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Just an Average Person Turning the World Right Side Up 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2020
A friend of mine was recently venting woes to me in the midst of his bad day. Grumpily recounting his attempt to cool off by walking to a nearby store to buy a soda he said, “I got halfway there and I realized, ‘I don’t have my mask!’” His frustration over this last straw was
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DC Mayor Embraces Report Calling for Removal of Washington Monument 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2020
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday she looks forward to advancing the recommendations made in a report that urged her to remove, relocate, or contextualize the Washington Monument because of its “disqualifying” history. District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions (DCFACES) said in a report Monday that it was tasked with evaluating whether statues
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Debunking NPR’s Bizarre ‘In Defense of Looting’ Interview 0
- Culture
- September 1, 2020
Most listeners tune into NPR to catch up on the news on their commute home in the afternoon. But, increasingly, the state-run media outlet’s audience is instead being treated to far-left political arguments – sympathetically aired and left unchallenged. On August 27, the public radio station aired an interview with the author of the book In Defense
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Why the State Seeks to Abolish Both Tradition and History 2
- Culture
- September 1, 2020
In the opening monologue of the much-beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the milkman compares life for the Jewish inhabitants of the village Anatevka to the balancing act required of a fiddler scratching out a tune on a rooftop. According to Tevya’s famous allegory, the people of Anatevka are able to keep their balance
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Just the Facts That We Refuse to Believe 0
- Politics
- September 1, 2020
“Just the facts, ma’am.” This saying is attributed to Police Sergeant Joe Friday on the popular television series “Dragnet,” though Friday actually said, “All we want are the facts, ma’am.” Friday and his partner made evidence and facts the center of their investigations before drawing conclusions. Today facts in our public square are as difficult to
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Beware of the ‘Fact Checkers’0
- Politics
- September 1, 2020
We live in an age in which information is far more accessible than ever before. However, so is misinformation. How can we sort out one from the other? Well, some people who call themselves “fact checkers” claim to have the answer. They say, “Trust us.” But all-too-often, they fail to get even basic facts correct.
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