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Taking the Jerry Maguire Route

Taking the Jerry Maguire Route

If you haven’t seen, weren’t born yet, or don’t remember the very popular 1996 movie Jerry Maguire, starring Tom Cruise, then put it on your list. In the movie, Tom Cruise’s character (Jerry Maguire) has an epiphany one night that the best way to achieve happiness and fulfillment is to shift his focus away from more money and fame to less clients, more personal attention.

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Trans Juggernaut Hits a Speedbump: Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses, Instead

Fresh off the heels of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announcing that it would not allow transgender-identified men to compete in women’s athletic events in any of its association’s 239 small private schools, a landmark study was released on Wednesday that defies the hysterical warning that if gender dysphoric adolescents don’t receive “gender-affirming care,” they will kill themselves.

Generation Liberty Fellowship

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D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.

The Washington Post

At iconic Sedgwick Gardens, an experiment in “housing first” policy has seen mixed results.

Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shifts Singles’ Attitudes Toward Sex, Dating

An unintended but interesting consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade has been a significant decrease in America’s “hookup” culture.

Migrants’ Monthly Payment in NYC Is Higher Than Veterans Compensation

Newsweek

A family of four migrants in New York City receives more monthly funding than a family of four that includes a military veteran who receives disability compensation.

Biden Administration Announces Plan to Shift Another $7.4 Billion in Student Debt to Taxpayers

The Biden administration on Friday announced yet another student-loan debt giveaway, this time passing $7.4 billion in debt accumulated by an estimated 277,000 Americans to taxpayers through the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) income-repayment plan and other similar repayment options.

NAIA, small colleges association, bans transgender athletes from women’s sports competitions

CBS Sports

NAIA believed to be first national college governing body to mandate athletes compete according to assigned sex at birth

Only Two States in America Have a Majority of Households That Consist of Traditional Families

Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more.

Examining the latest movements in state economic growth and competition

Dive into our comprehensive report that ranks the economic competitiveness of states using 15 equally weighted policy variables.

The (Federal) Benefits of Marriage

Reviewing Tim Carney’s new book Family Unfriendly, Robert VerBruggen cautions against going too far with aid to stay-at-home parents: “U.S. tax and entitlement policy is already quite favorable to breadwinner households — who generally receive a “marriage bonus” from the income-tax system and extra Social Security benefits to support the non-working spouse — and further reforms should bear these existing features in mind.”

CA’s Architect of “Equity-Based Algebra” Accused of Academic Fraud

Pirate Wires

The state’s math framework is strongly influenced by the academic work of Jo Boaler, now accused of significantly distorting citations in research underpinning the framework

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