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  • Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?

    Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?0

    There are a growing number of conservatives who, similar to their progressive counterparts, have identified capitalism as the source of a great many evils in modern society. As the argument goes, unchecked freedom in the economic realm has led to unchecked freedom in the ethical realm; laissez-faire capitalism has laid the groundwork for the decline

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  • 40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE

    40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE0

    According to Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, there is very little that is good about America. Alston recently released a statement chock full of misleading statistics that are being bandied about by people like former Obama official Andy Slavitt, who repeated one of Alston’s claims on his

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  • Why the Alt-Right is Against Capitalism

    Why the Alt-Right is Against Capitalism0

    Some people on the left are starting to worry about getting trolled by the alt-right. This is because the alt-right has become aggressively anti-capitalist, pro-welfare state, and in favor of a government that specifically promotes white interests, not a free market that offers no privilege to anyone. “The alt-right is looking to expand its ranks,”

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  • Racial Quotas in Special Education Hurt Minorities Most

    Racial Quotas in Special Education Hurt Minorities Most0

    Is it OK to sacrifice a child’s education in the name of preventing racial stereotyping? In a sane world, the answer would be “no.” But to the Obama administration, the answer was apparently “yes.” Because it thought that black and Hispanic children were wrongly stereotyped as needing special education, it issued a regulation in 2016

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  • Massachusetts Adopted Common Core – and It’s Beginning to Show

    Massachusetts Adopted Common Core – and It’s Beginning to Show0

    Massachusetts has long been known as a leader in American education. As early as 1647, the state decreed that every sizeable town form a school to ensure that children learn to read and write. The state’s prominence in education has continued through the 21st century, in which Massachusetts is often held up as a model

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  • Final Tax Bill: Middle Class Gets Biggest Cut

    Final Tax Bill: Middle Class Gets Biggest Cut0

    The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has released its distributional analysis of the final Republican tax bill. The bill provides even larger percentage cuts for middle earners than previous versions of the legislation. If the legislation is enacted, higher earners will pay an even larger share of the overall income tax burden than they do now. Our

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  • 10 Interesting Historical Facts about European Monasteries

    10 Interesting Historical Facts about European Monasteries0

    Monasteries began cropping up in corners of the Roman Empire even before Rome “officially” fell in 476 A.D. Rome had brought order to the Western world for nearly 1,000 years. In its absence, the monastery, which began as small religious settlements, would eventually grow into the dominant religious, cultural, educational, and economic institution of the

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  • Why Canada Pulled a BBC Documentary on Transgender Kids

    Why Canada Pulled a BBC Documentary on Transgender Kids0

    Towards the end of 2017, Lindsay Shepherd, a teacher’s assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, got into big trouble for showing her class a debate featuring Jordan Peterson on the issue of gender pronouns. As Shepherd would later note, the clip she showed was originally featured on public television, a fact which led her

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  • The Schizophrenic Nature of Gender Ideology

    The Schizophrenic Nature of Gender Ideology0

    It’s hard for an impartial observer to make sense of the arguments about what it is that “makes people gay”… or transgender… or pansexual… or bigender… or genderqueer… or whatever other genders the ideologically fertile imaginations of today’s cultural revolutionaries have come up with. It used to be that those who identified as gay were

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