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  • Seven Reasons People No Longer Want to be Teachers

    Seven Reasons People No Longer Want to be Teachers0

    The oldest profession – teaching – is no longer attractive. The Queensland Deans of Education revealed there have been alarming drops in first preference applications for this year’s teacher preparation courses. Queensland has experienced an overall 26 percent drop. Most alarmingly, UQ reported a 44 percent plunge. QUT saw a 19 percent drop. These figures

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  • Only Congress Has the Power to Declare War. Just Ask James Madison

    Only Congress Has the Power to Declare War. Just Ask James Madison0

    Tim Kaine, the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said about President Trump’s airstrikes on Syria. “The last thing Congress should be doing is giving this president a blank check to wage war against anyone, anywhere.” Of course, Kaine’s protests are hypocritical. Undeclared presidential wars are a bi-partisan problem. Despite three years of heaving fighting, and

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  • Why the Left Is Wrong About Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation Between Church and State’

    Why the Left Is Wrong About Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation Between Church and State’0

    April 13 marks the 275th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. A renaissance man with a long and accomplished legacy, Jefferson played a major role in the founding of the United States of America—and establishing its strong protections for religious freedom for all. There can be no better way to celebrate one of America’s greatest statesmen

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  • Student: What White Privilege Lessons Did to My High School

    Student: What White Privilege Lessons Did to My High School0

    During my last year in high school, all seniors were required to write a speech about the topic of their choice and present this speech to the student body and faculty. My essay, titled “Division”, dealt with how identity politics ruined the last few years at the high school that I attended. It was summarized

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  • Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake

    Putting a Ring on It, for the Children’s Sake0

    Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and

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  • New Documentary Explains Why Young People Aren’t Getting Married

    New Documentary Explains Why Young People Aren’t Getting Married0

    It seems there’s nothing shocking when it comes to love and romance these days. Everything from random hook-ups with strangers whose last names are unknown, to women who turn the dating process into a money-making industry, seem par for the course. Put another way, the normal approach to romance has become… abnormal.   It is for

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  • Google, Twitter & Facebook: The Grave Danger of Information Monopolies

    Google, Twitter & Facebook: The Grave Danger of Information Monopolies0

    Increasingly, you will find articles critical of the power of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Some of these articles argue that between Google and Facebook, the two giants control 85 percent of all ad revenue. And, of course, anyone who uses the internet knows that Google is the primary portal through which one seeks and finds information

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  • Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work

    Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work0

    A commentator on Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the Senate observed that the event seemed like a 5-hour tech-support call. Truth. If you have ever had to do tech support, you know the way it happens. The user is hopeless, frustrated, and essentially ignorant of the product. That’s the Senate. The support employee tries to organize

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  • Was Darwin Wrong?

    Was Darwin Wrong?0

    Christopher Booker is a contrarian English journalist who writes extensively on science-related issues. He has produced possibly the best available critical review of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. He has cast justifiable doubt on the alleged ill effects of low-level pollutants like airborne asbestos and second-hand tobacco smoke. Booker has also lobbed a few hand-grenades at Darwin’s

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