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What Makes Christmas Movies So Popular?1
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
If you are one of those people who will settle in this evening with a hot cup of apple cider to watch a holiday movie, you are not alone. Holiday movies have become firmly embedded in Americans’ winter celebrations. The New York Times reports a massive increase in new holiday movies this year. Disney, Netflix,
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Transferism, Not Socialism, Is the Drug Americans Are Hooked On 0
- Economics
- December 6, 2019
The United States has never had a meaningful socialist tradition or even a semi-serious socialist party. Socialism in the United States is a fringe movement at best and always has been. This makes the sudden acceptability of socialism all the more surprising. But with one avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders, campaigning for the presidency for a
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Tech and Role Reversals Have Made Both Sexes Unattractive 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
Transsexuality affects around 0.6 percent or an estimated 1.4 million of the 327 million people in the U.S. and yet the media and the radical left has curiously made trans people’s experience central to our imaginations and regularly propose policy changes that purport to benefit them. I am skeptical. From my (admittedly not very broad) experience of trans
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It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’2
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
There are plenty of candidates for the worst Christmas song. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” comes off as the humanitarian equivalent of an “Arms of the Angels” ASPCA ad; “Here Comes Santa Claus” seems to be proselytizing for some kind of strange, syncretistic Christmas religion; and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is enough to
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Shots Fired: Some Thoughts on Guns and Gun Control 0
- Culture
- December 6, 2019
In 1961, when I was a 10-year-old living in Boonville, North Carolina, a town of 600 people, firearms were commonplace. Some of the townspeople hunted with rifles and shotguns, others kept handguns in their homes. High school kids drove to school with guns in their cars. That same year, there was one school shooting in
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Christmas After Communism: One Man’s Story 0
- Culture
- December 5, 2019
During the holiday season I usually come across at least one social media picture of families seeking to give back. This can be through serving a meal at a homeless shelter, volunteering at Feed My Starving Children, or even packing a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. That last activity has become a longstanding tradition in
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