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3 Reasons the Dutch Have the Happiest Children in the World 0
- April 6, 2017
According to the recently released World Happiness Report, many of the happiest nations are those found in the Germanic portions of the world. One of these is the Netherlands. But the Netherlands doesn’t just contain happy adults; it contains happy children as well, as author Rina Mae Acosta explains in an interview for MarketWatch. As
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Partisan Politics is Propaganda 0
- Politics
- April 6, 2017
This morning’s Drudge Report has a rather ominous headline: The headline is in reference to the so-called “nuclear option” that Senate Republicans may deploy in trying to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court. Currently, 60 votes are required for a Supreme Court nominee to proceed to final passage. But Democrats are threatening to
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The Teen Who Wrote #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times on Stanford Application—and Got Accepted—is Emblematic of a Growing Problem 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2017
Many of you may have seen the story by now. Via NBC: “After completing his Stanford application, high school senior Ziad Ahmed realized an important component was missing amid a flurry of standardized test scores and extracurricular activities: his voice and passion. That’s when Ahmed took a gamble. In response to a question asking “What
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Telling Women They Don’t Need Men is Not Helpful 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2017
It is a question that has been debated for years: Do women need men? Nationally syndicated Radio Host Dennis Prager recently discussed this topic on his show and it got me thinking. Feminists often argue that women, especially women who have been formally educated, do not need men. Women should stay focused on their careers
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Former Yale Student Says He Was Persecuted for a Philosophy Essay that Triggered a TA 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2017
An unnamed former student of Yale University—John Doe—is suing Yale, accusing the Ivy League school of gender discrimination and alleging “gross mishandling” in its Title IX investigation of alleged sexual misconduct. The lawsuit, the subject of a recent Wall Street Journal article written by Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is one
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Students asked to Defend Nazis and the Holocaust in Homework Assignment 0
- Education
- April 6, 2017
“Okay class, today’s assignment is to write an essay about ‘The Final Solution’ the plan created by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jewish people and others they deemed to be not worthy of life. I want half of you to make an argument in favor of the plan, and half of you to argue against it.”
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