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  • How This Teen Entrepreneur Created a Million-Dollar Candy Empire

    How This Teen Entrepreneur Created a Million-Dollar Candy Empire1

    Alina Morse is a typical 14-year-old girl in a lot of ways. She goes to high school, likes to dance, and lives with her parents. Did we mention she also runs her own international candy empire? Oh. Well, she does. The story begins with a trip to the bank when Morse was seven. She asked

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  • Keeping the Right Away from the Left

    Keeping the Right Away from the Left0

    My 16-year-old recently texted me one of those where-do-you-fall-on-the-political-spectrum quizzes. She was curious to see how my results compared to those of a friend of hers who speaks fondly of socialism. His results were predictably leftist, though not as authoritarian as one might fear. So, I suppose there’s hope. I’ve been encouraged lately by some

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  • Henry Ford Did More for Workers than Unions Did

    Henry Ford Did More for Workers than Unions Did1

    A Car for the Masses When Henry Ford came up with the Model T, his goal was to build a car for the masses. Although history teachers typically present this as pertaining to price, Ford actually had to do much more than make his automobile cheaper. In fact, when the Model T was released in

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  • The Postal Service Bleeds Cash in the New Year

    The Postal Service Bleeds Cash in the New Year0

    As 2020 kicks off, the gift-giving season already feels like it was eons ago. But to the beleaguered and overextended United States Postal Service (USPS), the frantic pace of holiday shipping will continue well into January.  Thanks to increasingly generous, “no questions asked” returns policies by leading e-commerce sellers, an astounding one third of shipped packages

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  • California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work

    California’s Latest Act of Idiocy: Killing Freelance Work0

    If there’s one thing the California government is good for these days, it’s failing to address crises that glaringly exist while creating new crises that shouldn’t exist – and then shifting the blame when everything goes wrong. A new California law set to go into effect in the new year is the latest example of misguided legislation hurting the

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  • The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes

    The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes0

    Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have led the charge to add many zeros to what some Americans should be given at others’ expense. As a result, they have doubled (or tripled) down on an “old reliable” claim of the left that “the rich” don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. But that excuse to tax

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