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  • Mike Rowe on the College President Who Ditched the Flag

    Mike Rowe on the College President Who Ditched the Flag0

    The other day, Mike Rowe, famed host of the Dirty Jobs show, made some interesting comments on the issue of flag removal and burning that’s been occurring on various college campuses. Per usual, Rowe’s comments challenged politically correct thinking and pointed out blatant inconsistencies: “At Hampshire College, The President, Jonathan Lash, has actually removed the

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  • Hollywood’s Disgraceful Hero-Worship of Castro

    Hollywood’s Disgraceful Hero-Worship of Castro0

    Hollywood romanticizes revolutionaries, seeing them as noble, rugged individuals with towering passion and idealism who fight and risk their lives to make the world a better place. Sometimes that view is deserved. But more often than not, given Hollywood’s left-leaning partisanship, it elevates brutal dictators to the status of misunderstood heroes. Thus it’s no surprise that

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  • C.S. Lewis on How the Ego Thwarts Prayer

    C.S. Lewis on How the Ego Thwarts Prayer0

    Do you ever pray? Pew Research recently posed that question to Americans and found that if the U.S. was a village composed of 100 people, just a little more than half would pray daily. Twenty-one percent would pray weekly or monthy, while 23 percent rarely would. I found this scenario interesting, particularly when viewed in

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  • Women Commit a Shockingly High Percentage of Sex Crimes

    Women Commit a Shockingly High Percentage of Sex Crimes0

    The Atlantic has an interesting report that seems to defy the conventional wisdom on sex crime and gender. New academic research suggests that women commit a stunningly high percentage of sex crimes. Via the Atlantic: Two years ago, Lara Stemple, Director of UCLA’s Health and Human Rights Law Project, came upon a statistic that surprised her:

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  • Why are so Many Millennials Emotionally Fragile?

    Why are so Many Millennials Emotionally Fragile?2

    Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere are well acquainted with snowflakes whose fragile beauty dissolves as soon as they land on solid ground. And now, from cry-ins, to test cancellations, to hotlines for women upset over “mansplaining”, the world seems to be overrun with snowflakes, poor millennials who have spent their lives

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  • When the Words ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ Become Heresy

    When the Words ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ Become Heresy0

    We live in a world of Orwellian doublethink and nonsensical newspeak. This has long been the case and nothing has changed. Way back in 1789, the tyrants of the French Revolution, under the pleasant-sounding slogan Liberté, Fraternité et Egalité threw people into prison in the name of liberty, committed fratricide in the name of fraternity,

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  • The Reason 3 in 4 Students Are Not Proficient in Civics

    The Reason 3 in 4 Students Are Not Proficient in Civics0

    Ever since the 2016 election ended with the triumph of Donald Trump, a number of commentators have expressed concern over the state of civics education in the United States, suggesting that it needs some serious attention. Judging by numbers alone, these critics aren’t far off, as only 24 percent of U.S. high school seniors are

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  • The Other Racists

    The Other Racists0

    It’s easy to battle racists and racism when they’re wearing their ideas on a t-shirt or an armband. When somebody says something like “The Mexicans are taking our jobs” or “The blacks are lazy” or “The Jews are running the world!”, you know exactly what you’re getting with that person. When people run around wearing

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  • NYU Serves Up Unique Way to Cut College Costs

    NYU Serves Up Unique Way to Cut College Costs0

    The news that the U.S. is preparing to forgive over $100 billion in student loan debt hit the news stand yesterday and left Americans either sighing or rejoicing. Regardless of which camp you fall into, the student loan forgiveness plan signals one thing that we can all agree upon: college has become way too expensive.

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