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  • Climate Change: The Next Power Grab

    Climate Change: The Next Power Grab0

    Certain politicians and special interest groups have brought out the pipes and drums to renew the Green New Deal. I recently heard our president on the radio shouting—and he was really shouting—about the perils we face if we don’t spend trillions of dollars fighting climate change. He told his audience that the scientists and our

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  • Americans Souring on Biden—and Washington

    Americans Souring on Biden—and Washington0

    The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer polls, the party had been staring starkly at the prospect of losing the nation’s largest state and seeing its governor replaced by talk-show host Larry Elder, who had vaulted into the lead among the 46 candidates seeking

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  • Therapy for Our Current Madness

    Therapy for Our Current Madness1

    It’s no secret that we live in crazy times. Yet more is involved than just a bunch of crazy people running wild. If this was just individual mental illness, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) would help. Unfortunately, however, the DSM fails to address today’s political madness. With that deficiency in mind,

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  • Politics Are Killing Medicine

    Politics Are Killing Medicine13

    Recently I needed to visit the Urgent Care Center here in Front Royal, Virginia. I have gone there two or three times over the past four years, usually waiting around 15 minutes to see a doctor or a nurse. This time the woman at the front desk told me my wait would be between three

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  • Who and What Is Tearing the U.S. Apart?

    Who and What Is Tearing the U.S. Apart?0

    In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President George W. Bush’s theme was national unity—and how it has been lost over these past 20 years. “In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks,” said Bush, “I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the unity of America, those days

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  • The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order

    The Four Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order0

    Back in December of 2020, then President-elect Biden said that he would not make vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory, nor did he think they should be mandatory. Given the new vaccine mandate by the White House, set to affect nearly 100 million Americans by some estimates, one reasonably conclude that Biden misled the people. However, Biden’s

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  • Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth

    Diversity Fiction Meets Culture-Clashing Truth0

    Homeland Elegies: A Novel, by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown & Co.; 368 pp., $28.00). Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 travel book, Following the Equator: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” That saying came in handy as I read this book, described on its jacket as

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  • Throwing Victimhood in the Trash

    Throwing Victimhood in the Trash0

    We can trace our American penchant for victimhood back decades. Consider the 1957 musical “West Side Story,” which features two New York City gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, warring with each other. At one point, some of the Jets sing “Gee, Officer Krupke,” in which they mock the reasons given by the courts, psychologists,

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  • New Study Finds Mask Mandate Failed to Reduce COVID Effects

    New Study Finds Mask Mandate Failed to Reduce COVID Effects0

    A new study published in the The Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) found that a county-wide mask order in Bexar County, Texas, did not lead to a reduction in COVID-19 hospitalization rates or deaths. The study, which was peer reviewed, analyzed data before and after mandates were imposed at both the state level (July 3, 2020)

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