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  • A Failed Defense of Campus Kangaroo Courts

    A Failed Defense of Campus Kangaroo Courts0

    A college president recently promoted fallacies about the law in order to justify federal micromanagement of school discipline. Writing in the Washington Post, Brooklyn College’s Michelle Anderson defended a 2011 letter from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dictating “the standard of proof in campus disciplinary proceedings.” It told colleges that had been using

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  • 8 Facts to Know about the Stone Which Broke the Code of History

    8 Facts to Know about the Stone Which Broke the Code of History0

    Discovered on July 19 in 1799 by the French, the Rosetta Stone proved to be one of the most important historical discoveries in the history of, well… history. As the most popular artifact in the British Museum, it sees most of the Museum’s 6.8 million visitors each year. Below are eight facts about the now

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  • Social Security is Sinking

    Social Security is Sinking0

    Via Money.CNN: “In an annual report released Thursday, trustees of the government’s two largest entitlement programs — Social Security and Medicare — urged lawmakers to act quickly to assure Americans they’ll be able to get their full retirement benefits. The trustees projected that the Social Security trust fund will be tapped out by 2034. While

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  • Is Russia Part of Western Civilization?

    Is Russia Part of Western Civilization?0

    A recent tweet by conservative columnist and vlogger Dennis Prager about the news media posing a greater threat to “Western civilization” than Russia has prompted a fierce backlash on online media. It has also indirectly given voice to an age-old question about Russia: is she Western, or not? Are Russia and America bound by the

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  • How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation

    How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation2

    I recently picked up Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court for the first time. Finding the plot rather amusing, I began relaying it to my father over the weekend. Because he had never read the book, I was rather surprised when he began asking informed questions about the story. In no time

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  • Has Star Wars Become a False Idol for Lost and Distracted Souls?

    Has Star Wars Become a False Idol for Lost and Distracted Souls?0

    HAN: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. LUKE: You don’t believe in the Force, do you? HAN: Kid, I’ve flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange stuff, but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe

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  • Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink

    Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink0

    A while back, some friends of mine relayed an experience they had in their pre-marriage years while taking a college drama course together. At the beginning of the quarter, the instructor asked the students to write down the grade they would like to receive. The wife immediately wrote that she would like to receive an

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  • Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?

    Do Psychopaths Have Feelings?0

    Psychopaths have long captured the imagination. The names of famous psychopaths, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evoke a morbid curiosity. The crimes committed by these men are so vicious, so unfathomably cruel, that it’s impossible to imagine how someone could do such a thing. The severed heads kept as mementos in Bundy’s apartment

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  • ‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term

    ‘Hate Facts’ – Yes, People Are Now Using That Term0

    It’s commonly said that a fact is what’s expressible by a statement that is “proven” to be true—e.g. statements such as “2+2=4” and “the Pacific is the earth’s largest ocean”—whereas opinions lack proof even when they happen to be true. Yet in an era when more and more reality is weaponized for political purposes, the

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