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  • More Victims of the $15 Minimum Wage

    More Victims of the $15 Minimum Wage0

    The deleterious side effects of the $15-per-hour minimum wage have continued to manifest across the country, affecting cities from Seattle to Minneapolis and states from California to New York. To illustrate the damage, the Employment Policies Institute is maintaining a catalog of suffering businesses across the country, highlighting stories of raised consumer prices, increased unemployment, reduced

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  • Meet the Fastest-Growing Christian Group in America

    Meet the Fastest-Growing Christian Group in America0

    Last week, from Oct. 6 to 9, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was filled with tents, worship music and prayer for the “Awaken the Dawn” rally. The purpose of the event, according to organizer Lou Engle, was to “gather around Jesus,” to pray for the nation and its government. It ended with a day

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  • A Theory on Why Teen Depression and Anxiety Are Skyrocketing

    A Theory on Why Teen Depression and Anxiety Are Skyrocketing1

    Dovetailing with World Mental Health Day earlier this week, The New York Times published an article about the skyrocketing rates of teenage anxiety, depression, and suicide. It highlights recent data revealing that hospital admissions for suicidal teens have doubled in the last decade, with the highest spike in admissions occurring in early fall as students

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  • Violent Crime is Up Even Though Poverty is Down. Why?

    Violent Crime is Up Even Though Poverty is Down. Why?0

    The FBI recently released its Uniform Crime Report for 2016. There is a lot to digest in the report, but here are three primary takeaways: 1) Violent crime since 2015 is up 4.1% (the second year in a row violent crime has increased); 2) homicides rose sharply (8.6%); 3) the biggest increases in violent crime

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  • Move Over Obama, Trump Has a Pen, a Phone… and a Tweet

    Move Over Obama, Trump Has a Pen, a Phone… and a Tweet0

    President Trump spent the weekend embroiled in yet another Twitter skirmish, this time with retiring Republican Senator Bob Corker. Trump may even have suffered a rare defeat on his own turf, based on Corker’s hilarious rejoinder about someone missing their daycare shift at the White House. If Trump has a soul, even he laughed at

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  • Men: They took your NFL, now what?

    Men: They took your NFL, now what?0

    The culture war is a total war. There is no escape, there is no safe place. Everything is politicized, everything is fair game. You’re starting to realize that now. Maybe you noticed a few years back that ESPN had increasingly incorporated political issues and social justice narratives into its reporting. But like in other areas

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  • Looking at Randomness but Seeing Conspiracies

    Looking at Randomness but Seeing Conspiracies0

    We see patterns where none exist. It’s what humans do; in fact, it’s what animals do. Mark Twain noticed this, and had a pithy summary. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down

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  • Boy Scouts Now Allowing Girls To Join

    Boy Scouts Now Allowing Girls To Join0

    The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will now allow girls to join their well known Cub Scout program which will enable them to advance to the highest rank of Eagle Scout, according to a statement released Wednesday. The organization’s board of directors voted unanimously to make the historic change to the group that has been

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  • 4 Good Reasons to Say ‘Men’ Instead of ‘Men and Women’

    4 Good Reasons to Say ‘Men’ Instead of ‘Men and Women’0

    As our culture descends into confusion about gender, there’s more and more talk about changing our language to accommodate it. Unfortunately, if your language has to be brought into conformity with confused thinking, you end up with confused language. Jacques Barzun was one of the greatest humanities scholars of the twentieth century. In the book

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