Culture

A New Year’s Feud In the Land of MAGA 0
- Culture
- December 26, 2019
Dear Uncle Dan, I hope you are well and still making friends. I’m sorry to hear the parole board turned you down, but there’s always next time. While shopping for Christmas, I ran into your ex, and Vera’s crude remarks tell me communication with her is a no-go. (She’s still bitter about your entanglement
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Up In Arms: The Battle Over Guns in Virginia 0
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- December 23, 2019
Political war clouds are gathering over the Commonwealth of Virginia. This past November, when the Democrats captured both chambers of Virginia’s legislature, Democratic State Senator Dick Saslaw introduced a bill for the 2020 session, SB16, which would more strictly regulate the purchase of firearms and ammunition, and would include “red flag” laws allowing authorities to
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Intellectual Takeout’s Five Favorite Christmas Movies 0
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- December 23, 2019
The staff at Intellectual Takeout and the Charlemagne Institute participated in a highly non-scientific poll to crown our favorite Christmas movies as we prepare for Christ’s coming this Advent. More than a dozen movies were listed in our staff’s top three picks for movies to get cozy with during Christmastime, but five stood aloft from
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Gollum and the Spirit of Christmas 0
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- December 23, 2019
When we think of writers associated with Christmas, Dickens would no doubt come to mind, as, perhaps, would Chesterton. It is unlikely, however, that the name of Tolkien would spring to mind. In Tolkien’s works, such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, set in Middle-earth, there is no place for Christmas for the
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Why Are Women Proposing to Their Boyfriends?0
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- December 20, 2019
The world would be a much better place if men would step back and let women take the lead. At least, that’s what former president Barack Obama thinks. Speaking at an event in Singapore, Obama said, Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is
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Why Are so Few People Born on Christmas and Other Holidays?0
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- December 20, 2019
Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather with family and friends. One thing many typically don’t celebrate on those days is a birthday. That’s because Dec. 25 is the least popular day in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand to give birth. In England, Wales
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