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What You Should Know About Trump’s Tax Reform Framework0
- Economics
- September 27, 2017
Later today in a speech in Indiana, President Trump will outline his tax reform framework. Here’s what you should know about the president’s plan: What are the goals of the tax reform framework? Trump’s tax plan has four stated goals: 1. Make the tax code simple, fair and easy to understand. 2. Give American workers
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What Charles Dickens Understood About Self-Pity0
- Culture
- September 27, 2017
Over the last few weeks I have been making my way through Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. In reading it, I have once again been struck by Dickens’ remarkable ability to weave multiple, insignificant storylines into a cohesive tale. It is this talent which perhaps explains why a main theme of the novel did not hit
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Regret Nothing, Especially Not Motherhood0
- Culture
- September 27, 2017
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Here’s How Much Money the NFL Rakes in From Taxpayers0
- Economics
- September 27, 2017
The National Football League is now plunged into politics as players throughout the sport kneel for the national anthem and President Donald Trump continues to rebuke them publicly. Undoubtedly, the situation has left many fans and non-fans of the league conflicted or angry. This fiasco may, however, open the eyes of the public to a
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Harvard Law Prof: Colleges have become ‘propaganda vehicles’0
- Education
- September 27, 2017
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, appearing on Fox Business on Wednesday morning, offered a bleak assessment of the American university system in 2017. “Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where captive audiences of students are told not how to think but what to think, particularly about sensitive issues like the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict,
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Yet More Evidence the SAT is Being Dumbed Down0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
We’ve been hearing for some time now that SAT scores are on the decline. For example, the year 2006 saw reading scores at 503, math scores at 518, and writing scores at 497. In 2016, however, the scores ran 494 for reading, 508 for math, and 482 for writing. When the scoring system change was
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What’s Wrong with the Right, the Left, AND the Center0
- Politics
- September 26, 2017
I consider myself politically homeless, and have for a while now. I started out as a ‘campus leftist’ or ‘social justice warrior’, knee-deep in the works of Marx and Marcuse, Horkheimer and Habermas. But life as an expat in China changed my outlook somewhat. Witnessing the marriage between a communist state and its
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What is ‘Cultural Marxism’?0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
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Using the National Anthem and U.S. Flag to Protest is Not Helpful0
- Culture
- September 26, 2017
How this all started and how it escalated is less important than the weekend blowup that engulfed America, when average folks count on taking a break from tensions of the week at work and in the news and enjoy the diversion of sports events. Now it’s all blurring together and social tensions have invaded the
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