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A Quick Guide to Writing an Excellent Essay5
- Education
- November 13, 2018
Introduction, statement of case, outline, proof, refutation, conclusion: the six parts of organization are, remember, parts, not necessarily paragraphs. Though students have often been taught that every paragraph must have a topic sentence, one sentence that distills the proof in the paragraph which is proving the thesis, that is not strictly true. What is essential
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Why the Great War Matters Today0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That hour, that day, and that month brought an armistice to the First World War, a conflict that proved just the prelude to the bloodiest century in the history of humankind. November 11, 2018 marks the centennial of that armistice. That war and
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This Former Navy SEAL Has a Veterans Day Message for All Americans0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw of Texas appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to give a message of unity and connection this Veterans Day weekend. Crenshaw, a retired lieutenant commander and now Republican congressman-elect for Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, was thrown into the spotlight the weekend prior to Election Day when “SNL” cast member Pete Davidson mocked him for the wounds
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The Air Force’s $1,200 Air Coffee Cups Demonstrate Big Government at Its Best0
- Economics
- November 12, 2018
The story of how the Air Force found a fifty-cent fix for its broken $1,200+ coffee cups is one for the “you’ve got to be kidding me” section in the volumes of examples for how the U.S. government manages to waste such massive amounts of money each year. That story begins in the summer of
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Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins3
- Economics
- November 12, 2018
In 1939, the same year the Germans and the Russians mutually consented to rape Poland, T.S. Eliot rather famously (or, I suppose for some, infamously) declared: “If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.” Eliot, of course, could not have been more
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Why is America Divided?0
- Culture
- November 9, 2018
In one sense political divisiveness has always been with us. The United States was birthed in political animosity. If you doubt it, go read about the contention between figures such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, or between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. And, of course, there was that little matter between Hamilton and Aaron Burr
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Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers0
- History
- November 9, 2018
It was the sinking of a British boat by a German torpedo that began to push the United States toward entering World War I. For many Americans the attack on the ocean liner Lusitania in May 1915 and the subsequent death of an estimated 1,198 people including 128 Americans solidified the belief that Germany was
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Dutchman ‘Identifies’ as Young Man, Demands to Have 20 Years Taken Off Age0
- Culture
- November 9, 2018
A 69-year-old Dutch man is crossing a new trans-identity frontier. Emile Ratelband, a colourful “positivity guru” (pictured above), has asked a court to turn his legal clock back 20 years so that he can be officially recognised as 49 years old. He told the judge that he did not feel comfortable with his age and
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Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?0
- Culture
- November 9, 2018
Most of us learned—or should have learned—in school that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Therefore, we do not have direct rule by the demos, the “mob” of common people, but by elected representatives and leaders. Of course, some cynically deny that our nominal governments actually rule. Our “real” rulers, they usually
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