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  • How I Caught Pope Francis Sharing Fake News

    How I Caught Pope Francis Sharing Fake News0

    Pope Francis is a pastor who loves telling stories. One of his most memorable is a vignette drawn from To Every Man a Penny, by the Scottish novelist Bruce Marshall. A young officer in the Gestapo has been condemned to death by the French Resistance after the Germans have evacuated Paris. L’Abbé Gaston, a wise

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  • Did Respect Go Out the Door When We Abandoned ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’? (See Chart)

    Did Respect Go Out the Door When We Abandoned ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’? (See Chart)0

    Not long ago, a young and recently married friend of mine confessed that she had encountered a bit of a disappointment in married life. Contrary to what many might think, her disappointment was not with her husband, or their home, or any other common aspect of a newlywed’s life. Instead, she mournfully declared, “Nobody calls

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  • Busting the ‘Free College’ Myth

    Busting the ‘Free College’ Myth0

    A new program just passed by New York’s state government promises “free tuition” for middle-class students to attend a public college or university in the state. While there are similar programs elsewhere in the US, this is the first to include four-year schools. All of the headlines include some variation of the term free college, which makes

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  • Tuition-Free College isn’t Free—But it Does Have Some of the Makings of a Pyramid Scheme

    Tuition-Free College isn’t Free—But it Does Have Some of the Makings of a Pyramid Scheme0

    Proposals to make public university and college attendance tuition free were floated by Democratic candidates during the 2016 presidential election primaries. Bernie Sanders was and still is one of its most ardent supporters. Hilary Clinton advocated it during the general election. For many Republicans—such as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and President Donald Trump—it is

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  • Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?

    Is Berkeley the Fort Sumter of a New Civil War?0

    Could the college town where the “Free Speech Movement” began be the place where it ends? That’s the question asked by Frances Dinkelspiel, writing in The Daily Beast, after covering the confrontation this weekend between far-left anti-free-speech groups and far-right pro-free-speech groups. “As a reporter who has covered Berkeley since 2009, when two journalists and

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  • Huffington Post Gets Duped By White Guy Posing as Feminist

    Huffington Post Gets Duped By White Guy Posing as Feminist0

    We warned you months ago: the news media needs to keep people angry. But a blog on the Huffington Post recently took “rage profiteering” to a new low. On April 13, HuffPo SA (South Africa) published on its Voices section an article bearing this headline: “Could It Be Time To Deny White Men The Franchise?”

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  • How Latin is Helping Inner City Youths Strive and Succeed

    How Latin is Helping Inner City Youths Strive and Succeed0

    In the last few years, there has been a resurgent interest in making Latin a part of the school curriculum. After all, the benefits seem too good to pass up, particularly those which show that Latin boosts reading, math, and science scores. It is likely these benefits that attracted a Philadelphia inner city charter school,

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  • Has School Choice Become a Purple America Issue?

    Has School Choice Become a Purple America Issue?0

    Gallup, one of the most trusted household names in national polling, recently asked Americans whether they agreed, disagreed or didn’t know enough to have an opinion about 15 of President Trump’s proposals or actions. School choice was one of the issues, and on the surface, the results weren’t all that surprising: 59 percent of Americans support providing

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  • ‘Jesus Was a Progressive Because He Advocated Income Redistribution to Help the Poor’

    ‘Jesus Was a Progressive Because He Advocated Income Redistribution to Help the Poor’1

    — “Jesus Christ Was a Progressive Because He Advocated Income Redistribution to Help the Poor” I first heard something similar to this cliché some 40 years ago. As a Christian, I was puzzled. In Christ’s view, the most important decision a person would make in his earthly lifetime was to accept or reject Him for

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