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  • Why This City Is America’s Murder Capital

    Why This City Is America’s Murder Capital0

    Sean Kennedy at RealClear Investigations wrote an interesting short feature breaking down crime in America. There are a couple good nuggets in the piece. First, can you guess the city with the highest murder rate in the U.S.? I suspect most people couldn’t—even if they were given five guesses. (I know I wouldn’t have.) Via

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  • Why a College Democrat Activist Left the Party

    Why a College Democrat Activist Left the Party0

    College junior Michael Hout is passionate about politics and ideas. His major in political science confirms that, as does his active participation in the College Democrats and other political activities. But in a recent op-ed for The Washington Post, Hout explains that he has decided to leave his privileged status as a prominent Democrat at

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  • The Religious Origins of Groundhog Day

    The Religious Origins of Groundhog Day0

    Americans know today, February 2, as Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil is brought out of his tree-trunk in Northwestern Pennsylvania to determine how much longer winter will last. For Christians, it’s also the Feast of Candlemas. Most people assume that Groundhog Day and Candlemas are not connected, but in fact—as I recently discovered—they are! The

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  • Student Disrespect Takes Down Another Teacher

    Student Disrespect Takes Down Another Teacher0

    In case one needed further evidence that American schools are in chaos, the video below will put any doubts to rest. The clip, taken at Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis shows two female students in a tussle with an older male teacher. According to local news channel KSTP, the teacher got the raw end

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  • Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World

    Raising Honest Kids in a Post-Truth World0

    All kids have a sometimes-fluid relationship with the truth. I have often wished that I had the skills of an FBI profiler, especially when faced with the smiling cherubs in front of me who certainly look like they have been up to something, even as they insist they have not. Kids can lie like an

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  • People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber

    People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber0

    We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait”. Those who

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  • Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices

    Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices0

    Last month, National Geographic declared, with the help of an exploitive picture of a pink-clad transgender child, that America is in the midst of a gender revolution. Everything, it seems, is now being looked at through the lens of gender, including our choices about what to eat. According to a recent article in the Washington

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  • The News Media Needs to Keep You Angry

    The News Media Needs to Keep You Angry0

    I work for a nonprofit whose activities largely center around digital media. But lately, I wish I could just get away from it all. There’s way too much anger right now in that sphere, and much of it is being driven by news media. The mainstream news media would have you believe that they are

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  • Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch

    Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch0

    Neal Kathal, an acting solicitor general in Barack Obama’s administration and a law professor at Georgetown, says that liberals should support Neil M. Gorsuch, whom Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court Tuesday evening. Via the New York Times: I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last

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