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Gender-Affirming Bathroom Policies ‘Quackery,’ Medical Experts Say 0
- Culture
- February 14, 2017
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 0
- Politics
- February 14, 2017
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
- Culture
- February 14, 2017
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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‘Native American’: The Surprising Source of the Term 0
- Education
- February 14, 2017
One could be forgiven for presuming that referring to American Indians as Native Americans is a modern phenomenon, a terminology perhaps ginned up by a professor at Berkeley in the 60s. In fact, the first known reference to Indians as Native Americans is believed to come from none other than America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. In
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Tennessee Admits One Third of High School Grads Didn’t Complete Their Coursework 0
- Culture
- February 13, 2017
In recent years, schools, educators, and other policy makers have pointed to the nation’s rising graduation rates as proof that America is fixing its education problems and is on the path to prosperity. But some have wondered if those graduation rates are artificially propped up by dumbed down standards. That suspicion was affirmed over the
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Slavoj Zizek: Don’t Mock Trump, Propose an Actual Vision 0
- History
- February 13, 2017
A minority of those on the Left have responded to Trump’s election with rational reflection and a critical look at some of their positions that were rejected by voters. However, the majority of the Left seem to be throwing a collective temper tantrum and resorting to all-too-familiar Alinskyite tactics to disparage Trump. Slovenian philosopher
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Plato Can Help You Find Love 0
- Culture
- February 13, 2017
Not only did early humans have both sets of sexual organs, Aristophanes reports, but they were outfitted with two faces, four hands, and four legs. These monstrosities were very fast—moving by way of cartwheels –– and they were also quite powerful. So powerful, in fact, that the gods were nervous for their dominion. Wanting to
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Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’: A Handbook for Totalitarians or a Guide for Thwarting Tyrants?0
- History
- February 13, 2017
Perhaps the most committed Italian republican of his era, Niccolo Machiavelli left what many consider to be a horrendous legacy. This perspective most often results from the The Prince, by far his most famous work. This group generally considers The Prince as a handbook of totalitarian impulse, containing the secrets of power consolidation. Indeed, even
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Federal Spending Grew Far Less Under Obama Than Under Bush 0
- Economics
- February 13, 2017
Now that 2016 is gone and President Obama is a thing of the past, we can take a look back at just how much government spending grew during his tenure. It seems that in his eight year tenure, Obama never managed to top the enormous increases in government spending that occurred under presidents Reagan and George
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Gender-Affirming Bathroom Policies ‘Quackery,’ Medical Experts Say 0