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  • 2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died

    2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died0

    If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. Two thousand twenty will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong.           It’s not just that their judgment

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  • Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater

    Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater0

    My mom loved listening to Broadway musicals and particularly favored South Pacific. By the time I left for college, she had played that record so often I had memorized most of the songs and can still belt them out. I also saw the movie with her—I’m generally not a fan of musicals on film, and this

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  • A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy

    A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy1

    At the beginning of the year, a couple of my coworkers challenged me to join the yearly book challenge on Goodreads. While I am still wrapping up a few of my selections, I’m on track to finish my goal, and it’s rewarding to see the finish line in sight. Having done this challenge, I took

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  • 2020: America’s Wake-Up Call

    2020: America’s Wake-Up Call0

    Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at

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  • Russian Bishop Calls Biden’s Transgender Statement Blasphemous

    Russian Bishop Calls Biden’s Transgender Statement Blasphemous0

    Propagating gender reassignment among children should be a criminal offence, Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, the chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, recently declared on “Russia 24” TV network. His comment was made in response to Joe Biden’s recent statement of support for the supposed right of children to choose their gender. “The

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  • Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness

    Charlton Heston’s Prophetic Words on Political Correctness0

    Combine Moses and a Harvard discourse on cancel culture and one encounters a perfect storm for prophetic words. That’s exactly what happened on Feb. 16, 1999, when Charlton Heston, movie star and president of the National Rifle Association, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Harvard Law School. The film actor who played Moses and Ben Hur

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