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Effort to Abandon Electoral College Gains Steam. Here’s What It Would Ruin for America.0
- Politics
- February 28, 2019
Colorado is joining a list of states attempting to overturn the way Americans have selected their presidents for over two centuries. The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill to join an interstate effort called the “interstate compact,” to attempt to sidestep the Electoral College system defined by the Constitution. Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, called
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Are Marie Kondo and Jordan Peterson Using the Same Method to Build Their Audiences?0
- Culture
- February 28, 2019
About a month ago, my social media feeds were suddenly filled with pictures of aesthetically pleasing and space-conserving methods of folding laundry. Sale posts also skyrocketed as people cleaned out items that did not spark joy, and many of my millennial friends had a renewed interest in “tidying up.” The reason for these trends?
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The Double-edged Sword of Economic Sanctions Against Venezuela 0
- Economics
- February 27, 2019
Venezuela is going through one of the worst economic crises of the last century. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Venezuela’s GDP has fallen nearly 50 percent since 2014. To understand the magnitude of Venezuela’s economic downturn, Spain’s GDP fell by 30 percent… during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s! In other words, a
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The Coming Socialist President?0
- Politics
- February 27, 2019
Lately we have seen numerous conservative commentators posit the thesis that the Democrats are disqualifying themselves from a 2020 presidential victory by lurching too far left on key economic and social issues. The idea is that the American people simply aren’t prepared to follow the Democrats into the leftist territory that seems to be their
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How to Win Arguments When You Haven’t a Leg to Stand On 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2019
A number of studies have shown links between depression and internet use. This being the case, who better than the 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) to be named as the official philosopher of the internet? For thorough-going gloom, it is hard to beat Schopenhauer. “Life is an unpleasant business,” he said as a young
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How Government-Guaranteed Student Loans Killed the American Dream for Millions 0
- Economics
- February 27, 2019
In Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell wrote that prices are what tie together the vast network of economic activity among people who are too vastly scattered to know each other. Prices are the regulators of the free market. An object’s value in the free market is not how much it costs to produce, but rather how
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4 Ways to Navigate Toddler Meltdowns While Shopping 0
- Culture
- February 27, 2019
What’s worse than being stuck in a long line at the supermarket? Being stuck in a long line at the supermarket while your child is having a meltdown. Every parent has been there, and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare. My kids are four and two – in other words, prime ages for throwing fits in
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What a Judge’s Ruling on Drafting Women Means for Military 0
- Politics
- February 26, 2019
A federal judge’s ruling that women must be included in a potential military draft is based on incomplete information, an advocate for military readiness says. The Obama administration rejected a field test by the U.S. Marine Corps that found all-male units performing simulated ground combat tasks outperformed gender-mixed units 69 percent of the time, said
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The Soft Nihilism of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’4
- Culture
- February 26, 2019
In 1971, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with “no heaven,” “no hell,” “no religion,” and “nothing to kill or die for.” Thirty-six years later, the piano on which he wrote that iconic anthem embarked on a “symbolic road trip for peace” that took it to sites of violence and persecution around the
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Effort to Abandon Electoral College Gains Steam. Here’s What It Would Ruin for America.0