark Ruffalo wants us to believe that “Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future.”  Profound hypocrisy and ignorance are behind Ruffalo’s tweet. Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty and disease. Ruffalo has become a wealthy entertainer because of America’s economic and artistic freedom. Author Peter Schiff exposed

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  • The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones

    The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones0

    How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays.

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