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August 30, 2019
Problem with Debates?

By: Donna Zuckerberg – washingtonpost.com – August 29, 2019 Anyone who regularly expresses ideas on the Internet — especially women who express ideas critical of men — has encountered that bane of online discourse, the man who appears seemingly out of nowhere to insist on a debate. He disagrees with the sentiment expressed and is certain he can overpower the author with…

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August 30, 2019
Next Recession and Millennials?

By: Annie Lowrey – theatlantic.com – August 26, 2019 The trade war is dragging on. The yield curve is inverting. Investors are fleeing to safety. Global growth is slowing. The stock market is dipping. The Millennials are screwed. Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees. But the…

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August 30, 2019
Gay Gene?

By: Pam Belluck – nytimes.com – August 29, 2019 How do genes influence our sexuality? The question has long been fraught with controversy. An ambitious new study — the largest ever to analyze the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior — found that genetics does play a role, responsible for perhaps a third of the influence on whether someone has same-sex…

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August 30, 2019
Why People Despise Religion

By: Timothy Egan – nytimes.com – November 1, 2018 You don’t hear much about Sister Norma Pimentel in the secular press. She’s not a wacko, a hypocrite, a sexual predator or a political operative. Her life’s work, she says, is guided by seeing “the presence of God” in migrant children in the shelter she oversees in the Rio Grande Valley — vulnerable souls…

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August 30, 2019
Dating Apps

By: Peggy Drexler – wsj.com – August 29, 2019 Chicago native Lola Vanderstrand was in her early 40s when she started looking for a husband online. She’d been married before, and she had her doubts about online dating. The site that she chose, Match.com, didn’t appeal to her at first, but Ms. Vanderstrand quickly realized that dating online was forcing her…

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August 30, 2019
Are Americans Living Off The Fumes Of Religion?

By: Daily Wire – dailywire.com – August 28, 2019 Don’t take my word for it, it’s not just insinuation. This is according to a new poll out — from [the] Wall Street Journal and NBC — which shows American values are shifting dramatically. Gradually then suddenly. This is from the article. “Patriotism, religion and having children rate lower among younger generations…

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August 30, 2019
Electoral College Is NOT ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters

By: Tara Ross – dailysignal.com – August 27, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to hate on the Electoral College. Once again, she has the nation up in arms about America’s unique presidential election system. The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then on Friday afternoon,…

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August 30, 2019
Democrats Overconfident in 2020?

By: Matt Mackowiak – washingtontimes.com – Wednesday, August 28, 2019 The power of incumbency has never been greater in modern American politics. This is especially true for the president of the United States. The last three incumbent presidents were reelected, and four of the last five were. Head-to-head polls right now show many of the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates leading President Trump…

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August 30, 2019
Veterans Affairs Secretary Affirms Religious Freedom

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – August 26, 2019 As a kid, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie recalls, he visited a VA hospital at Christmastime. “One of my fondest memories growing up, we used to sing Christmas carols at the VA hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” Wilkie told The Daily Signal, sitting in a 10th-floor office at VA headquarters on Vermont Avenue…

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August 30, 2019
Vice President Pence Speaks to American Legion

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – August 29, 2019 Veterans gave Vice President Mike Pence a standing ovation on Wednesday when he told them about the Trump administration’s reversing of the bans on religious symbols in veterans hospitals, declaring flatly, “The Bible stays.” Pence was discussing specifically a New Hampshire lawsuit when he addressed the 101st American Legion National Convention in Indianapolis in…

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August 29, 2019
Defending Biblical Morality

By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – August 28, 2019 Christian Moore is an eight-year-old in Wichita, Kansas. On his first day of school this year, he noticed that a fellow classmate named Connor Crites was crying. Christian walked over, took Connor’s hand, and led him into their elementary school. He didn’t know that his new friend is autistic. Christian’s mother took…

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