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The Daily Signal… 4 Steps to Better School Security, Steven Bucci
March 27, 2018 - America has continued the heated debate as to what must be done to adequately protect our children at schools. Some (mistakenly) just say “ban guns,” or at least the ones they don’t like. Others (I am afraid equally mistakenly) say just put more guns into schools. The answer is more complex, however, and will take more effort than.
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25 of the Most Influential Women in American History, Chrissy Clark
March 28, 2018 - Women’s History Month, established in 1987, is a celebration of women’s efforts across the nation to make the world a better place for females. Before the month is out, let’s not forget our female forefathers, um, that is foremothers. These are the ladies who paved the way for women to have a place not only in the house, but the Senate.
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The Daily Signal… The Real Reason We Have Mass Shootings, By Walter E. Williams
March 21, 2018 -- One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in our responses to the recent Parkland, Florida, massacre. Part of the responses to those murders are calls to raise the age to purchase a gun and to have more thorough background checks—in a word, to make gun purchases.
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The Daily Signal… 6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings, John G. Malcolm & Amy Swearer - March 16, 2018 - In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to resolve, it is vitally important to supply... read more
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The Daily Signal… Shootings Are a Morality Problem, Not a Gun Problem, By Walter E. Williams
March 07, 2018 -- Before we discuss violence with guns, I’d like to run a couple of questions by you. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every day nearly 30 Americans die in motor vehicle crashes that involve drunk driving. What kind of restrictions should be placed on automobile ownership? Should there be federal background checks in order for people.
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The Daily Signal… The Parallels Between the Gun Debate and the Opioid Crisis, By Star Parker
March 07, 2018 -- By now, most have heard about the deadly opioid epidemic that has struck our nation. According to data compiled in a Kaiser Family Foundation report, there were 42,249 casualties in 2016 related to opioids. This is double the 21,089 reported in 2010. For a little perspective, given all the attention guns are getting these days, per the FBI, in 2015 there were 13,455 murders.
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The Daily Signal… 4 Examples of Extraordinary Presidential Leadership, John Venable
February 15, 2016 - There’s no better way of celebrating our presidents around Presidents Day than by remembering a few of their extraordinary acts of courage. Here are four examples highlighting when past presidents have displayed clear leadership: George Washington. When King George III asked what General Washington would do after he led.
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Inside Higher Education… Taking the Pulse of a Class, By Colleen Flaherty
February 20, 2018 -- Even defenders of student evaluations of teaching admit they’re flawed. A top contention is that students are almost always asked to evaluate a professor at the end of a course, when they no longer have a personal incentive to help that instructor teach better. Enter ClassPulse. Part of a growing market of products that allow students to offer anonymous, instantaneous feedback.
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The Daily Signal… Go Green With Gasoline If You’re Going to Consume That Sandwich, David Kreutzer - January 30, 2018 - A new study shows that if you aren’t ready to go vegan to save the world, then you should quit riding your bike and take a car. An article in the Journal of Insufferable Busybodies (official title: Sustainable Production and Consumption) calculates the carbon footprint for a variety of sandwiches. These carbon footprints include carbon dioxide... read more
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The Daily Signal… Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Teen, Young Adult Employment Rates, Kyle Perisic - February 15, 2018 - A new study shows that raising the minimum wage has played a role in the decline of teen employment and the labor force participation rate, which has fallen by about half since 1994. The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, examined three possible factors to explain why teen employment has... read more
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NPR… How To Talk With Kids About Terrible Things, By Cory Turner
February 18, 2018 -- For the more than 3,000 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Wednesday's mass shooting was terrifying and life-changing. But what of the tens of millions of other children, in schools across the country, who have since heard about what happened and now struggle with their own feelings of fear, confusion and uncertainty.
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Young Children Are Spending Much More Time In Front Of Small Screens, Anya Kamanetz
It's not your imagination: Tiny tots are spending dramatically more time with tiny screens. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, just released new numbers on media use by children 8 and under. The nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes with children now have a mobile device such as a tablet or smartphone.
