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A Note to Politicians: What Average Americans Want 0
- Culture
- January 3, 2020
On New Year’s Eve, four of my siblings, their spouses, and I gathered at my sister’s house in Asheville, North Carolina. A table covered with side dishes and hors d’oeuvres, wonderful conversations and reminiscences, and glasses raised at midnight: it was a memorable New Year’s Eve party. The party continued the next morning with more
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A Manhattan Whole Foods’ Homeless ‘Policy’ Endangers Others 0
- Culture
- January 3, 2020
The degradation of human life in major American cities astonishes and alarms. In San Francisco, the homeless defecate in the streets and supermarkets. In New York, violent attacks on orthodox Jews by a small minority of black anti-Semites seem to be almost daily occurrences. What follows is yet another astonishing story. It involves a major corporation, not “progressive” government
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2019 Was a Bad Year for ‘Only Cops Should Have Guns’0
- Culture
- January 2, 2020
On December 29, an armed gunman entered the West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas and shot two members of the congregation. Within six seconds, a third member of the congregation drew a weapon and shot the gunman dead. The events were captured on live-streamed video, with the dramatic events – in the minds of many observers – highlighting
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Good News: Some Reasons to Celebrate the New Year 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2020
Let’s jump into 2020 by looking at some good news. In The Spectator, Matt Ridley reports we’ve just had the best decade in human history. He kicks off his article with this paragraph: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in
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Three Ways the U.S. Will Change in the 2020s 0
- Culture
- January 2, 2020
The U.S. has just entered the new decade of the 2020s. What does our country look like today, and what will it look like 10 years from now, on Jan. 1, 2030? Which demographic groups in the U.S. will grow the most, and which groups will not grow as much, or maybe even decline in
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Biden: Put the Energy and Insurance Executives in Jail 0
- January 2, 2020
Presidential candidate Joe Biden is calling for jailing energy executives. On Sunday, he called for first “doing away with any substance for fossil fuels.” After that, he said, fossil fuel executives need to be held “liable for what they have done,” especially to “underserved neighborhoods.” Then, “when they don’t want to deliver, put them in jail.
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