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  • Venezuela’s Disaster is Man-Made

    Venezuela’s Disaster is Man-Made0

    Journalists are now reporting regularly on the crisis in Venezuela, with shortages of everything from toilet paper to food and now daily street protests. What the news reports too often miss is, Why? Why is a formerly middle-class, oil-rich country now so desperately poor? The Weekly Standard notes a New York Times article, “How Venezuela

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  • Scientists are Accidentally Helping Poachers Drive Rare Species to Extinction

    Scientists are Accidentally Helping Poachers Drive Rare Species to Extinction0

    If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for sale” – just US$150, with delivery. This extremely rare species is just one of an increasingly large number of animals being pushed to extinction in the wild by animal trafficking. What’s shocking is that the illegal

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  • Homelessness Charity Declines Federal Aid, Gets Hundreds Back on Their Feet

    Homelessness Charity Declines Federal Aid, Gets Hundreds Back on Their Feet0

    Growing up, Teena Faison never imagined she’d find herself a single mom and homeless. “We didn’t wake up one day and go, ‘Hey, I just want to be homeless with my kids,’” she told The Daily Signal “No. There’s many, many contributing factors to that – lack of education, lack of resources, addiction.” At 34

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  • Gallup: 8 Things You Need to Know About U.S. Students

    Gallup: 8 Things You Need to Know About U.S. Students0

    In a recent snapshot report, Gallup identified eight key findings about U.S. students. The findings stem from a poll Gallup conducted last fall that surveyed students in grades 5-12 from 3,000 public and private schools in North America. Here is what Gallup found: Engaged and hopeful students fare better on desirable outcomes, such as better

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  • Does the Witch Hunt to Rename Monuments Signal a Narrow Education?

    Does the Witch Hunt to Rename Monuments Signal a Narrow Education?0

    In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a popular trend to rename various geographical and manmade landmarks. The renaming attempts often revolve around issues of racism, particularly in relation to whether an individual was pro-slavery. The latest incident in this line of renaming attempts occurred at a high school in Madison, Wisconsin. As local publication

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  • 19 Quotes from Historic Figures That Will Make You Uncomfortable

    19 Quotes from Historic Figures That Will Make You Uncomfortable0

    1. Woodrow Wilson on the rise of the KKK “The white men were aroused by a mere instinct of self-preservation — until at last there sprung into existence a great Kuklux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” – Wilson in A History of the American People (1902) 2. Abraham

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  • Video: Factual Feminist Is Macro-annoyed with Microaggression Theory

    Video: Factual Feminist Is Macro-annoyed with Microaggression Theory0

    As if there were not enough real aggression in the world, the hothouse climate of American universities has bred infestations of “microaggression”. This noxious weed is causing countless students and staff to break out in a rash of indignation and hurt feelings, and is spreading rapidly through society. The remedy seems to be to bring

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  • Author Warns: ‘The power of Islam may at any moment re-arise’

    Author Warns: ‘The power of Islam may at any moment re-arise’1

    Today there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam will supposedly supplant Christianity as the world’s largest religion before this century is complete. These facts have many in the Western world frightened. At the same time, the Muslim world does not currently represent a united military threat to the Western world. The foreign

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  • Any Of These 3 Bubbles Could Be About To Burst

    Any Of These 3 Bubbles Could Be About To Burst0

    Moral hazard, easy money, and cheap credit have never produced good results. History is littered with examples of financial disaster brought about by monetary manipulation originating in central banks and then spreading to other parts of the system. One would think that the 2007/8 credit crisis, whose effects have not quite withered away, would teach

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