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  • The Postal Service Bleeds Cash in the New Year

    The Postal Service Bleeds Cash in the New Year0

    As 2020 kicks off, the gift-giving season already feels like it was eons ago. But to the beleaguered and overextended United States Postal Service (USPS), the frantic pace of holiday shipping will continue well into January.  Thanks to increasingly generous, “no questions asked” returns policies by leading e-commerce sellers, an astounding one third of shipped packages

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  • The 2010s: A Decade of Disappearing Youth in America

    The 2010s: A Decade of Disappearing Youth in America0

    As we enter the 2020s, the world has become increasingly cognizant of the need for more babies after a decade of worryingly low growth. In the United States the population grew by only 0.48 percent between 2018 and 2019, according to newly released Census Bureau estimates.  That is the lowest annual growth rate since 1918. In fact, according to analysis

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  • Should “They” Really Be the Word of the Decade?

    Should “They” Really Be the Word of the Decade?0

    By now we have all gotten used to the annual year-end designation of the “word of the year.” I did not know, until the holiday break, that there was also a “word of the decade.” But there I was watching a football game, and on the news tape running at the bottom of the screen

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  • Make No Bones About Iran

    Make No Bones About Iran0

    Otto von Bismarck famously declared the Balkans weren’t worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. He knew that fractious, feuding part of Europe would soak up as much blood as the Germans cared to spill. Because Bismarck’s successors forgot his wisdom, the Balkans ended up claiming the bones of millions, in what was naively

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  • Killing Soleimani Was Just – Now Let’s Get Out

    Killing Soleimani Was Just – Now Let’s Get Out0

    The heightened risk of the outbreak of another war in the Middle East should serve as a reminder that the U.S. military has no business being in that conflict-prone region. President Trump should honor his campaign promise to avoid unnecessary foreign wars by withdrawing the remaining U.S. troops from Iraq as soon as possible. At

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  • Why Iraq Is Much Worse Than ‘Trump’s Benghazi’

    Why Iraq Is Much Worse Than ‘Trump’s Benghazi’0

    “The anti-Benghazi!” President Donald Trump replied after liberals referred to the storming of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad as his Benghazi, referencing the assault on the American consulate in Libya under the previous administration. Trump, supporters maintained, did not hesitate to repel the attack. In fact, in breaking news Wednesday night it was reported that the U.S.

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  • What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery

    What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery0

    One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the

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  • A Note to Politicians: What Average Americans Want

    A Note to Politicians: What Average Americans Want0

    On New Year’s Eve, four of my siblings, their spouses, and I gathered at my sister’s house in Asheville, North Carolina. A table covered with side dishes and hors d’oeuvres, wonderful conversations and reminiscences, and glasses raised at midnight: it was a memorable New Year’s Eve party. The party continued the next morning with more

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  • A Manhattan Whole Foods’ Homeless ‘Policy’ Endangers Others

    A Manhattan Whole Foods’ Homeless ‘Policy’ Endangers Others0

    The degradation of human life in major American cities astonishes and alarms. In San Francisco, the homeless defecate in the streets and supermarkets. In New York, violent attacks on orthodox Jews by a small minority of black anti-Semites seem to be almost daily occurrences. What follows is yet another astonishing story. It involves a major corporation, not “progressive” government

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