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The Profession that Dare Not Speak Its Name 1
- Culture
- January 10, 2019
Hello, my name is Emma and I’m a stay-at-home mother. Or…no…wait! I’m a work-at-home mother. Actually, it might be more accurate to say that I’m the chief executive officer of my home. Whenever I try to tell people what I do with my life, I get tangled in semantic knots. There is always someone around
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The Ironies of Illegal Immigration 0
- Culture
- January 10, 2019
Estimates suggest that there are 11 million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. Millions more emigrated previously and are now U.S. citizens. A recent poll revealed that one-third of Mexicans (34 percent) would like to emigrate to the United States. With Mexico having a population of about 130 million,
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George Bernard Shaw Was so Enamored with Socialism He Advocated Genocide to Advance It 0
- Economics
- January 10, 2019
In an excerpt from her recently published book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen Ghodsee freely quotes from the works of the playwright and Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw to bolster her argument that capitalism is inherently sexist. The free market forces women to be reliant upon men, wrote Shaw, turning sex into a virtual bribe for financial
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Data Show California Is a Living Example of the Good Intentions Fallacy 0
- Economics
- January 9, 2019
During a speech at Harvard several years ago, Charlie Munger related a story about a surgeon who removed “bushel baskets full of normal gallbladders” from patients. The doctor was eventually removed, but much later than he should have been. Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, wondered what motivated the doctor, so he asked a surgeon who
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Is There a Case for Keeping the Lights on in America’s Libraries?0
- Culture
- January 9, 2019
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges Like Borges, Americans have long treasured libraries. From Benjamin Franklin, who helped put together one of America’s first lending libraries, to Andrew Carnegie, who funded more than 2,500 libraries, to Laura Bush, whose foundation has provided millions of dollars to
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Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech 0
- Politics
- January 9, 2019
President Donald Trump made the case Tuesday night for the $5.7 billion he wants Congress to approve for a wall expanding the physical barrier along the southern border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs. The Daily Signal examined five of the president’s claims in his 10-minute speech from the Oval Office. 1. “All Americans
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