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  • One Simple Way to Boost Financial Literacy Among U.S. Students

    One Simple Way to Boost Financial Literacy Among U.S. Students0

    When it comes to international comparisons in reading, math, and science, students from the United States measure just so-so. A new report from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) suggests that U.S. students are middle-of-the road when it comes to financial literacy as well. CBS News reports: “The results raise several red flags given

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  • Noted Scholar to Congress: ‘We need a cultural Great Awakening’

    Noted Scholar to Congress: ‘We need a cultural Great Awakening’0

    Political scientist Charles Murray has spent much of his career examining cultural trends in a declining America. He is most known for his controversial book The Bell Curve, which argues that intelligence is a better predictor of children’s success than their parents’ socioeconomic status. More recently he published the New York Times bestseller Coming Apart:

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  • Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale

    Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale1

    A communications group at Yale University has put out a video (see below) that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a

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  • Check Out the 10 Books Universities Are Assigning to Incoming Freshmen

    Check Out the 10 Books Universities Are Assigning to Incoming Freshmen0

    It seems one can’t open an internet browser these days without seeing some new story on the unrest and chaos prevailing throughout college campuses. One of the latest incidents was highlighted in The Wall Street Journal by Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein. As Weinstein tells it, he was forced to hold his biology class

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  • 7 Reasons Trump is Right to Scrap the Paris Climate Deal

    7 Reasons Trump is Right to Scrap the Paris Climate Deal0

    Reuters reports that President Donald Trump will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. And writers are apoplectic. Todd Stern at The Atlantic says such a move would be “indefensible.” At Slate, David McKean and David Wade said pulling out would be a huge mistake “because our planet is currently on a collision course

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  • Why is Europe Subsidizing Jihadists?

    Why is Europe Subsidizing Jihadists?0

    Does the European welfare system promote hate by allowing people to avoid learning the lessons of mutual dependence and cooperation that the workplace teaches? Consider for a moment how little we can do for ourselves. The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the fuel we burn are mostly obtained through the efforts of others.

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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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