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  • ‘Imagine’ a New National Anthem

    ‘Imagine’ a New National Anthem0

    Attempts to erase or denigrate our country’s past are now routine. Men and women once regarded as heroes and great Americans are regularly attacked as racists, sexists, and capitalists, their statues of remembrance removed in the popular sport of statue-toppling.          Sadly, such contempt for our past and for America’s ideals was

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  • New, Ultra-Woke Methodist Denomination Proclaims God’s ‘Kin-dom’

    New, Ultra-Woke Methodist Denomination Proclaims God’s ‘Kin-dom’0

    A group of breakaway Methodists announced the formation of the Liberation Methodist Connexion (LMX) on Sunday, November 29, further fracturing what was once the United Methodist Church, as the farthest left portion of believers take their leave. The LMX website declares that the denomination seeks to build God’s “kin-dom”—I guess the word “Kingdom,” despite being

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  • There Is a More Beautiful Melody Than Fear

    There Is a More Beautiful Melody Than Fear0

    “Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?” is a working paper by Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, and Molly Cook recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The authors found that media coverage of COVID-19 has been much more negative in the U.S. than in international media. They found, “Ninety one percent of

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  • Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits

    Costs Must Be Weighed Against Benefits0

    One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is in stark contrast to lessons in the political arena where politicians virtually ignore cost and talk about benefits and free stuff. If we look only at the benefits of an action, policy or program, then we will do

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  • The 27-Year-Old Infant

    The 27-Year-Old Infant0

    I’ve been watching The Mandalorian lately. It’s not my favorite Western and I am not a Star Wars fanboy, but I admit that it is entertaining. The best character is Baby Yoda, an infant of an alien species with big ears, which, I am told, has no name. The interesting factoid, for the purposes of

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  • Sippin’ Starbucks No More

    Sippin’ Starbucks No More0

    The fate of Betsy Fresse, an evangelical Christian who refused to don a gay pride shirt in accordance with instructions from her manager in a Starbucks store in New Jersey is explained with remarkable concision in a recent Reuters article: A former Starbucks Corp barista in New Jersey sued the coffee chain on Thursday, claiming she

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