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NPR… What Do Asthma, Heart Disease And Cancer Have In Common? Maybe Childhood Trauma, Cory Turner - "Trauma" is a heavy and haunting word. For many Americans, it conjures images of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The emotional toll from those wars made headlines and forced a healthcare reckoning at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, would like to see a similar... read more
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Why We Don’t Need Libel and Blackmail Laws, Walter E. Williams
January 24, 2018 - President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.” The president was responding to statements made in Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the.
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My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the Bible, Dennis Prager
January 09, 2018 - I won’t make any assumptions about how many readers noticed I took a three-month break from column writing. Nevertheless, I want to explain why. I needed the time to finish the first volume of the biggest project of my life as a writer, a commentary on the first five books of the Bible, or what are called the Torah in Hebrew. The.
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The Daily Signal… Why We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy, Walter E. Williams
January 17, 2018 - Hillary Clinton blamed the Electoral College for her stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential election in her latest memoirs, “What Happened.” Some have claimed that the Electoral College is one of the most dangerous institutions in American politics. Why? They say the Electoral College system, as opposed to a simple.
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The Daily Signal… Martin Luther King on the Limits of Civil Disobedience, Peter C. Myers
January 14, 2018 -- More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled with remembrances of Martin Luther King Jr. because in it falls the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination. It will also be a year filled with remembrances of 1968 itself as the culminating year of the 1960s, a year in which the country seemed divided even to the breaking point. In many such.
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The Daily Signal... You’re Never Ready to Get Married. But That Shouldn’t Stop You. Dennis Prager - January 02, 2018 - In every age, people say and believe things that aren’t true but somehow become accepted as “conventional wisdom.” The statement “I’m not ready to get married” is a current example. Said by more and more Americans between the ages of 21 and 40 (and some who are older than that), it usually qualifies as both meaningless... read more
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The Daily Signal… George Washington’s Sterling Character Set an Example for the Ages, Richard Lim - December 23, 2017 - For most Americans, the 23rd of December has no particular significance. But an extraordinary event happened on that day in 1783 in Annapolis, Maryland, that stunned the world. Gen. George Washington stood before the Continental Congress in Maryland’s State House and resigned his commission as the commander-in-chief of... read more
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The Daily Signal… What We Can Learn From Reagan About Celebrating Christmas, Lee Edwards - December 22, 2015 - San Bernardino. Boston Marathon bombing. Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Paris Bataclan Theater massacres. Jihad, Islamic State. Caliphate. Syria, Iraq, Libya. Freddie Gray. Ferguson and Michael Brown. Assisted suicide. Whatever happened to peace on earth and good will to men? In times like these when I am thinking how... read more
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Inside Higher Education… Narrowing the Terms of Tenure, By Colleen Flaherty
December 13, 2017 - University of Arkansas professors want to stall a vote on system policy changes they say would upend the definition of tenure. Many fear the system is trying to focus on the vague concept of collegiality. It’s hard to build faculty consensus on anything, but professors across Arkansas and colleagues elsewhere are speaking out against proposed.
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Even the Best Laws Cannot Save Our Society, Walter E. Williams
December 13, 2017 - I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because I’m from prehistoric times. As such, it points to one of the unavoidable problems of youth—namely, the temptation to think that today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at a few of the differences between.
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Findlay Courier… Tots unwrap true meaning of Christmas, By Jeannie Wiley Wolf
Sat. Dec 9th, 2017 - CAREY — The tradition of Christmas School is alive and well in Carey. This year marked the 44th year for the annual five-day event meant to teach preschoolers about the true meaning of Christmas. “I inherited this,” said the Rev. William Schultz, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church which hosts Christmas School each year. “When.
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NPR… A Tech-Based Tool To Address Campus Sexual Assault, Anya Kamanetz
December 6, 2017 - Jessica Ladd was sexually assaulted while at Pomona College, just as one in five college women are. She says she found the reporting process, "more traumatic than the assault" itself. She felt "like I didn't have control. A lack of agency. I wasn't believed, and ended up regretting reporting." Ladd, now 31, put her experience "in a box.
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The Daily Signal… Celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving, Jarrett Stepman
November 20, 2017 - For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly nauseating affair.
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