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  • US Supreme Court to Hear Bombshell Censorship Case, Missouri v. Biden

    US Supreme Court to Hear Bombshell Censorship Case, Missouri v. Biden0

    “We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.” So said Jen Psaki, then-White House press secretary, in July 2021. They were words that would return to haunt the Biden administration and its sprawling network of faceless federal thought police. Over two years later, the highest court in the land has agreed to hear arguments

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  • Educating the Whole Child

    Educating the Whole Child3

    When I was little, I used to play teacher with my sister. I would write letters on a little chalkboard and sound them out for her in an effort to teach her to read. Later, as a teen, while working at some horse stables, my boss recognized in me a gift for teaching and appointed

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  • Friday Comic: No0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) Twitter: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • Alerting Ourselves To Death

    Alerting Ourselves To Death2

    I was driving home from a cello lesson when I thought to myself, It is very hazy outside today. I didn’t think much more of it until about an hour later when my phone notified me of an air quality alert for my county. The air had elevated particulate matter levels that fall within the “unhealthy

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  • Politics and Compassion: Finding Common Ground Through Empathy

    Politics and Compassion: Finding Common Ground Through Empathy3

    While liberals tend to view conservatives as cold-hearted, rule-bound, and self-interested, right-wingers often consider left-wingers irrational, sensitive, and destructive. Both characterizations, are, of course, exaggerations, and they fail to recognize the political common ground of human empathy and compassion. In the far-off days before he was famous, Jordan Peterson, along with some colleagues, published research

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  • Are Electric Vehicles Worse for the Environment Than Gasoline-Powered Vehicles?

    Are Electric Vehicles Worse for the Environment Than Gasoline-Powered Vehicles?2

    Electric vehicles require enormous damage to the environment just to produce their batteries — 250 tons of mining is required for a single battery, according to Real Clear Energy. Switching to electric cars would require a radical expansion of mining across the world, and the minerals for the car batteries will be refined mainly using the

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  • Parents Just Can’t Let Go

    Parents Just Can’t Let Go2

    Parents want to give their kids more independence but just can’t bring themselves to do it. That’s the conclusion of a study from the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital that came out this month. While parents believe it’s important for elementary school kids to do things “away from direct adult supervision,” the study

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  • Why Are People Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters?

    Why Are People Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters?1

    Of the many troubling protests seen since the Hamas pogrom of October 7, surely among the most callous are those involving pro-Palestine activists ripping down posters of Israeli hostages. Some 235 Israelis were taken captive by Hamas terrorists, according to the American Jewish Committee. To date, only four abductees have been released. Of course, this

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  • Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?

    Is Halloween a Christian Holiday?4

    Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday was thoroughly Christian from the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the beginning of

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