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Stand Strong When Your Kids Go Off The Rails

“I will always be your mother” is one of those cliché phrases you might have heard often as a kid. It hung low on your list of parenting truths, down with conversation-enders like, “Because I’m your...

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Get Ready For Racial Quotas On Your Neighborhood

President Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is plotting a power grab under a new rule that came into effect this past July, and we have the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on disparate...

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Facebook’s Going Out Of Style Because It’s A Garbage Dump

For several months in 2015, I checked Facebook maybe once every couple weeks. During that time, I didn’t reflect very deeply on why I was avoiding Facebook, but simply knew it wasn’t really enriching...

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5 Times Trump Told You He Loves Big Government

We all know them: friends and relatives, even media personalities, who we thought were hardline conservatives are now swooning over Donald Trump, the next great savior of the Republic. Over...

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Don’t Write Off Ted Cruz Because You Don’t Like Him

Earlier in the primary season, when the frontrunners were just beginning to emerge, I expressed concern that Cruz was untrustworthy. It wasn’t just my vaguely bitter recollection of Cruz’s actions in...

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5 Reasons Ted Cruz’ ‘Divisiveness’ Could Be An Asset

The media continue to spin the narrative that Ted Cruz is “divisive,” implying he wouldn’t be an effective president. Radio host Michael Medved, whom I respect and grew up listening to, commented just...

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Surrogacy Means Uteruses For Rent And Babies For Sale

Surrogacy arrangements are ripe for legal and ethical messes, as the case of Melissa Cook shows. She is a 47-year old gestational surrogate who delivered triplets several weeks premature. She was...

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Does Generation Z Really Defy Gender Norms?

A study by the Innovation Group has media outlets buzzing about how Generation Z—those born between 1995 and 2012—utterly defies the gender binary. Only 48 percent of the marketing research group’s...

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Say Goodbye To Choosing Your Neighbors And Local Tax Rates

The feds are out to squash the not-in-my-backyardists, this time with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. We’re not just talking about crippling the ability of local governments to design...

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No, Maternity Leave Is Not ‘Me Time’

I hope to take at least a few weeks off from work when I give birth to my first baby in October (Lord willing). And I don’t expect a minute of that “time off” to be about me. But Meghann Foye,...

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A Baby’s Kick Changes Everything About Abortion

Since I found out I was pregnant, stories about violence to children have made me feel quite literally sick. This deeper horror in the pit of my stomach exacerbated the morning sickness. From the...

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Giving Birth Is Nothing Like Being Drafted Into Combat

I’m facing down the imminent pains of childbirth in a matter of months, and no, being a mother is not more valiant, risky, or self-sacrificial than serving in combat. In a recent article, Valerie...

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I Don’t Hate Black People If I Refuse To Rush Judgment On Shootings

Temporarily suspending judgment on the recent police shootings of black men Philando Castile and Alton Sterling does not mean I don’t think black lives matter. David Marcus wrote recently here at The...

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5 Money Myths Keeping Millennials Poor

Thanks to the Internet and self-help publishers out to make a quick buck, your head is full of bad ideas about happiness, income, lifestyle, and the relationships between them. What makes these bad...

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No Party Owns My Vote

Comedian Trevor Noah recently went off on Bernie Sanders supporters, saying, “If you’re a Democrat and you say, ‘I’m not voting for Hillary,’ then you are voting for Trump…Let’s not beat around the...

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Conservatives Are The New RINOs

Donald Trump is the new face of the Republican Party. The presidency is so important that, try as pundits may to downplay the GOP presidential nominee’s success and diminish his credibility as a leader...

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Let’s Deregulate Everyone Instead Of Applying Outdated Rules To New Ideas

In an attempt to appease the taxi lobby, the government of Massachusetts has decided a five-cent tax per trip on ridesharing services (out of a total 20-cent fee) should directly subsidize the local...

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Attention, Pick-Up Artists: The Headphones Mean No

The Guardian recently ran an op-ed against an article that’s inflamed some feminist sensibilities, and some common ones, too. In the controversial article, a pick-up artist who goes by Dan guides less...

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Cosmo Tells Girls They’re Helpless Victims Of Their Own Reproduction

A recent article in Cosmopolitan by a pro-abortion activist Destiny Lopez would have their readers, who are mostly young women, believe that a 40-year-old federal funding provision called the Hyde...

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For Sufferers’ Sake, Explore The Hidden Side Of Suicide

It’s hard for many of us to empathize with those who contemplate taking their own life, to imagine the state of mind and spirit someone must be in to take such a drastic step to end his suffering. But...

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