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  • Pass a Literacy Test to Vote?

    Pass a Literacy Test to Vote?0

    • August 19, 2015

    The above image is a literacy certificate which one of our staff members brought to the office. The certificate belonged to her father, who emigrated from Germany in the 1920s. It took him five years to become a citizen and two more years to pass the literacy test that used to be required for immigrants

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  • Another Lesson in Economics

    Another Lesson in Economics0

    • August 19, 2015

    Have you seen this one? If you’re not familiar with what’s happening, the government of Venezuela embarked on a socialist experiment and it’s not going well. Promising prosperity for all, Venezuela’s government under Hugo Chavez took over many private industries, established price controls, and hoped to fund everything through state-owned oil exports. With the crash

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  • For Money could not Keep

    For Money could not Keep0

    • August 19, 2015

    While sometimes it seems clichéd to bring up the German Weimar Republic of the 1920s, it’s still a good lesson on what happens to a people and a nation under hyper-inflation. Too often individuals will try to draw direct parallels to the Weimar Republic and the United States. Are there reasons to be very concerned

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  • Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools

    Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools0

    • August 19, 2015

    Unsocialized religious freaks living in the sticks. That’s how many critics view homeschoolers. But according to TIME magazine, it’s an uninformed caricature of an increasingly popular form of education. “Today, as many as 2 million—or 2.5 percent—of the nation’s 77 million school-age children are educated at home, and increasing numbers of them live in cities.

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  • Thank you, PolitiFact!

    Thank you, PolitiFact!0

    • August 19, 2015

    If you’re familiar with the federal government’s budgeting process and you follow social media, your head has probably exploded at least a dozen times when you see misleading information circulated as truth. Of course, countering it every time is exhausting. Who wants to take the time to go dig up the budget, make the images,

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  • A Letter from World War I

    A Letter from World War I0

    • August 18, 2015

    My great grandfather, Harold Schuler, served in the U.S. Army on the European war theater from December 1917 to May 1919. I’m not sure how much action he saw, but his notebook entry and letter below provides a small glimpse into what soldiers experienced during the “Great War.” Here is his notebook entry from August

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