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9th Grade Reading Lists: 1922 vs. Today 0
- Education
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on September 2, 2016.) Have you ever thought that high school graduates today… well, just don’t seem to know or understand as much as they once did? According to a new research report from the Urban Institute, such a thought is not simply a result of generational
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Think Trump is Hitler? Go to Dachau 0
- History
- August 29, 2019
Right now, someone in the media is finding another excuse to proclaim that Trump is Hitler, America is Germany 1933, and detention centers on the southern border are concentration camps. Recently I went to Dachau, just outside of Munich, to see a real concentration camp. The first thing you notice is the irony. The people
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Income Inequality Is Not the Enemy 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
It’s easy to fall into the trap of comparisons. For myself, it can be very hard to not look at how my friends or acquaintances are doing and not feel that I’m running behind. Houses, cars, paychecks, life state – the temptation to grouse over what I think I don’t have is very strong. Money
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Biologically Male D1 Runner Switches to Women’s Team for Senior Year 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
A biologically male runner in the NCAA’s top division is competing in women’s cross country this fall. June Eastwood, who identifies as a transgender woman, will represent the University of Montana at a cross country meet Saturday. Eastwood competed on the men’s track and cross country teams through May 2018, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported. “I
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Australian Doctors Are Bullying Parents of Transgender Children 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
Parental disenfranchisement in the face of transgender juggernaut has come to Australia. In a recent article in The Weekend Australian (paywall), Bernard Lane provides a terrifying picture of parents’ despair at seeing their children swallowed up by a trans-friendly medical bureaucracy. “Parents feel new gender was a foregone agenda” relates the experience of two couples whose adolescent daughters have
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Your Money Would be Better off Burnt Than Spent on Political TV Ads 0
- Politics
- August 28, 2019
Alright, you want to make this country a better place for yourself, your children and the many generations to come. So you make a donation to a political candidate you believe will fight for a better country. But, in reality, you are wasting your money. Here’s why. Television has long been the golden goose of
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Seven Quotes That Reveal the Racist Origins of Minimum Wage Laws 0
- Economics
- August 28, 2019
Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states began 2019 with a new minimum wage. Three states have since passed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a wage floor the House of Representatives is seeking to make the law of the land. The
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No, the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters 0
- Politics
- August 28, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to hate on the Electoral College. Once again, she has the nation up in arms about America’s unique presidential election system. The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then on Friday afternoon, she doubled
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Lies, Bias, and Twisted Facts: MSNBC and Media Bias 0
- Politics
- August 28, 2019
Over my decades as a writer, I’ve seen the two faces of the media. This past April, an editor from The Epoch Times (ET) sent me an email telling me she had enjoyed my articles on Intellectual Takeout and wondered if I might talk to her about writing for ET. When we spoke by phone,
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