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  • Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

    Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’0

    Time Magazine has announced that this year’s Person of the Year award will go to the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. The Swedish school-girl-turned-eco-activist has become the poster-girl of the climate change-turned-emergency worldwide. The choice was not surprising, given the media adulation for the girl who has traveled the globe with a minimal carbon footprint. Time has long abandoned

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  • The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial

    The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial0

    Christianity Today‘s recent editorial calling for Trump’s impeachment has caused quite a buzz in the national news. But the editorial, which takes on Trump on the grounds that he is “morally confused,” is itself morally – and logically – confused.   There are two separate issues in the prominent evangelical magazine’s editorial which the editors hopelessly

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  • Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 2019

    Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 20190

    San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a

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  • A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA

    A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA0

    Dear Uncle Dan,   I hope you are well and still making friends. I’m sorry to hear the parole board turned you down, but there’s always next time. While shopping for Christmas, I ran into your ex, and Vera’s crude remarks tell me communication with her is a no-go. (She’s still bitter about your entanglement

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  • Up In Arms: The Battle Over Guns in Virginia

    Up In Arms: The Battle Over Guns in Virginia0

    Political war clouds are gathering over the Commonwealth of Virginia. This past November, when the Democrats captured both chambers of Virginia’s legislature, Democratic State Senator Dick Saslaw introduced a bill for the 2020 session, SB16, which would more strictly regulate the purchase of firearms and ammunition, and would include “red flag” laws allowing authorities to

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  • Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies

    Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies0

    The staff at Intellectual Takeout and the Charlemagne Institute participated in a highly non-scientific poll to crown our favorite Christmas movies as we prepare for Christ’s coming this Advent. More than a dozen movies were listed in our staff’s top three picks for movies to get cozy with during Christmastime, but five stood aloft from

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