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  • 5 Surprising Numbers from Election Night

    5 Surprising Numbers from Election Night0

    The election is over and we’re all digging out from a rather surprising night. Here are five interesting facts you may have missed in all the hubbub: 1. Trump May Lose the Popular Vote As of this writing, over 119 million votes have been counted, showing a gain in turnout from the 2012 election. In

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  • ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’

    ‘You Want Racial Politics? We’ll Give You Racial Politics!’0

    Get out the Doritos. Pop the top on your Bud Light. Go down to your man cave, plop down on your La-Z-Boy, invite your friends over and turn on the Packers game. Here come the White people. CNN commentator Van Jones, clearly upset by the results coming in last night, claimed that Democrats got “White-lashed.”

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  • Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’

    Unfortunately, Most Voters Are ‘Idiots’0

    On the first Tuesday of November millions of Americans will turn out to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, most of them are probably idiots. Now, I don’t mean that as an insult based on the modern sense of the word “idiot”, i.e., someone who is simple and stupid. It’s more of a lament based on the ancient

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  • The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?

    The Last Hurrah of Old, White America?0

    I’ve been told that once an approaching tsunami is sensed, many animals move inland to escape destruction. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. What is true is that old, white America – the America that remembers apple pie and Jesus Christ – senses its impending, cultural doom.   In this line of work, I have

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  • Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go

    Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go0

    There’s a growing narrative on college campuses that today’s students are oppressed and victims of insensitivity. Such a feeling seems to be particularly held by female students, who believe that their oppression is exacerbated by their gender. But according to scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, these young women need to get over their sensitivity and ditch

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  • Family’s College Savings Raided by the Government

    Family’s College Savings Raided by the Government0

    James Slatic was sitting in a breakfast meeting when he heard the news. An employee who worked for him and his medical marijuana business, Med-West Distribution, called to tell him he arrived at Med-West’s facility in San Diego, California, to find “25 police cars” outside. It was Jan. 28, and on that day, an estimated

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  • College Coeducation Was No Triumph of Feminism

    College Coeducation Was No Triumph of Feminism0

    The 1960s witnessed a major shift in higher education in the Anglo-American world, which saw university life upended and reshaped in profoundly important ways: in the composition of student bodies and faculties; structures of governance; ways of doing institutional business; and relationships to the public issues of the day. Coeducation was one of those changes.

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  • A 1791 Warning on Voter Fraud

    A 1791 Warning on Voter Fraud0

    We made it. Election day is FINALLY here. That means we can end the shouting, the arguments over who did this or that, and the accusations over whether or not voter fraud exists. Er, wait… scratch that last one. Accusations over voter fraud are more likely to intensify as the voting comes to a close.

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  • 6 Reasons We’re in Trouble No Matter Who Becomes President

    6 Reasons We’re in Trouble No Matter Who Becomes President0

    Approximately half the U.S. population will wake up tomorrow (or soon after) with a sense of general satisfaction. The person for whom they voted (perhaps grudgingly) will become the next president of the United States. Even if they do not love the candidate, they will be affirmed. America is not crazy, they will think. The

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