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Whatever Happened to Coffee Shop Courtesy?1
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
“I’ve become that guy who sits in the corner and keeps his opinions to himself.” I am working away on my laptop in a coffee shop that serves as my second home when the man at the nearby table speaks those words. Here’s a sixty-something guy, a little worse for the wear, who for the
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Why the U.S. Must Become an ‘Aspirational’ Society Once Again 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2018
When a society feels that the solution for poverty is for the poor to have the opportunity to become rich through hard work and self-improvement, you have an aspirational society. The United States could be classified by this term once upon a time, but in more recent years it has morphed into an envious society
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Homeschool Is Unconstitutional? That’s What Brazil’s Supreme Court Ruled.0
- Education
- October 18, 2018
The supreme court of Brazil, the Federal Supreme Court (STF), referred to as the “Enlightenment vanguard” by Minister Barroso, recently ruled that the practice of homeschooling is unconstitutional. The trial occurred on September 12, and nine of the ten ministers present for the ruling rejected parents’ right to practice homeschooling. The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 is considered
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Want Low Income Taxes? Don’t Live in This State.0
- Economics
- October 18, 2018
Taxes are the price that regular people pay for government spending. Whether that spending goes to things and services that people want, like road repairs, schools, fire and police protection, trash pickup, public parks, or to things that people don’t really want, like sports stadiums or excessively lavish pension benefits for bureaucrats, the bill for all these
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Why Women With Large Families Are Not Stupid 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2018
Have you ever heard the saying, “Don’t mess with Mama,” or even the snarky quip, “If Mama Ain’t Happy, Ain’t Nobody Happy”? If so, it would appear you are ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron. He recently exhibited his ignorance about poking Mama Bear by stating the following at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Summit: “I
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Barbarians At The Banquet 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2018
A reader shared this with me, and gave me permission to post it, on the condition that I edit it to prevent others from identifying this school or group. Which I have done: So I was in a long-established, semi-scholarly fraternal organization at an elite American university. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in it, because
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