Culture

Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba 0
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- December 10, 2019
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for
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The Anti-Feminist Message Hidden in ‘Little Women’0
- Culture
- December 9, 2019
I’ve been bombarded with ads for the new “Little Women” movie for the last few months. It appears Google knows my preferences well, because, yes, I am curious to see it. But even while I’m curious, I’m also a tad apprehensive. Dana Stevens’ Slate review of the movie fails to quell these fears, for she
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The Pros and Cons of Kids With Smartphones 0
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- December 9, 2019
How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays.
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What Mark Ruffalo Doesn’t Know About Socialist Movies 0
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- December 9, 2019
Actor Mark Ruffalo wants us to believe that “Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children’s future.” Profound hypocrisy and ignorance are behind Ruffalo’s tweet. Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty and disease. Ruffalo has become a wealthy entertainer because of America’s economic and artistic freedom. Author Peter Schiff exposed
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Shots Fired: Some Thoughts on Guns and Gun Control 0
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- December 6, 2019
In 1961, when I was a 10-year-old living in Boonville, North Carolina, a town of 600 people, firearms were commonplace. Some of the townspeople hunted with rifles and shotguns, others kept handguns in their homes. High school kids drove to school with guns in their cars. That same year, there was one school shooting in
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It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’2
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- December 6, 2019
There are plenty of candidates for the worst Christmas song. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” comes off as the humanitarian equivalent of an “Arms of the Angels” ASPCA ad; “Here Comes Santa Claus” seems to be proselytizing for some kind of strange, syncretistic Christmas religion; and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is enough to
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