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Partisan Politics is Propaganda 0
- Politics
- April 6, 2017
This morning’s Drudge Report has a rather ominous headline: The headline is in reference to the so-called “nuclear option” that Senate Republicans may deploy in trying to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court. Currently, 60 votes are required for a Supreme Court nominee to proceed to final passage. But Democrats are threatening to
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Former Yale Student Says He Was Persecuted for a Philosophy Essay that Triggered a TA 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2017
An unnamed former student of Yale University—John Doe—is suing Yale, accusing the Ivy League school of gender discrimination and alleging “gross mishandling” in its Title IX investigation of alleged sexual misconduct. The lawsuit, the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal article written by Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is one
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America’s ‘Hostility to Reading’ – 4 Reasons for it 0
- Education
- April 6, 2017
Does America have a reading deficiency? It depends on whom you ask. Those optimistic about our country’s reading prowess may point to the fact that 74% of Americans read at least one book in the past 12 months, or that book revenues in America increased last year to nearly $28 billion. But those who argue
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After Studying Basic Econ, Mayor Vetoes Minimum Wage Hike 0
- Economics
- April 6, 2017
There can be no denying that legislatively speaking, the Fight for Fifteen movement garnered huge wins during the last election cycle both on city and state levels. No matter how much success or popularity an initiative manages to earn at the ballot box, there are economic laws that cannot be avoided, even when good intentions
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3 Reasons the Dutch Have the Happiest Children in the World 0
- April 6, 2017
According to the recently released World Happiness Report, many of the happiest nations are those found in the Germanic portions of the world. One of these is the Netherlands. But the Netherlands doesn’t just contain happy adults; it contains happy children as well, as author Rina Mae Acosta explains in an interview for MarketWatch. As
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Neil Gorsuch Deserves Confirmation 0
- Politics
- April 5, 2017
Party politics, tactics and strategy have dominated everything in government and media. he is the model candidate for the Supreme Court as the next justice to fill the vacancy of Justice Antonin Scalia. His credentials are impeccable, his character and judicial temperament unassailable, his reputation among peers and law clerks sterling and remarkable. His judicial
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‘The Red Pill’ is a Film Feminists Find Hard to Swallow 0
- Culture
- April 5, 2017
Intellectual humility—the acknowledgement that the truth is more important than your version of it—requires you to be open-minded enough not only to listen to an opposing viewpoint but to be willing to change yours when you are wrong. It is a quality in short supply and sadly undervalued in our age of arrogance. Filmmaker and
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Turkey on the Brink of Democide as Pivotal Referendum Looms 0
- International
- April 4, 2017
The Turkish people will vote in a momentous constitutional referendum on April 16. If adopted, the proposals would drastically alter the country’s political system. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) introduced the 18 proposed changes to the constitution, with the support of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Together they secured the minimum 330
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Socialist Mechanic Schools Agitators Disrupting Charles Murray Speech 0
- Culture
- April 4, 2017
Charles Murray was heckled and interrupted again, this time at the University of Villanova, where students formed a “silent protest” that was anything but. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took a video of the scene (see below), which is worth watching for several reasons. Much of the video is standard fare: A
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