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Racial Quotas in Special Education Hurt Minorities Most 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
Is it OK to sacrifice a child’s education in the name of preventing racial stereotyping? In a sane world, the answer would be “no.” But to the Obama administration, the answer was apparently “yes.” Because it thought that black and Hispanic children were wrongly stereotyped as needing special education, it issued a regulation in 2016
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Why the Alt-Right is Against Capitalism 0
- Economics
- December 19, 2017
Some people on the left are starting to worry about getting trolled by the alt-right. This is because the alt-right has become aggressively anti-capitalist, pro-welfare state, and in favor of a government that specifically promotes white interests, not a free market that offers no privilege to anyone. “The alt-right is looking to expand its ranks,”
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Massachusetts Adopted Common Core – and It’s Beginning to Show 0
- Education
- December 19, 2017
Massachusetts has long been known as a leader in American education. As early as 1647, the state decreed that every sizeable town form a school to ensure that children learn to read and write. The state’s prominence in education has continued through the 21st century, in which Massachusetts is often held up as a model
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Final Tax Bill: Middle Class Gets Biggest Cut 0
- Economics
- December 19, 2017
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has released its distributional analysis of the final Republican tax bill. The bill provides even larger percentage cuts for middle earners than previous versions of the legislation. If the legislation is enacted, higher earners will pay an even larger share of the overall income tax burden than they do now. Our
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Cheating Linked to Unfaithful Parents, Study Finds 0
- Religion
- December 18, 2017
Marital fidelity doesn’t come easily. When the cheating website Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015, it was revealed that the company had some 37 million users. The same year, in a YouGov survey, one in five Americans admitted to being unfaithful. If these numbers don’t persuade you, consider the words J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to
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The Original ‘War on Christmas’ Was Waged by the Puritans 0
- Culture
- December 18, 2017
Much ink is spilled every December over the “War on Christmas”—a perceived assault, led by secular folk, on the public acknowledgment of the holiday. But in fact, public-spirited “warfare” against Christmas goes back a long way in our history, and it was carried out by very religious people. The New England Puritans’ hostility to the
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