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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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  • Why I Am Not Raising My Daughters to be Feminists

    Why I Am Not Raising My Daughters to be Feminists0

    HuffPost reported recently on a project created by photographers and partners Sham Hinchey and Marzia Messina called “Dear Daughters,” in which 22 men posed for artsy portraits with their daughters, ages eight to eleven, and chatted informally but a little awkwardly, with them about feminism. As you might expect from HuffPost, a half-hour video of the process depicts

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  • Want to Raise a Capable Adult? Have Your Child Do These 5 Activities

    Want to Raise a Capable Adult? Have Your Child Do These 5 Activities0

    There have been several hopeful signs coming out of the doom and gloom generation – also known as millennials – in the last few months which seem to signal that they may finally be growing up. The first sign can be seen in birth rates, which, although still behind those of other generations, continue to

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  • Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

    Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics0

    The University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler is a leading practitioner of behavioral economics, the application of psychology to problems of valuation, choice, exchange, and pricing. Following Mises, most Austrian economists have distinguished sharply between praxeology, the logical analysis of action, and psychology, the behavioral motivations and

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