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  • There Ain’t No Such Thing as ‘Free Love’

    There Ain’t No Such Thing as ‘Free Love’2

    TANSTAAFL with its triple repetition of the letter “A” is an acronym popularized by science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein meaning, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” TANSTAFL with a double A is my play on Heinlein’s contrivance: “There ain’t no such thing as free love.” Free love may bring to mind that term

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  • Angela Davis for Aunt Jemima: A Plan for Woke Product Packaging

    Angela Davis for Aunt Jemima: A Plan for Woke Product Packaging1

    Quaker’s “Aunt Jemima” has been replaced by the Pearl Milling Company. “Mrs. Butterworth” and “Uncle Ben” have followed her into the dustbin of history, all because these venerable product images ran afoul of current ideological purity tests. Woke ideology is rolling like an avalanche through corporate America, and removing these objectionable products is one of the chief ways these

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  • Woody Allen, Bill Buckley, and the Cancel Culture That Wasn’t

    Woody Allen, Bill Buckley, and the Cancel Culture That Wasn’t0

    Every once in a while something pops up on YouTube that knocks me for a loop. I was messing around there recently when I found “Woody Allen Looks at 1967,” a variety show hosted by the comedian in which he featured guests like actress Liza Minnelli and singer Aretha Franklin. Nothing unusual there, but then

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  • Financial Censorship of America First

    Financial Censorship of America First0

    Another day, another de-banking. Imagine a ruthless country where peaceful citizens who fearlessly defend their heritage, their families and their faith can wake up in the morning and find themselves cut off from their entire life savings with no explanation and no recourse. That country is not Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, or Iran. That

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  • The Wrong Turn of Civil Rights

    The Wrong Turn of Civil Rights0

    The civil rights movement is often placed on a pedestal today with an almost religious fervor, with its own Christ-like figure in the form of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Such an attitude is on display in a recent, generally incisive critique by Victor Davis Hanson on the breakdown of lawfulness and the eruption of crime in

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  • Let’s Aim High: Our Kids and Their Education

    Let’s Aim High: Our Kids and Their Education0

    Twelve-year-old North Carolinian Mike Wimmer recently graduated as valedictorian of his high school class while simultaneously earning an associate’s degree at his local community college. Cooped up like everyone else during the pandemic, young Wimmer decided to go to a full court academic press and add some classes to his schedule. “Well we’re sitting here doing nothing, right?

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