Politics

Why We Fight: Putting Faces on Liberty 0
- Politics, Culture
- March 13, 2023
In early March, I headed down to the mountains of western North Carolina for a reunion with my siblings and their spouses. The weekend weather was beautiful, and as my Honda rolled south through the Shenandoah Valley, a drive I’ve made countless times, I was struck by the beauty of the hills and fields. The
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The Myth of Rural “Assistance”1
- Politics, Economics
- March 13, 2023
As the old country proverb goes, “if it’s happened once, it’s damned-shor’ gonna happen again.” Robert Wright’s forthcoming book, New Deals Exposed: How the Miseries of the Great Depression are Being Repeated Today, makes the convincing case that the sort of good-intentioned lunacy which marked New Deal policy failures is happening all over again, as the world
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Left-Wing College-Industrial Complex Lies 2
- Politics, Education
- March 8, 2023
Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they’d be in jail. Columbia University
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What Exercise and Economics Have in Common 0
- Politics, Economics
- March 7, 2023
With a background in both studying economics and working in the fitness industry, I can see how the two fields complement each other and together provide a valuable learning opportunity. I’ve found that the lessons I taught my fitness clients in the gym about the well-being of their bodies are similar to the lessons that
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Educating to Serve 1
- Politics, Culture
- March 6, 2023
Doom and gloom headlines are a dime a dozen these days, as people in the media continue to fixate on the problems in Washington, crime on the streets, and tragedies abroad. Thus it was that the following headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune caught my eye for the simple reason that it focused on something positive and
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The Clock Is Ticking for America 4
- Politics, Culture
- March 2, 2023
Yeonmi Park’s new book, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America, is a broadside against current American political indoctrination, which is a propaganda campaign that reminds Park of her adolescence spent living in a “dictatorship of the mind.” Park’s first book, In Order to Live, recounted her impoverished and brutal
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