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Are We Too Paranoid About Mass Shootings?0
- Culture
- October 22, 2019
Many Americans worry about when – not if – another mass shooting will occur, and a Gallup poll from September found that nearly half of Americans fear being a victim of one of these attacks. After the film “Joker” was released, you could see these fears play out. Many announced they wouldn’t see it in
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Three Women in the History of Economic Thought0
- Economics
- October 21, 2019
In a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, Sir Isaac Newton wrote his memorable remark: “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Shedding light on the accumulative nature of scientific progress, Newton knew his ability to formulate the laws of motion and universal gravitation depended on the discoveries made by those
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LeBron James Echoes the American Olympic Officials Who Appeased Hitler0
- Culture
- October 21, 2019
LeBron James supports the totalitarians in China. James believes Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey “was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation,” when he tweeted support of those fighting for civil liberties in Hong Kong. James chastised Morey: There are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others,
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How We Colored Our Public Squares Red0
- Culture
- October 21, 2019
Reports tell us that church attendance among Americans is falling. I am acquainted with secular professors who apparently have learned nothing from the experiences of atheistic social experiments in the last century. Social experiments, I say, and not societies, because such monstrosities as Soviet Russia and Red China were never social enough to raise the human
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Chicago Teachers’ Strike Shows Why We Don’t Need Public Schools0
- Education
- October 21, 2019
As the Chicago teachers’ strike continues with no end in sight, 300,000 students spend another day outside of the public school classroom. Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, says this is damaging to children. “We need to get our kids back in school,” the mayor said Thursday, CNN reports. “Every day we are out, that hurts our
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California’s War on Citizenship0
- Politics
- October 21, 2019
California – a one-party state dominated by progressives – has become the model for where progressivism will go when completely unchecked. Now, even the basic concept of citizenship is under full-blown assault as the state has moved on from being a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants to outright insisting that noncitizens have the same access to the levers of power
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State Capitalism is a Lie: China is Thriving Because of the Private Sector0
- Economics
- October 18, 2019
A working paper from the World Economic Forum released earlier this year stated: China’s private sector — which has been revving up since the global financial crisis — is now serving as the main driver of China’s economic growth. The combination of numbers 60/70/80/90 are frequently used to describe the private sector’s contribution to the
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Has Science Discovered a Cure for Obesity?0
- Culture
- October 18, 2019
Life expectancy is falling in America, and the obesity epidemic is one of the causes. We’ve all heard alarming stories and seen the evidence. An astonishing “two-thirds of adults,” and “nearly 30% of children are overweight or obese.” Obesity-related illness is costing America “$190.2 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States.” Adult-onset diabetes is
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Climate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless0
- Politics
- October 18, 2019
At a recent United Nations summit, 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg claimed that the Earth is on the brink of destruction and that older generations are betraying younger ones by not doing enough to stop climate change. The media has amplified these allegations by giving her speech broad, glowing coverage, but the fears she expressed are not grounded in reality.
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