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Portugal is Winning the War on Drugs 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2017
For more than 100 years the United States has looked to prohibition to curtail the use of drugs. Proponents argue that by making substances like marijuana, cocaine and heroin illegal, government can significantly reduce drug-related crime, prevent addiction and stop the spread of drug-related disease. The results have been less than impressive. In fact, Michael
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Police Cite Bogus ‘New Law’ to Get Uber Driver to Stop Recording 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2017
Jesse Bright was driving Uber when he was pulled over by Wilmington, N.C., police officers, who arrested the passenger he was driving. When police asked to search Bright’s vehicle, he politely declined and informed officers he was recording the stop. Police didn’t seem to like that. They demanded Bright stop recording, and when he refused
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How J.R.R. Tolkien Used Middle-Earth to Reveal Who We Are 0
- Literature
- March 9, 2017
In his famous essay on fairy stories, J. R. R. Tolkien asserted that one of the most important facets of fairytales is that they hold up a “Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man”. The fairy story, Tolkien wrote, “may be used as a Mirour de l’Omme” (mirror of man), as something that shows us
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Homeschooler Edith Fuller Becomes Youngest Qualifier of National Spelling Bee 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2017
By now you may have heard of Edith Fuller. At the tender age of 5, she’s the youngest child to win a regional spelling bee. And because of this win, she will also be the youngest to ever compete in the national spelling bee in Washington, D.C. NPR explains how this little peanut took home
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Children Prefer Reading Books on Paper, Not Screens 0
- Education
- March 9, 2017
There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case. In a study of children in Year 4 and 6, those who had regular access to devices with eReading capability
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Apprenticeships Offering Students a New Way Forward 0
- Economics
- March 9, 2017
The push to send young people to college has grown by leaps and bounds in the last several decades. Perhaps, then, it’s no surprise that this great demand for college has driven the price to astronomical heights. For evidence of this price increase, one need look no further than the chart below from University of
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Why We Should Fear the Deep State 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
The notion of the “deep state” or a “state within a state” is creepy, to say the least. It indicates the existence of a shadowy group of unelected bureaucrats deeply embedded in the military-intelligence establishment secretly manipulating government policy. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute defines the ‘deep state’ as “nothing more than agencies and
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Why does International Women’s Day Ignore Motherhood?0
- Culture
- March 8, 2017
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day, an occasion for celebrating what is unique about women’s contribution to society: their irreplaceable role as mothers, homemakers, educators, nurses — in short, all the person-centred and nurturing activity that they typically excel at and with which they increasingly transform other professions and society at large. WHAT? Sorry!
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The Alt Right’s Intellectual Roots Go Way Back 0
- History
- March 8, 2017
Reading “How I Left the Left” is a solid reminder that there’s not much intellectual heft remaining on that side of the fence. If an ideology sets out to isolate the locus of evil in people’s very identity, it is pretty well spent. This, in addition to the failure of the socialist model everywhere it has
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