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Another Harvey Victim: Feminist Actress Attacked for Advocating Modesty
An actress spoke in favor of modesty … and, predictably, she needed to apologize for it. In a New York Times op-ed piece recently, Mayim Bialik wrote this:
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Hold-It Nation: Why Massachusetts Women Are As Vulnerable As One of Harvey Weinstein’s Starlets
A little over a year ago, the Bathroom and Locker Room Law took effect, and women and children in Massachusetts were forced to forfeit their rights to privacy in order to protect the feelings of a tiny portion of our population. The 2016 "Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Act" was
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Why Opioid Solutions Are Emerging from the Private Sector
With swift vivacity and vulgar duplicity, the Massachusetts Legislature — and, as expected, the executive branch — effectively signaled that "bump stock" accessories to rifles, rarely used in crimes, pose a greater threat to Commonwealth residents than fentanyl-laced heroin, killing daily. Demands are made incessantly for so-called "common sense
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Trump Versus the Press Feud May Indeed Be ‘Dangerous’
For the feud between President Donald Trump and the press, there is no shortage of explanations. "Little Marco," "low-energy Jeb," and "Lying Hillary" have been vanquished. The Democrats are leaderless, and what leaders they have — Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
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Why Won’t the Church Use the G-Word?
Religious leaders from the Pope to television evangelists keep insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. We are told that Islam advocates many of the same life-sustaining rules and ideas as Christianity and Judaism. That most Muslims are peace-loving, are children of God and want the same things out
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One Reason for Fatherlessness, Family Breakdowns, Mayhem, and Social Injustice
Three news items to consider. Movie executive Harvey Weinstein is blanketing social media, as accusations of his sexual harassment and assaults multiply with every report. The fact that he's from the "Hollywood elite" and was a huge Democratic Party fund raiser makes him an easy target
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Congress on Education: If It Don’t Work, Don’t Fix It
So far as we know, low achievement hasn't been remedied by any of the strategies or programs that educators or policy makers have tried out since 1965 — the date of the first authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We've already made a mess of
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Cure for Tax-and-Spend? Try the Ellen Stern Test
The most illuminating recent article about the tax reform debate didn't appear on the front page of any newspaper. It wasn't in the business section, or on the editorial page. It was an interview that appeared on an inside page of the New York Times arts
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