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  • Is Japan’s Royal Family Going Extinct?

    Is Japan’s Royal Family Going Extinct?0

    The Japanese Imperial Household Agency recently announced the forthcoming engagement of Princess Ayako, granddaughter of Emperor Akihito. Amidst the excitement of the engagement to Kei Moriya, she must also prepare to relinquish her status as a member of the Imperial family. Under Imperial Household Law, any female member of the royal family who chooses to

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  • A Month of Data Provides Ample Evidence for Why Law-Abiding Citizens Own Firearms

    A Month of Data Provides Ample Evidence for Why Law-Abiding Citizens Own Firearms0

    There is no denying that lawful gun owners use their firearms in self-defense far more often than those decrying the “myth” of a good guy with a gun would care to admit. Firearms are, in fact, used for self-defense often and effectively. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, notorious for its anti-gun bias, acknowledges as

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  • William Shatner Defended Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter. Now He’s Being Accused of Racism.

    William Shatner Defended Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter. Now He’s Being Accused of Racism.0

    On June 30, actor William Shatner tweeted his displeasure with the renaming of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. By Independence Day, all hell had broken loose. Wilder (1867-1957), a children’s author best known for her Little House on the Prairie series, had her name stripped from an award issued by the Association for Library Service

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  • The Frightening Internal Logic of the Far Left’s Calls for Political Violence

    The Frightening Internal Logic of the Far Left’s Calls for Political Violence0

    Before comedian Louis CK was drummed out of show business for sexual misconduct, he offered a prophetic insight into the increasingly hysterical and abusive state of American politics. “People always say abortion protesters are so shrill,” (I’m paraphrasing) “But they think babies are being murdered!” The point is a good one. If you sincerely believe

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  • Republican Governor Signs Gun Seizure Bill

    Republican Governor Signs Gun Seizure Bill0

    Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill on Tuesday allowing for temporary gun confiscation without any due process in Massachusetts. Bill H4670 enables the police, a family or household member, including roommates, relatives or significant others, to remove firearms, firearm identification cards and ammunition from any individual deemed to be a danger to oneself or others.

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  • Progressives Want to Recycle Some of History’s Worst Ideas

    Progressives Want to Recycle Some of History’s Worst Ideas0

    What we now consider stupid and dangerous ideas of the past, progressives see as useful in the present. Even liberal historians usually label as disastrous two decisions by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration: the adoption of the Earl Warren-McClatchy newspaper inspired plan to intern Japanese-American citizens and the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937—better known

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  • Chesterton on the ‘Unimportance’ of Evolution

    Chesterton on the ‘Unimportance’ of Evolution0

    Would you be surprised to learn that Chesterton believed in evolution?  Well, he did.  At least he believed in what he called “evolutionism.”  In a separate essay in the Illustrated London News he wrote the following: “There is an element of evolutionism in the universe, and I know of no religion or philosophy that ever entirely ignored it.” Another term

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  • Mexico Begins Its Own Trek to Hell

    Mexico Begins Its Own Trek to Hell0

    All Latin-Americans at some point ask themselves: Why is no Latin American country as well-developed as the United States?   The answer is probably not related to our weather or a lesser disposition to work, as many have tried to claim. The answer is probably simpler: A socialist culture and a strong attachment to the left. Venezuela,

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  • Les Miserables: What Permit Patty’s Outburst Can Teach Us About Mercy

    Les Miserables: What Permit Patty’s Outburst Can Teach Us About Mercy0

    Meet Permit Patty (real name: Allison Ettel), the allegedly racist and anti-entrepreneur terror of the streets. She was recently recorded calling the cops on an 8-year old. Within hours, Permit Patty’s face was all over the internet. She admitted that she’d reacted badly, but contented her action had nothing to do with race or what

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