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Megyn Kelly: ‘I don’t like being the story.’0
- Culture
- April 7, 2016
Minnesota Public Radio has announced that it will be rolling out a new investigative unit, determined to “produce investigations of national substance”. The difficulty of doing so because advertisers and other moneyed interests can pull strings, MPR readily admitted to MinnPost: In an interview that took several months to come together (MPR being a bit
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Has the Public School System Become Tyrannical?0
- Culture
- April 7, 2016
One would think that if anyone has a right to pick a child up from school, it’s a parent, correct? But that’s not the case at a Texas school known as Bear Branch Elementary. As a local news station reports, “Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing.” The news
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Must a Jewish Baker Make a Nazi Cake?0
- Culture
- April 7, 2016
At the first-ever nationally televised debate between candidates for the Libertarian Party, the subject turned to a fundamental issue: the freedom not to associate. The subject concerned anti-discrimination law, particularly as it affects religion. Gary Johnson was asked whether he, as president, would retain laws that prohibit discrimination based on religion. He said he would,
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Parents Should Spoil Their Children… with Books 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
Have you ever noticed that more and more parents seem to be spoiling their children? But according to Naomi Schaefer Riley, there is one area in which parents should be encouraged to spoil their children. That area is books. As Riley implies, good parenting so often involves saying “no” to the demands and desires of
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Chicago Teachers Union Rally: ‘F-ck the Police’0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
On April 1st, the Chicago Teachers Union held a strike that shut down the district. The strike is ostensibly over changes in pension contributions, pay for experience, and other money related matters. According to ThinkProgress.org, “On Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union staged a strike. Union members picketed schools, held rallies at City Hall, the Cook
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Is conspicuous consumption the cause of plummeting birth rates?0
- Culture
- April 6, 2016
Keeping up with the Jones can drive families into debt and make them envious and miserable. But it could also be an important driver of low fertility rates, according to a mathematical model developed by anthropologists and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. “The areas were we see the greatest declines in
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