To the Barricades! NY Times’s David Brooks Calls for a “Civic Uprising” Against the Trump Administration

 David Brooks recently published an op-ed essay in the New York Times calling for a “civic uprising” against the Trump administration. ...
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An Excellent Hospital Breakfast for a Cardiac Patient (A Day Without Grits Is Like a Day Without Sunshine)

I underwent a catheterization procedure at a Baton Rouge hospital this morning. By the time the procedure was over, I ...
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Colleges peddling expensive liberal arts degrees are engaging in fraud

My professors defined sociology as the painful elaboration of the obvious and psychology [as] the painstaking study of human behavior ...
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Screenshot Your IDR Progress Today

In January, we shared that the Department of Education had added important new information to studentaid.gov showing borrowers their progress ...
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The Dems Refuse To Be Realistic About the Ukraine War

 President Trump is trying to end the Ukraine War. Earlier this week, Vice President J.D. Vance proposed that the fighting ...
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Collection of Defaulted Student Loans to Begin Soon: What Borrowers Need to Know Now

This week, the Department of Education announced that it plans to begin forced collection on federal student loans that are ...
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Zelensky must agree to abandon claims to Crimea, or the Ukraine war will end badly

 As reported in the New York Times, Vice President J.D. Vance proposed an end to the Ukraine war on these ...
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“The Last Stop in Yuma County” is a Cautionary Tale for Handgun Owners

 The Last Stop in Yuma County is a sleeper. The film was made on a pauper’s budget of only $1 million, ...
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My Top Ten List of Songs about Texas

 Texas Monthly recently did a tremendous public service when it published a list of 71 songs titled “Texas, ” ranking them ...
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Three Canaries in the Coal Mine of the American Economy. That’s Two Canaries Too Many

 One day after the Easter holiday, the stock market is swooning. Is this the big sell-off–the start of a long ...
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