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Trump is Still OK With Cops Taking Your Sh*t 0
- Politics
- February 8, 2017
Donald Trump is going after one of the few issues proven to be a unifier across party lines: civil asset forfeiture. This legal tool allows law enforcement to seize money and physical property from those merely suspected of criminal behavior. Unfortunately, there is no conviction requirement, meaning confiscation can occur before suspects have been given
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Torture Cannot Be Condoned By Civilized Nations 0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Until relatively recently, the notion that torture was wrong was a proposition to which everyone assented; governments that practiced torture lied about what they were doing. Under the Bush Administration, in the wake of 9/11, the reluctance of officials to admit that what they had authorized was torture, or their insistence that it was at
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Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education 0
- Education
- February 8, 2017
As we know, the legislators in Congress are supposed to represent all of us, the Joe Averages in the streets and lanes of the nation. Our legislators know this too – or at least they know how to give lip service to the idea. In all likelihood, it is this mentality of needing to represent
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Is Trump Fudging Murder Stats to Claim More Power?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Donald Trump appeared deeply confused this week as the president declared today that “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.” Perhaps Trump confused the word “highest” with “lowest” since he would be far closer to the truth if he said the homicide rate in the US is “the lowest
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A Catholic Priest’s Observations on Islam—in 1851 0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Rummaging through some antique books recently, I came across a volume of church history from 1851, originally written in German by a Catholic priest, Dr. Giovanni Alzog, and translated into Italian. The volume, translated Universal History the Christian Church, covers the period from 400 until just before the Protestant Reformation. Naturally, the author had occasion
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5 Causes of the Civil War (Besides Slavery)3
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
As I type, the secession movement in California is picking up steam. Polling shows that one in three Californians support leaving the Union following Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign, and an organization–YesCalifornia.org–is circulating a petition calling for a special election that would allow Californians to vote for or against independence. The movement is unlikely to
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What’s Really Wrong with American Schools 0
- Education
- February 7, 2017
With the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education, it’s a good time to think about what’s wrong with our schools and what will have to be done to fix them. DeVos is most notable for her efforts in support of school choice. School choice is important, but it is only
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This Overlooked Statistic May Explain America’s Education Problems 0
- Culture
- February 7, 2017
It’s often said that America’s education system hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years. Supposedly it’s stuck in the industrial age and needs to be revamped to keep with the times. But while that may be true, it’s not the case that the education system has avoided all changes. It has changed… and perhaps
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The NEA’s 14 Principles–From 1908 0
- Culture
- February 7, 2017
Have you ever wondered what the Nation’s largest teacher union (the National Education Association or the NEA) thinks about religion, the Bible, and character education? I honestly don’t think I’d ever given it much thought until the other day when I unearthed a set of the organization’s 14 principles from 1908. They were so surprising
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