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  • Professor Makes Students Cluck Like a Chicken When Beginning a Statement With ‘I Feel’

    Professor Makes Students Cluck Like a Chicken When Beginning a Statement With ‘I Feel’1

    The millennial generation is often considered to be one of the most educated in recent history. But as some college professors have been discovering, their education is not one of factual, truth-filled knowledge. Instead, it is one based on fancy, but contradictory terms, feelings, and a general lack of reason. Faulkner University law professor Adam

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  • Childhood Expert: Current Education System Will Soon ‘Disappear’

    Childhood Expert: Current Education System Will Soon ‘Disappear’2

    Professionally, Peter Gray is known for his prominent book on psychology and for his professorship at Boston College. To the general public, however, Gray is perhaps best known for his book Free to Learn, which argues that the institutional nature of schooling is killing the natural learning ability of our children. Gray’s views were once

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  • Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power

    Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power0

    • November 13, 2017

    In chapter ten of The Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” Hayek continues to warn about the dangers of planned economies, but with a slightly different approach from earlier chapters. Stepping into new territory, here we see Hayek not only identifying economic problems but also discussing the very nature of power itself.

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  • The First Amendment Protects a Dissenting Cake Baker, Not State Coercion

    The First Amendment Protects a Dissenting Cake Baker, Not State Coercion0

    Does the First Amendment allow the government to force a cake baker to make custom cakes in violation of his own conscience and religious beliefs? The answer is “no.” Our legal system must protect people like Jack Phillips, a cake artist and small business owner asserting a First Amendment defense against the Colorado Civil Rights

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  • Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student

    Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student0

    Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He described it as a “slip

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  • Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem

    Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem0

    We have all been there. We’ve been slighted by the person we are speaking with as they reach for their smartphone to check a social media notification. This practice of snubbing is so common that in 2012, the Macquarie Dictionary helped to  create the new word “phubbing” (a combination of phone and snubbing) to describe

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  • Hey GOP, Want to Cut the Burden of Government? Cut Spending.

    Hey GOP, Want to Cut the Burden of Government? Cut Spending.0

    Washington, DC is currently in the middle of a the “tax reform” process, which as Jeff Deist, points out, is ” a con, and a shell game.” Tax reform proposals, Deist continues “always evade and obscure the real issue, which is the total cost — financial, compliance, and human — taxes impose on society.” Tax reform is really about which interest

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  • ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author Explains Why Today’s Kids Can’t Hold Conversations

    ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author Explains Why Today’s Kids Can’t Hold Conversations0

    When it comes to some of the most popular reading material for today’s kids, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid collection dominates the list. Written by Jeff Kinney, the series follows the ups and downs of middle school life for the fictitious Greg Heffley. Regardless of how one views the literary quality of the Wimpy

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  • Wanting Something Doesn’t Make it a Human Right

    Wanting Something Doesn’t Make it a Human Right0

    Any observer of American politics must be struck by the ever-expanding roster of things people have asserted they have rights to. But seriously considered, there is little basis beyond widely shared desires or wishes for certain things, which supposedly implies that there should be rights for them. From there, it is but one more step

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