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Hans Rosling, R.I.P.0
- Culture
- February 9, 2017
Hans Rosling, the Swedish doctor and professor who saved countless lives in the world’s poorest countries (and gave many TED talks), died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. Last December, Nature had an interesting feature with him, discussing his life’s work. Rosling was an antidote to uninformed pessimism. As Nature noted: Rosling’s charm appeals to those frustrated by the persistence of myths about the
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Gridlock Increases Domestic Violence, Study Claims 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2017
Society pays a heavy price for traffic. It leads to lost time, more pollution and increased spending on gasoline. In metropolitan areas, road congestion in 2012 led consumers to waste 2.9 billion gallons of fuel and spend 5.5 billion hours sitting in traffic. According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the average commuter wastes 42
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Campuses Should Resist Canceling Controversial Speakers 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2017
I have no opinion on Milo Yiannopoulos, the editor at Breitbart News whose acceptance of an invitation to speak at the University of California Berkeley recently sparked a massive protest that turned into a riot. All I know is that he’s gay, Jewish, and lands somewhere on the right. I’ve never read anything he has written. I have never seen him
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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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