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Good Luck Deciphering This Academic Gibberish!0
- August 6, 2015
There is a special drudgery to much of academic writing these days. If you think some of it is incomprehensible, it is. But to the writer and a select circle, you are too stupid to understand it. So which one is closer to the truth? Back in the 1990s, Denis Dutton, a respected philosopher out
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The Out-of-Wedlock Birthrate is Going Up 0
- August 6, 2015
Take a look at the trend of births to unwed mothers in America since 1940: And now, more than half of all births to millennial women (of all races) in America take place out of wedlock. Should we be worried about this trend and the decline of child bearing within marriage? Well, statistically speaking, parents
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Today’s Man Bites Dog Story: Public School Teacher Takes On Unions 0
- August 5, 2015
Rebecca Friedrichs had a rude awakening as a young student teacher. Concerned about the physically abusive teacher in the class next door, she asked her own master teacher what they should do about the abuse. The answer she got? “Nothing.” Finding that these children were in harm’s way because their teacher was protected by unions
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6 Extremely Relevant Quotes from C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man 0
- August 5, 2015
Given the national debate raging about Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of human body parts to advance scientific knowledge, it’s worth turning to one of the 20th century’s noted philosophers on the relation of power, man’s desire for scientific knowledge, and what, if any, ethics should rein in our desires. Below are six extremely relevant quotations from
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To Mow or Not to Mow?0
- Culture
- August 5, 2015
There was a hubbub in the Washington Post a while back over an Ohio woman’s refusal to mow her lawn. In defiance of her town’s ordinance, Sarah Baker let her lawn of nearly one acre go. Her arguments for neglecting to mow include the desire to have “a working ecosystem,” “to attract wildlife and build
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Should We Try Separating School and Sports?0
- August 5, 2015
Like many school districts across the country, Virginia’s Fairfax County school district is struggling with budget shortfalls. Rather large budget shortfalls. As in $50 – $100 million budget shortfalls. Monday found the district trying to figure out where to make cuts: “A task force looking to cut as much as $100 million from the budget
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