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Opinion.

Another year, another $2 trillion in U.S. debt

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Just two weeks after he was sworn into office, former President Ronald Reagan went on national television to address the American people about what he perceived to be a dire problem. It was the national debt. “The federal budget is out of control, and we face runaway deficits of almost $80 ...

How AI is undermining our education system

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If you want to develop human intelligence, you can’t let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts ...

Obamacare always was, is and will be a problem in the United States

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President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, in 2010 without a single Republican vote in the House or the Senate. When Obama announced it to the nation, Vice President Joe Biden could be heard on a hot mic telling Obama, “This is a big f—-ng deal.” It was no ...

Give blood in the New Year

Editorials

If your New Year’s resolutions included finding small ways to do good more frequently, the American Red Cross has some ideas for you. You — yes, you — are needed, right now. A glance at the organization’s website reveals an alert that there is an “EMERGENCY NEED for type O blood” ...

Some wrong predictions … oh, just never mind

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End of the year predictions about the future have been around at least since the days of Nostradamus, but what about past predictions? There were plenty that electing Donald Trump the first time and then re-electing him, would cause economic Armageddon. Democrats and their media mouthpieces ...

Harvard says yes to discrimination, no to Western civilization

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At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts. Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn’t — “The Golden Thread: A History of the Western ...