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Day: August 26, 2019

Maybe Forgiveness After All loans

Maybe Forgiveness After All

Hei Lun Chan August 26, 2019
How much debt should you legally be able to take on before you can legally drink alcohol?
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Taking The Joy Out Of a New Hat

Clare Briggs August 26, 2019
Unimpressed.
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The Perspective of Luck, or Lack Thereof Andrew Luck

The Perspective of Luck, or Lack Thereof

Andrew Donaldson August 26, 2019
Sports and politics have that in common. People absolutely lose their minds over it, and their basic...
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  • David TC in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThis is something I’d say to defend the article. Yes, Jaybird, me repeating part of the article that…
  • David TC in reply to Dark Matter on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreBlue has narratives which are undermined by Red being successful here. Red is supposed to be super r…
  • LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25In today's "merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic", two young Jewish men beat up in San Francisco by…
  • Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and Iranit’s likely the Clerical Regime is what is _stopping_ the development of nuclear weapons. The curren…
  • Dark Matter in reply to David TC on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreIt’s just actual evidence-based education. It’s developing, using experts, a good curriculum, and th…
  • Dark Matter in reply to Brent F on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and Iranpretty good argument against Iranian “substantial involvement” as they clearly didn’t control Hamas…
  • Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25Nate Silver opens a proverbial can of proverbial worms by digging into the "so-called" Happiness Gap…
  • Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/16/25He's back. I would wonder at the thought processes behind banning him. Or emotive processes, I guess…
  • Brent F in reply to Dark Matter on Fourth Day of Heavy Exchanges Between Israel and IranControl and direction is an important element of the "substantial involvement" threshold of determin…
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