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  • Taxpayers Foot Bill For EPA Employee’s $15k Gym Membership

    Taxpayers Foot Bill For EPA Employee’s $15k Gym Membership0

    Via the Daily Caller News Foundation: “Las Vegas-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official used his government credit card to purchase a $14,799 gym membership. A conservative advocacy group released documents purporting to show EPA contracting officer Kevin Broadnax bought a 37-year membership at Super Sport gym on April 11, 2017. Broadnax used his government charge

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  • Music for Easter & Holy Week: Ten Classical Pieces

    Music for Easter & Holy Week: Ten Classical Pieces0

    Though Handel’s Messiah rightly reigns supreme as the king of music for Easter, there are many other seasonal masterpieces that deserve to be heard more often. Here are ten lesser-known classical works that brilliantly depict the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. 1. “Resurrexit” from the Messe Solennelle, by Hector Berlioz (1824) The

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  • How Adjunct College Teaching is Like Slave Labor

    How Adjunct College Teaching is Like Slave Labor0

    The Hollywood image of the university professor as a tweed blazer, button-up wearing young urban professional with plenty of disposable income is an enduring one. If only it were true. The image defies reality, at least for the vast majority of college professors. On most college and university campuses today, more than half are referred to

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  • Bloggers Sued for Creating ‘Hostile Environment’ in Apartment Buildings

    Bloggers Sued for Creating ‘Hostile Environment’ in Apartment Buildings0

    A recent ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals menaces free speech in condominiums, apartment buildings, and the Internet. It allowed individual bloggers to be sued because their blog posts allegedly created a “hostile housing environment” for condo residents who kept emotional-support dogs despite the condominium’s no-dogs rule. This “hostile environment” allegedly rendered those

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  • United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger

    United Airlines Was Right to Remove a Belligerent Passenger0

    Anyone asked to leave an overbooked flight for which they purchased a ticket would be justifiably annoyed. They have somewhere they need to be, and it wasn’t their fault United Airlines screwed up. So when a passenger on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was randomly chosen to be removed, he was right

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  • The Reason Border Arrests Are Plummeting

    The Reason Border Arrests Are Plummeting0

    The month of March brought with it the lowest number of apprehensions along the U.S. southern border since at least the year 2000. This decrease can be credited to the strict enforcement policies that have been put in place since President Donald Trump took office, coupled with the now-credible threat of deportation that illegal immigrants

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  • Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’

    Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’2

    • April 12, 2017

    We’ve all heard the expression “According to research…” followed by some scientific finding that we are expected, given this prefatory expression, to accept without question. But as it turns out, even in a field as supposedly objective as biomedicine, reliability and validity are sorely wanting. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, science writer Richard Harris bemoans

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  • How Lazy Millennials Are Hurting Whole Foods

    How Lazy Millennials Are Hurting Whole Foods0

    I drove by the new Whole Foods grocery store in my community the other day. It’s big, it’s hip-looking, and it offers much better parking than its former location. But according to a recent Washington Post article, the perks of this new store may be costing Whole Foods more than they would have liked. In

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  • How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide

    How a Campus Kangaroo Court Drove One Student to Suicide0

    In May 2016, Thomas Klocke, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was accused of sexual misconduct. According to reports, the accusations stemmed from an interaction Klocke had with a gay student during class, in which Klocke allegedly used a gay slur. Klocke, who vehemently denied the accusations, was formally charged with violating

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