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  • How Religion in America Differed From Religion in Europe

    How Religion in America Differed From Religion in Europe0

    I recently came across a bit of news noting that the Trump administration is considering overturning the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt charitable groups from endorsing political candidates and engaging in other forms of political activism. My own feelings on this issue are mostly ambivalent (for now) because I have not yet given the matter

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  • ‘This is What Police States Do’

    ‘This is What Police States Do’0

    “This is what police states do.” These words come from Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake, speaking of government spies selectively disseminating private conversations recorded by the NSA and FBI. Lake, a former senior security writer for the Daily Beast, was writing on what he called “the political assassination” of Michael Flynn, the man who now has

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  • Why Americans Refrigerate Eggs and Europeans Don’t

    Why Americans Refrigerate Eggs and Europeans Don’t0

    A few years ago, I bought some fresh eggs from a friend who owned chickens. They were wonderful. I’m not fussy about the topic so I can’t say that I go out of my way to get fresh eggs. I’ll take them when I can get them. However, I’ve long been intrigued by her instructions

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  • Study: Unhappy New Marriages Usually Turn in to Happy Ones

    Study: Unhappy New Marriages Usually Turn in to Happy Ones0

    Valentine’s Day is all hearts and flowers and mushy goodness. In the midst of all this mushy goodness, it’s sometimes a relief to view the day through a lens of reality, such as the one displayed in the meme below: For many parents, that last point is far more realistic than most would like to

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  • Nietzsche Wrote Love Poems (And They Are Just What You’d Expect)

    Nietzsche Wrote Love Poems (And They Are Just What You’d Expect)0

    The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably not the first person who comes to mind when you think about romantic love. For most of his life, Nietzsche was a solitary and lonely figure. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche railed against the evils of women, only to recant all that he’d written a paragraph later. He

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  • Is it Logical to Say that Health Care is a ‘Right’?

    Is it Logical to Say that Health Care is a ‘Right’?0

    In last week’s debate on Obamacare between former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, Sanders challenged Cruz to say that health care was a “right.” But what exactly does it mean to say that health care is a “right”? If you were to logically analyze the concept of “rights” you would discover that there

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  • Gender-Affirming Bathroom Policies ‘Quackery,’ Medical Experts Say

    Gender-Affirming Bathroom Policies ‘Quackery,’ Medical Experts Say0

    A decision by the US Department of Justice last Friday not to support Obama-era policies on transgender school bathrooms suggests that the LGBT activists are out in the cold.   Mr Obama’s Attorney-General, Loretta Lynch, made a promise to transgenders, especially students in public schools: “The Department of Justice and, indeed, the entire Obama administration

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  • Coming Apart: The Real Civil War is in the Democratic Party

    Coming Apart: The Real Civil War is in the Democratic Party0

    The Trump ascendency has thrown a monkey wrench into the political dynamics of both parties. But while it creates difficulties for establishment Republicans in their own party, it creates even bigger ones for Democrats. Democrats had hoped that the takeover of Trump would create a civil war in the Republican Party between the free-market, white-collar,

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  • Are Senators Who Attended Elite Schools Blind to the Plight of American Parents?0

    Following the vitriolic confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the U.S. Secretary of Education, Cheryl Kirk, a mother of three children in the Indiana school choice program, took to the web to write an open letter to Senator Al Franken about his opposition to school choice for families like her own. In Kirk’s eyes, it seemed

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