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Independent Voices Sing in Symphony 0
- Culture, Religion
- December 14, 2023
One of my earliest memories of classical music is accompanying my father and older brother to hear Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony when I was 7. The symphony conveyed pure magic, filling my head with sonorous themes and exquisite harmonies, permeating the whole of my being. Enveloped in an emotional reverie, I was struck by an unbelievable
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California Mandates ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Sections in Department Stores 3
- Culture, Featured
- December 13, 2023
California continues to face a scourge of shoplifting, with rates of the crime rising almost 29 percent in 2022, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. This trend shows no sign of abating, as the 2023 rates in Los Angeles indicate. Instead of addressing this pressing issue, however, California legislators have overseen the passage
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Why a New IRS Change Will Push Some Entrepreneurs Into Corporate Desk Jobs 0
- Economics
- December 13, 2023
As the end of the year approaches, the IRS has announced its new late repayment penalty rate. The rate has climbed from around 3% two years ago to 8% today. Most workers in the US are W-2 employees and have taxes deducted from their paychecks each pay period. However, if those employees claim more exemptions,
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Standing Up For Free Speech 0
- Donate
- December 12, 2023
When I was talking recently with Suzanna, a COVID vaccine–injured American and advocate who we are profiling in Intellectual Takeout, the question arose of why she speaks on the harms of the vaccine despite her physical maladies resulting from it and the potential consequences she faces for doing so. “Why do you do it?” she
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At Harvard, Calls for Genocide Depend on Context 1
- Education, Culture, Featured
- December 12, 2023
Calling for a genocide against Jews is permissible at Harvard University, so long as such speech is not “targeted at an individual” and does not cross “into conduct,” according to Harvard President Claudine Gay. Gay delivered her jaw-dropping pronouncement under oath on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. She did
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Why Ordinary People Enable Totalitarians 4
- Culture, History, Politics
- December 12, 2023
Cicero said history “casts light on reality and is a guide to life.” The wisdom gained by understanding the past helps prevent the same errors from being repeated. Sebastian Haffner pursued answers to the questions of how the Nazis rose to power in Germany and why the German people did not stop them. In 1939, he wrote
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