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  • While Politicians Bicker, Medical Care is Quietly Evolving

    While Politicians Bicker, Medical Care is Quietly Evolving0

    Once upon a time, a doctor was the central figure in the community. He ran around with his black bag, tirelessly dispensing care to those whose physical difficulties and life habits he knew well. Today’s doctors still run around tirelessly, but now much of that tirelessness is devoted to filling out paperwork for insurance companies,

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  • The Blaze Shouldn’t Suspend Tomi Lahren for Her Abortion Comments

    The Blaze Shouldn’t Suspend Tomi Lahren for Her Abortion Comments0

    Tomi Lahren, a political commentator at the Blaze, was getting hammered from all sides for some comments she made on “The View” in regards to abortion. Then it got worse. The Washington Post is reporting that she has been suspended, which Lahren seemed to confirm with this tweet:   In case you missed it, here’s what

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  • Only Markets Can Defeat Poverty

    Only Markets Can Defeat Poverty0

    An interviewer just asked me the question following my usual call for markets in everything. It’s probably the 100th time this has happened. The question amazes me because the implication behind it implies that markets serve primarily the rich.  It’s hard to imagine a more profound confusion. The default state of the world is grueling poverty,

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  • Media and Trump Share Blame for the Death of Truth

    Media and Trump Share Blame for the Death of Truth0

    The Washington Post recently criticized President Trump’s Tweetstorm about being wiretapped, mocking his claims as baseless. They argue that he’s sowing dissent and making up facts to distract the media from important issues. The Post neglected to mention that the FBI and other agencies have been surveilling Trump’s advisors, or that in October the FBI

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  • How Motherhood Has Changed over the Generations

    How Motherhood Has Changed over the Generations0

    The other day I came across this article which showed photos of how motherhood has stayed the same over the years. It’s pretty special to think that the overflowing love, the joy, the struggles, the tiredness and so on, is a constant for mothers –  past, present and future. But there are a few things

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  • Grammarians rejoice in the $10 million comma

    Grammarians rejoice in the $10 million comma0

    Portland-based company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $10 million to 75 milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma in a legal clause. Last week, Judge David J. Barron upheld an appeal in a class-action lawsuit, opening his opinion with: “For want of a comma, we have this case.” Three

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  • David Cay Johnston: Journalism a Bastion for ‘Trust Fund Kids’

    David Cay Johnston: Journalism a Bastion for ‘Trust Fund Kids’0

    In a recent Salon.com interview, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston declared that the real problem with today’s journalism is not ideological bias or fake news. Instead, it’s the myopia journalists suffer from as a result of attending elite prep schools, growing up with silver spoons in their mouths and living off

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  • An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts

    An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts0

    A little over a year ago, it was reported that Australian schoolchildren were suddenly making dramatic gains in a number of subjects. The largest advances came in reading, with students increasing their “reading age” by over two years on average. The secret behind these dramatic gains was a little program called Sound Training, which uses

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  • Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won

    Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won0

    In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC

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