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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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  • A Time of Deceit: Can Freedom of Speech Endure?

    A Time of Deceit: Can Freedom of Speech Endure?1

    In my teaching days, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World appeared frequently on my classroom reading lists. Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian Big Brother government competed in my mind with Huxley’s dystopian view of a “happy” dictatorship controlled by technology and drugs, and I finally concluded Brave New World

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  • Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day

    Why We Must Reclaim Armistice Day0

    Once upon a time a self-styled progressive American president who had only just won re-election on the slogan “he kept us out of war,” led the U.S. into the midst of the bloodiest worldwide conflict in history. Europeans dubbed it the Great War. Americans today remember it as World War One, and recall it as

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  • When Guests Come In, Your TV Should Go Off

    When Guests Come In, Your TV Should Go Off0

    Who leaves their TV on when hosting guests? The answer should be “no one.” Unfortunately, in real life the answer is “lots of people.” I have lost count of how often I’ve arrived at someone’s home as an invited guest while they were watching TV. Common courtesy suggests that the TV set should be switched

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  • Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say

    Socialism All About Inclusivity and Kindness, These Students Say0

    The word “socialism” has left behind its past of breadlines and beatings and has come to mean something like “kindness” for some students at Georgetown University, The Daily Signal found in campus interviews.  Many millennials would agree with the positive feelings these university students have for socialism.  According to a new YouGov survey commissioned by the Victims

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