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April 21, 2022

RT by @BruceDGilley: The ultimate privilege is being so comfortable in your lack of gratitude for the free society you live in that in your search for status, money and/or approval, you actively disregard the core western values that allow you to be ignora

The ultimate privilege is being so comfortable in your lack of gratitude for the free society you live in that in your search for status, money and/or approval, you actively disregard the core western values that allow you to be ignorant in the first place.

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Published on April 21, 2022 16:04

April 20, 2022

April 19, 2022

I was also definitely worrying about how masks might impede my yoga class and make me feel unsafe and traumatized.

I was also definitely worrying about how masks might impede my yoga class and make me feel unsafe and traumatized.

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Published on April 19, 2022 18:51

Forcing faculty to use "preferred pronouns" is illegal compelled speech. Big victory for freedom.
https://adflegal.org/press-release/vi... Email General

Forcing faculty to use "preferred pronouns" is illegal compelled speech. Big victory for freedom.
adflegal.org/press-release/v… Email General

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Published on April 19, 2022 13:35

"She is understandably derisive about neo-imperialist polemicists...with their forlorn attempts to burnish the luster of empire." Forlorn? Ordinary British remain proud of the empire. It is attempts to tarnish the luster of empire that are forlorn.

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"She is understandably derisive about neo-imperialist polemicists...with their forlorn attempts to burnish the luster of empire." Forlorn? Ordinary British remain proud of the empire. It is attempts to tarnish the luster of empire that are forlorn.

nytimes.com/2022/03/29/books…

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Published on April 19, 2022 08:58

April 18, 2022

Pay equity is a joke concept at many levels. It also steers women into safe pay equity jobs which means they are less likely to be risk takers. @MilkeMark sheds some light here.
https://westernstandardonline.com/202...-

Pay equity is a joke concept at many levels. It also steers women into safe pay equity jobs which means they are less likely to be risk takers. @MilkeMark sheds some light here.
westernstandardonline.com/20…

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Published on April 18, 2022 18:02

April 16, 2022

The global minimum tax will fail because countries have "different objectives that push in different directions, toward differences in tax rates, tax bases, and minimum taxes."
https://www.nber.org/13th-annual-mart...

The global minimum tax will fail because countries have "different objectives that push in different directions, toward differences in tax rates, tax bases, and minimum taxes."
nber.org/13th-annual-martin-…

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Published on April 16, 2022 09:44

April 15, 2022

The reliably anti-Western and frankly racist Pankaj Mishra (who prefers living in the West and dating white women) blames Bill Clinton for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n...

The reliably anti-Western and frankly racist Pankaj Mishra (who prefers living in the West and dating white women) blames Bill Clinton for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Published on April 15, 2022 09:06

Recommendation from Swedish researchers: everyone should participate in a 90km cross-country ski race on a regular basis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Recommendation from Swedish researchers: everyone should participate in a 90km cross-country ski race on a regular basis.

sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Published on April 15, 2022 08:43

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