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November 2017

Teaching Reason to College Students Enslaved by their Appetites and Feelings

Adam J. MacLeod, (from the clan MacLeod–did you do that with the accent?) recently shared a speech he gave to his students in an article titled, Undoing the Dis-Education of Millennials. Adam teaches Law and has found that many of the students in his class while bright and ready to learn, “cannot think, don’t know …

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Another example: when illegal immigrants are fired, American workers get higher pay

We keep hearing that illegal immigrants are a “boon” to our economy – this example (like the meat packing plants of a few years ago) shows that American workers see a “boon” when illegal immigrants, working at lower wages, are removed from the workplace (reformatted, emphasis mine): A huge Chicago bakery is now hiring Americans …

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Data Point – House sales rising country wide

Reformatted, emphasis mine: Sales of new, single-family U.S. homes reached their highest level in ten years due to an increase in housing demand across the country. The Commerce Department released a report Monday stating that home sales rose 6.2 percent, the highest increase since October 2007, according to Bloomberg Markets…Reuters polled several economists who originally predicted that new home …

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College Student’s Anti-Free Speech Move Could Land them In Jail for A Year

A UC Riverside Student (Edith Macias) snatched a Make America Great Again hat off another student and then proceeded to go into a vulgar rant, on video, which will now serve as evidence against the student for charges that could land them in jail for a year. “According to California’s Penal Code 487, grand theft is …

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Because Dancing Leads to Intercourse

A friend of mine once scribbled idly on a piece of paper (about 30 years ago), “Because Baptists believe intercourse leads to dancing.”  He was joking about how some Baptists believe dancing leads to intercourse. Alcohol increases the risk, and underage drinking is not prohibited at Princeton (not exactly), so perhaps that is why they (Princeton), or more …

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Kathleen Sibelius And David Axelrod Toss Bill and Hillary Under the Bus

David Axelrod had Kathleen Sebelius on his Podcast during which both added their voices (or is that knives) to the slaying of Ceaser (and his annoying wife who won’t go the hell away). Yes, they all knew, but they did worse than nothing. As Mark Steyn reminds us below the left, the media and the feminists defended …

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