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  • Rachel Dolezal’s Argument That She’s Black Is Perfectly Logical

    Rachel Dolezal’s Argument That She’s Black Is Perfectly Logical0

    Rachel Dolezal became famous two years ago when, as the ostensibly African-American head of the NAACP, it was discovered that she wasn’t Black at all, as she had always claimed. Rather than admit that she had simply lied, she instead began arguing that, despite the biological reality that she was a Caucasian, she really was Black.

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  • Six Graphs that Reveal Big Problems for Student and Auto Loans0

    The New York Fed’s most recent household debt report showed ballooning debt and delinquency in student and auto loans. Total household debt has just about reached its previous late-2008 high of over $12.5 trillion.

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  • Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values

    Companies Want to Teach Your Children Values0

    About ten years ago Dove released a short film with the slogan “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. It warned of the detrimental effects of unrealistic body image expectations communicated to young girls through advertisements. Reading this article in The Atlantic, I couldn’t help but agree that in recent times advertisers have even

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  • Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement

    Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement0

    Over the weekend, 60 Minutes featured an unusual story about the small, backwoods area of Franklin County, Mississippi. Like much of Mississippi, Franklin County isn’t exactly known for its wealth or educational excellence. But that may be changing, particularly in regards to the latter, thanks to a man known as Dr. Jeff Bulington. According to

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  • Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’

    Milton Friedman on ‘the Major Fault of the Collectivist Philosophy’0

    Economist and University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) spent more than 30 years teaching, and won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his contributions in the field of economics. He was also one of the first intellectuals to see cracks forming in 20th-century collectivism. In his 1951 essay “Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects,”

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  • Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government

    Steve Bannon: Not a Fan of Limited Government0

    Writing in The New York Times Magazine about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives: What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families

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