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  • ‘Shattered’ Reveals the True Villains of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign

    ‘Shattered’ Reveals the True Villains of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign0

    The 2016 presidential campaign was supposed to end with something being shattered.  And it did.  It just didn’t end with the sort of shattering that Hillary Clinton had long had in mind. Poised to bring that proverbial glass ceiling crashing down, Ms. Clinton instead presided over the smash up of her White House dreams. Perhaps

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  • ‘Empathy’ Might Be the Most Overused Word in the English Language (See Chart)

    ‘Empathy’ Might Be the Most Overused Word in the English Language (See Chart)0

    “You completely lack empathy.” This was what a longtime acquaintance said to me a few months ago after I shared on Facebook a quote from Jeffrey Tucker, a prominent libertarian scholar, which touched on federalism and Donald Trump’s rescinding of an executive order on transgender discrimination. The comment stuck in my craw.  I place high

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  • Would You Have Worn the Yellow Star?

    Would You Have Worn the Yellow Star?0

    Recently Daniel Lattier wrote about an elementary school in Edina, Minnesota, where public school children “are being trained to see the world through the lens of race.” Robert Jones, writing in The New York Times, warns that our distinctly American identity is in danger of being lost. Jones is not talking about the loss of

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  • Why Bad Moods are Good for You

    Why Bad Moods are Good for You0

    Homo sapiens is a very moody species. Even though sadness and bad moods have always been part of the human experience, we now live in an age that ignores or devalues these feelings. In our culture, normal human emotions like temporary sadness are often treated as disorders. Manipulative advertising, marketing and self-help industries claim happiness

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  • Trump Defiles the Sanctity of Government, and It Drives the Center-Left Mad

    Trump Defiles the Sanctity of Government, and It Drives the Center-Left Mad0

    Has the center-left ever been more apoplectic about a presidency? It can’t have been this nuts even during the Nixon presidency. Every day, their publications fill up with articles that are breathless to the point of hysteria about the disgrace that the Trump administration is bringing to the affairs of government. His incessant tweeting, his

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  • This Healthcare Mess is Not ‘Insurance’

    This Healthcare Mess is Not ‘Insurance’0

    The House of Representatives has just passed a statute it represents as “repealing and replacing Obamacare.” This legislation, now awaiting what promises to be major challenges in gaining the Senate’s approval, does amend certain aspects of the Obamacare setup, but all in all the changes are less than earth-shaking, and the previous system will continue

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  • Prof: 3 Reasons Lack of Manners is Killing the University

    Prof: 3 Reasons Lack of Manners is Killing the University0

    Over the weekend, University of North Carolina professor Molly Worthen penned an article for The New York Times intriguingly titled, “U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This.” As the article infers, the popular concept of parents allowing children to be their “friends” has hit the ivy halls, and many students are bringing familiarity into

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  • Lawmakers Ask Attorney General to Take Second Look at Lois Lerner’s Case

    Lawmakers Ask Attorney General to Take Second Look at Lois Lerner’s Case0

    Congressmen are asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to re-examine the case of IRS division chief Lois Lerner. “We believe that she targeted people based on their political philosophy, which is a crime, and secondly, we believe that she has lied to the inspector general when that was being investigated,” Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., told The

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  • You Can’t Deny that Venezuela is a Socialist Calamity

    You Can’t Deny that Venezuela is a Socialist Calamity0

    As Venezuela descends into a nightmare of starvation and violence, the long-standing debate over the feasibility of socialism takes on new relevance. Years of explicitly socialist policies from the Chavez and Maduro regimes have taken their toll, as nationalization and a variety of other attempts to abolish or subvert market processes have destroyed what was

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