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3 Non-Medicating Ways to Reduce Anxiety in Our Children 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2016
It’s no secret that anxiety has been on an upward climb in the U.S. in recent years. According to Psychology Today, this is particularly true of young people, for “five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half
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How Leftists Fail at Leftism 0
- Economics
- May 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders thinks that free trade has been disastrous for the American worker. During an interview on Meet the Press, Senator Sanders bemoaned that American workers had to compete against the Vietnamese and said that he disagreed with all of the previously negotiated trade deals. In his opposition to free trade, Senator Sanders may think he is helping
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Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach 1
- Education
- May 17, 2016
Of all the teachers who enter the profession each year, nearly 17 percent of them will leave the classroom behind within five years. So when a teacher sticks around for almost 30 years, you have to admit that he is probably pretty experienced and knows what he’s talking about. Such is the case with John
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Adventures Outside the Comfort Zone 0
- Culture
- May 17, 2016
The biggest mystery of American politics is why the media failed to take Donald Trump’s campaign for the Presidency seriously. A year ago he was a just a vulgar buffoon; now he is the presumptive nominee of the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan and could easily become the next leader of the free world.
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How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning 0
- Education
- May 17, 2016
How can the wealthiest people make democracies worse? Plato investigates the question in Book VIII of the Republic. Socrates suggests there that, in pursuit of more and more wealth, oligarchic citizens within the democracy will exploit the lower economic classes, even to the point of undermining their own oligarchic economic interests. In other words, the oligarchs’
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Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students 0
- Education
- May 17, 2016
Have you ever wondered why the Nation’s Report Card shows that only 37 percent of America’s high school seniors are proficient in reading? If so, New York English teacher Todd Friedman might have an answer: bureaucracy. According to the New York Post, the award-winning teaching veteran recently got in trouble when he bought a bulk shipment of Frankenstein novels for
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