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  • Amid the Seas of Empty Asphalt, after Christmas

    Amid the Seas of Empty Asphalt, after Christmas0

    These are the days after Christmas, the days when families across the country burst out from their households of holiday cheer in order to once again brave the lines and lots of shopping malls, exchanging gifts and chasing year-end deals. It is, in other words, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, a “peak”

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  • What a Woman

    What a Woman0

    Fierce. Honest. Libertarian. Author and professor Camille Paglia speaks her own mind, uses logic rather than histrionics to make her arguments, and is unafraid of blowback from her critics. Though a lifelong Democrat and a supporter of Bernie Sanders, she refused to vote for Hilary Clinton, regarding her as a “liar.” She has called into

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  • Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude

    Six Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude1

    Kindness means thinking of others and acting in ways that contribute to their happiness. Complaining certainly doesn’t do that.  If you’ve been trying to make kindness part of your family culture and there’s still a lot of complaining, it’s time to take further steps to teach and practice gratitude.  Here are 6: 1. Discuss as a family

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  • Human Freedom Index 20180

    “ Cato Institute’s scholars Tanja Porčnik and Ian Vásquez have recently released the 2018 Human Freedom Index (HFI), a report where the authors look at freedom in the world using data from 2016. The HFI ranks countries from most to least free after analyzing 79 indicators related to personal and economic freedom. Here are five graphs

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  • How to Protect Californians from Wildfires

    How to Protect Californians from Wildfires0

    The release of the U.S. Climate Science Special Report—with its warning of worsening U.S. natural disasters—has sparked a renewed cry for global efforts to fight climate change. In California, outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown was quick to identify climate change (i.e., global warming) as the culprit behind the deadliest wildfire season the Golden State has seen.

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  • 15 Things You Should Know about the 2018 Partial Government Shutdown

    15 Things You Should Know about the 2018 Partial Government Shutdown0

    1. What just happened? On Friday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a spending bill that includes border wall funding. President Trump refuses to sign any additional funding that does not include $5.1 billion in additional money to pay for an extension of the border wall, allowing him

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  • Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump

    Why (Most) Right-Wing Intellectuals Hate Trump0

    More than two years into President Trump’s historic presidency, it behooves us to think more deeply about a persistent sticking point in the political life of the nation: Why do (most) right-wing intellectuals loathe him? This kind of nearly unified opposition cries out for explanation.   After all, it is not simply that all left-wing

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  • The Ongoing Decline of the American Male

    The Ongoing Decline of the American Male0

    “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”  ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man In the movie Falling Down, Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) is a defense engineer who has lost

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  • Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.

    Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does.0

    Armed with a bachelor of science in elementary education, I charged into my career as a teacher. I was immediately exposed to students at three levels of public schools: A rather wealthy district with an average IQ of 120. A classic, middle-class school. A school that is best described as a mini United Nations. In

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