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Good News: Some Reasons to Celebrate the New Year 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2020
Let’s jump into 2020 by looking at some good news. In The Spectator, Matt Ridley reports we’ve just had the best decade in human history. He kicks off his article with this paragraph: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in
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Biden: Put the Energy and Insurance Executives in Jail 0
- January 2, 2020
Presidential candidate Joe Biden is calling for jailing energy executives. On Sunday, he called for first “doing away with any substance for fossil fuels.” After that, he said, fossil fuel executives need to be held “liable for what they have done,” especially to “underserved neighborhoods.” Then, “when they don’t want to deliver, put them in jail.
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2019 Was a Bad Year for ‘Only Cops Should Have Guns’0
- Culture
- January 2, 2020
On December 29, an armed gunman entered the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas and shot two members of the congregation. Within six seconds, a third member of the congregation drew a weapon and shot the gunman dead. The events were captured on live-streamed video, with the dramatic events – in the minds of many observers – highlighting
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Why Americans Fear Trial by Jury 0
- Politics
- December 31, 2019
Everyone on both left and right these days is demanding rights – but not the earliest and most important one, the historic right to trial by a jury of one’s peers. Today, over 90 percent of American defendants waive that right in favor of a prosecutor’s proposed plea bargain, because, as Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz notes
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Marilyn Monroe and the Mother Goddess 0
- December 31, 2019
At present I’m researching a project about Marilyn Monroe, and to get it right, I’m not only reading the biographies but watching the films in which she appeared. Try as she might, the poor woman had a very limited range as an actress and was never cast in a role other than that of the
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Disney’s Journey Toward the Dark Side Is Complete 1
- Culture
- December 31, 2019
Note: Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t seen “The Rise of Skywalker” When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they quickly made their intentions for the universe as a whole very clear. A new Star Wars film every two to three years and further adventures into television as well. Great news right? Then a monumental change came in
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California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work 0
- Economics
- December 31, 2019
If there’s one thing the California government is good for these days, it’s failing to address crises that glaringly exist while creating new crises that shouldn’t exist – and then shifting the blame when everything goes wrong. A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation hurting the
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Breaking a Bad Habit Starts With Silence 0
- Culture
- December 31, 2019
If your New Year’s resolutions include breaking a bad habit, the odds are stacked against you. According to habits expert James Clear, “depending on where you get your numbers, somewhere between 81 percent and 92 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail.” I won’t promise you a simple fix to break a habit. I do want to
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Six Reasons for Optimism in 2020 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2019
“The 2010s have been the best decade ever. The evidence is overwhelming.” Those are the words of Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg, penned in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Norberg’s words seem hyperbolic at first glance, but he may be right. In many ways, the world is getting better every day, and
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