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  • Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union

    Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union0

    Great moments in public employee unionism, as recorded in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer:  A battle is brewing at Western Michigan University this summer between a group of hungry goats and a labor union.  The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a

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  • Why Students Can No Longer Work Their Way Through College

    Why Students Can No Longer Work Their Way Through College0

    As a current senior at a private college, I know firsthand how expensive the cost of college is today. For the upcoming 2017-2018 academic school year, the full sticker price of attending my school is $53,950. Wow. Many could criticize me for picking a pricier private college instead of a cheaper public one, but when

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  • Why One Mom was Right to Shun Her Child’s Perfect Attendance Award

    Why One Mom was Right to Shun Her Child’s Perfect Attendance Award0

    Rachel Wright made waves on Facebook last week when she announced that her son J.J. had received an award for perfect attendance during the preceding school year. Contrary to what one might think, the waves were not the result of a proud mother bragging on her child. Instead, they were the result of a mother

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  • What Is the End Goal of Education?

    What Is the End Goal of Education?0

    In the 1913 Elementary Course of Study, published by the State of Kentucky, the introduction to the second chapter states that “The highest function of the school is character building.” The chapter then goes on to detail how teachers should go about forming this character in their young elementary school students, as well as what

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  • War with North Korea Would Be Sheer Madness

    War with North Korea Would Be Sheer Madness0

    The war drums are beating again, this time for the Korean peninsula. And if a conflict occurs, no one believes it would be a cakewalk. Total casualties almost certainly would be in the hundreds of thousands; the destruction throughout highly industrialized South Korea would be unimaginable. It is a sequel no sane person wants to

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  • Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive

    Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive0

    By now, I think most of us are aware that President Donald Trump is no great student of history or ideas. But he does give voice to some statements that are pregnant with truth, even if perhaps neither a deep understanding nor practice of that truth is exemplified in Trump’s personal life. One of these

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  • The Attack on Hobby Lobby Is Incoherent and Unjust

    The Attack on Hobby Lobby Is Incoherent and Unjust0

    The mainstream press has accused Hobby Lobby, a great and beloved American company, of hypocrisy, unchristian behavior, smuggling, stealing, and even funding terrorism. As punishment, and concluding an investigation that has been going on for six years, the US government has extracted from the company a fine of $3 million, and the company is sending to the government property it bought

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  • Studying Philosophy Doesn’t Necessarily Make One Smarter

    Studying Philosophy Doesn’t Necessarily Make One Smarter0

    Does studying philosophy improve one’s thinking, and thus make one more employable? Some top and not-so-top philosophy departments, concerned by the threat of declining enrollment and funding cuts, would have you believe it does. But Neven Sesardic, who has taught philosophy at universities around the globe and can boast some impressive publications, says that there’s

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  • Should Religious Teaching Be Allowed in Public Schools?

    Should Religious Teaching Be Allowed in Public Schools?0

    I was recently told about the experiences of an English teacher who took a job at a public school in a Midwestern town. At the very least, one might say that this teacher dealt with some… interesting behavior over the course of the school year. But what I found most fascinating about this teacher’s story

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