Blog 3 Columns

The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia 0
- International
- April 7, 2017
Recent news reports that a man had both his legs amputated after being bitten by a white-tailed spider have again cast this relatively harmless spider in a negative light. Experts have since said amputations may have been wrongly blamed on a spider bite, and authorities now consider a bacterial infection to be responsible for the
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The Progressive Roots of Fascism 0
- Culture
- April 7, 2017
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have become, for many of us today, mere Hollywood villains—generic personifications of evil or (in Mussolini’s case) buffoonish authoritarianism. Yet their ideologies were rooted in specific philosophical ideas—ideas which had many respectable adherents in their day. One person who understands this is Jonah Goldberg, author of the 2007 book Liberal
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The High School Kids from Kansas Who Found the Female Schindler 0
- Education
- April 7, 2017
By now you’ve probably heard of the team of high school journalists from Kansas who blew the cover on their new school principal. In brief, the school newspaper team found that the new hire had fake credentials and wasn’t the stellar leader the school had been led to believe. But these kids aren’t the first
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Target CEO: Maybe that Transgender Bathroom Announcement Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All 0
- Culture
- April 7, 2017
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday ran a lengthy report in its business section titled “How Target Botched Its Response to the North Carolina Bathroom Law.” The story focused on Target’s controversial decision in April 2016 to publish a blog post responding to North Carolina’s decision to pass a law requiring transgender people to use
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Should Schools Teach Students to Shoot?0
- Culture
- April 7, 2017
Several years ago, Intellectual Takeout released the popular image below pondering why rifles and target practice are no longer a part of school activities today. Needless to say, the image generated a lot of debate and discussion. But while rifle practice is still taboo in many American schools, one school in the U.K. has made
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Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity 0
- Politics
- April 7, 2017
Via Ilya Shapiro at Cato: “Thursday’s removal of the filibuster – a parliamentary tool effectively requiring 60 votes to proceed with a vote on a matter – for Supreme Court nominees is the long overdue denouement of a process that began not with Senate Republicans’ refusal to vote on Merrick Garland, or even Harry Reid’s
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Does Trump Have the Authority to Attack Syria?0
- International
- April 7, 2017
Recently President Donald Trump authorized a missile attack on a Syrian air force base in retaliation for the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in the ongoing Syrian civil war. Republican Senator Rand Paul was quick to criticize the leader of his party for violating the U.S. Constitution, since he neither made a formal declaration
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Are We Witnessing a Quiet Revolution in Education?0
- Economics
- April 7, 2017
There’s an old adage which suggests that money is a great motivator. According to a recent article in U.S. News and World Report, Idaho schools seem to be discovering the truth of that sentiment. As the article reports, Idaho schools began a new experiment last fall when they opened a $4,000 education account for every
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Why Men No Longer Treat Women as Ladies 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2017
Considering Hillary Clinton’s proclamation that women need to break through the glass ceiling, or the variety of policy makers discussing the gender wage gap, or even the throngs of women protesting in pink pussy hats, it would seem that women are suffering from decided oppression and inequality in the 21st century. It was against such
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The Truth About Spider Bites in Australia 0