What’s Wrong With Hailing Mary Magdalene as a Biblical #MeToo Poster Child

In a story distributed for Good Friday, the Associated Press claims Mary Magdalene was a biblical “Me Too” figure who was “long maligned” by the West. The story, filed from Israel with the headline “Long-maligned Mary Magdalene now seen as stalwart disciple,” asserts that Magdalene was not a reformed prostitute but rather a “strong, independent […]

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3 Steps Congress Can Take to Ensure Better Disaster Preparedness

Every four years, FEMA produces an updated Strategic Plan. Last week, the agency released its plan for 2018-2022. Taking lessons learned from hurricane-heavy 2017, the plan laid out FEMA’s three main goals for the future: building a culture of preparedness, readying the nation for catastrophic disasters, and reducing the complexity of FEMA. For far too […]

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5 Things to Know About the Prosecutor Probing FBI, Justice Department Actions

While Attorney General Jeff Sessions held off on naming a second special counsel, he reached well outside Washington for a federal prosecutor to investigate possible wrongdoing by the FBI and Justice Department. ”The [Justice] Department is not above criticism and it can never be that the department conceals errors when they occur,” AG Jeff Sessions […]

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Gun Rights Actually Are a Civil Rights Issue

It is becoming increasingly fashionable for those who support gun control to compare the post-Parkland, student-driven movement to the civil rights movements of earlier generations. “Young people said, ‘We will not tolerate what our ancestors have tolerated. We’ve had enough and we’re willing to fight for it and we’re willing to march in the streets […]

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Human Ignorance and Market Genius

Here’s a question for you: In 1950, would it have been possible for anyone to know all of the goods and services that we would have at our disposal 50 years later? For example, who would have thought that we’d have cellphones, Bluetooth technology, small powerful computers, LASIK, and airplanes with 525-passenger seating capacity? This […]

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