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  • More Than a Slab of Meat: The Worth of the Soul

    More Than a Slab of Meat: The Worth of the Soul1

    More and more it seems that our government and our culture regard the human being as a slab of meat rather than as a creature with a body, mind, and soul. The coronavirus pandemic perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. Using propaganda and fear as their weapons, our government—with the help of the mainstream media—ordered lockdowns, masks,

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  • A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming

    A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming0

    Recently, Joseph Cotto and I discussed on our regular podcast the fate of the Hallmark Channel, which I have viewed periodically while moving with my remote button toward Turner Classic Movies. (On Turner I find old movies, popular during my youth, that have not yet been canceled.) What drew me, however briefly, to the Hallmark

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  • ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time

    ‘Red Dawn’: A Movie for Our Time0

    The other day I was revisiting the 1984 flick Red Dawn when I had one of those revelations that leave me feeling a bit stupid and more than a bit stunned.            The film’s storyline is pretty simple: It’s the Cold War, and Russia, Cuba, and Nicaragua launch an attack on

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  • Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan. 6

    Why the Left Cannot Let Go of Jan. 60

    “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.” That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last. On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of

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  • How to Change the Minds of Those You Disagree With

    How to Change the Minds of Those You Disagree With1

    If your mission is only to prove your own self-importance and knowledge, then go ahead and argue. But if your mission is to persuade and present the truth, then Ben Franklin’s suggestions may just change your world.

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  • ‘Authoritarianism’ May Be Necessary to Fight Climate Change, Cambridge Study Argues

    ‘Authoritarianism’ May Be Necessary to Fight Climate Change, Cambridge Study Argues0

    A recent study published in American Political Science Review, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University, begins with a teasing question: “Is authoritarian power ever legitimate?” For many, the answer is clearly no, concedes the study’s author—Ross Mittiga, an assistant professor of political theory at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. But Mittiga,

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  • Saddling Up and Riding with Justice and Truth

    Saddling Up and Riding with Justice and Truth0

    A French correspondent, fluent in English and a brave anti-vaxxer, recently wrote to me, “So it’s 2022. Some are saying it will be 20-20-Too.”            Heaven forbid that is the case.            As we all know, the last two years have brought many trials and challenges. Americans

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  • Patients Threatened by Reparations Medicine

    Patients Threatened by Reparations Medicine0

    If you’re white and middle class, the push for health care “equity” could kill you. Prominent medical organizations and the Biden administration are pushing for rules that will move “disadvantaged” populations to the front of the line for scarce medical resources—think vaccines, ventilators, monoclonal antibody treatments. That means everyone else waits longer, in some cases

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  • Associated Press = Associated Propaganda

    Associated Press = Associated Propaganda0

    If nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed. As a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, I cannot emphasize

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