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Haircuts and Hosiery: Do Your Bit to Fight the Delta Variant 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2021
(Note that what follows is entirely satire, including the quotes from a CDC spokesman, which are invented.) Unnoticed by some in the present upheavals caused by the delta variant of COVID-19 was a quiet announcement from the Center for Disease Control linking the virus and human hair. “Numerous tests have
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Raising Children to Be More Than Peppa Parrots 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2021
Peppa Pig, a British children’s cartoon, has taken America by storm, so much so that children are absorbing the British accent its characters feature, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal explains. Parents are reporting that they’ve become “Mummy,” Santa has morphed into “Father Christmas” for whom children must make mince pies, and mature
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Islam and Its White Slaves 0
- History
- September 2, 2021
The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam, by Simon Webb (Pen and Sword History; 208 pp., $39.95). In America, public discussion about slavery—when it doesn’t devolve into BLM activists burning cities or congressmen bending the knee—is premised on important but erroneous assumptions: only blacks have been enslaved; black slavery was racially motivated; discussion
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Ivermectin: Horse Hockey Versus Truth 0
- Politics
- September 1, 2021
Shhhhh. The information I’m about to share with you is dangerous and subversive. You cannot publish it on social media platforms without risking scary labels and permanent suspensions. You and anyone you discuss this topic with will be called anti-science “kooks,” “conspiracy theorists” or “quacks.” So be it. I’ve been called every pejorative name in
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A Nurse Shares Six Reasons for Health Care Decline 0
- Politics
- September 1, 2021
Sally* has worked as a nurse in an operating room for more than 30 years. She’s seen horrors most of us can only imagine, gunshot victims, patients maimed beyond belief, the dead from failed surgeries carted off to the morgue. Right now, she’s witnessing the decline of American health care. That decline is taking place
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Bad Moon Rising for Biden—and Us 0
- Politics
- August 31, 2021
“April is the cruelest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, “The Waste Land.” For President Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which is now mercifully ending. When has a president had a worse month? On the last Sunday in August,
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