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What Robin Williams Taught Us About Kindness 0
- Entertainment
- December 20, 2017
Kate Osher, a writer and attorney, last year told a story about tragedy and the kindness of a famous stranger. Osher’s husband had committed suicide. Following his wishes, she was on a “travel quest” to scatter his ashes in places that had touched his life. Intending to fly with a Tupperware container of her husband’s
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Only 1 in 4 Millennials Demonstrate ‘Basic Financial Literacy,’ According to George Washington University Poll 2
- Economics
- December 20, 2017
I was recently at a family gathering when I got into a discussion about high school math with some younger relatives. One revealed a love for math that I didn’t know existed. In fact, she surprised me by explaining that she had taken many of the advanced math classes that schools are always encouraging students
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Is Complaining about Society a Waste of Time?0
- Religion
- December 20, 2017
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 0
- Economics
- December 20, 2017
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 0
- Economics
- December 19, 2017
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 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
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 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
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 0
- Economics
- December 19, 2017
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 0
- Culture
- December 19, 2017
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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What Robin Williams Taught Us About Kindness 0