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Biden’s Misplaced Emphasis on One Gun

November 30, 2022
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Commentary We now know at least one of the priorities of the Biden administration during the remaining weeks Democrats control the House of Representatives. The president says he would try to “get rid of assault weapons.” Speaking to reporters at his Nantucket, Massachusetts, holiday house, Biden said: “The idea [that] we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be…

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The Age of Easy Money Is Over

November 15, 2022
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Commentary What began in 2008 and continued for the better part of 14 years appears finally to be coming to an end. The era of cheap money and credit is over. It’s hard to wrap one’s brain around the implications. It will affect all of business life and personal finances. It will dramatically change financial…

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How Did Twitter and Facebook Get So Bloated?

November 7, 2022
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Commentary Over the weekend, it leaked that Facebook, newly and absurdly named Meta after its worst-performing division, plans mass layoffs in hopes of saving the company from its one-year collapse of nearly 75 percent in market capitalization. In other words, Facebook is getting Twitterized. No longer will its 87,000 employees automatically continue to live a…

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The Front Lines of the Language Wars

October 5, 2022
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Commentary “Language is the perfect instrument of empire.”—Antonio de Nebrija, bishop of Ávila, 1492 The bishop was correct, in his time and ours. Spain proceeded to become the most powerful empire in the world over the following century, spreading her mother tongue across the Americas—just as the Roman army had imposed Latin across its sweep…

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How DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Can Lead to Tyranny | Daniel Ortner

August 2, 2022
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California universities are striving to have more and more diversity. Most California university jobs are asking for diversity statements, and candidates could lose out on getting the job if their diversity statement doesn’t match what the admissions office is looking for. But is this the best way to achieve more diversity? My guest is Daniel…

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Religious Fervor Among the Woke

July 8, 2022
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Commentary The woke have not only adopted the ideology of “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), and assertions such as “diversity is our strength” (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau), but adhere to these ideas not so much as preferred guidelines or scientific hypotheses, but as religious truths not to be questioned. Any misguided or…

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