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  • Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading

    Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading0

    In a year where scientists seemed to have gotten everything wrong, a book attempting to explain why is bizarrely relevant. Of course, science was in deep trouble long before the pandemic began and Stuart Ritchie’s excellent Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth had been long in the making.

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  • The Case of the Silent Voter

    The Case of the Silent Voter0

    By now you may have heard of the silent voter. The silent voter is nothing new. The New York Times identified this phenomenon way back in November of 1886, describing it as “the vote which helps make what are called tidal waves in politics.” In more recent years, the silent voter seems to reside in

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  • Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?

    Garden or Graveyard: What Will Be Our Legacy?0

    This morning I came across the following quote by Ray Bradbury while looking for his observation: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Bradbury says: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a

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  • Breonna Taylor Riots and More Irresponsible Rhetoric

    Breonna Taylor Riots and More Irresponsible Rhetoric0

    Two police officers have been shot in Louisville as mobs ransacked local businesses. The mob did not get the murder charge they wanted and now are taking things into their own hands. Unfortunately, even organizations such as the NAACP are continuing to allege that Taylor was murdered by the police. They will not accept a

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  • BLM’s Goal of Disrupting the Nuclear Family Is a Century Old Marxist Goal

    BLM’s Goal of Disrupting the Nuclear Family Is a Century Old Marxist Goal0

    The organization Black Lives Matter has removed from its website a page that included language condemning America’s “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.” The page, titled “What We Believe,” included various public policy positions unrelated to police brutality and police reform. The Washington Examiner discovered on Monday the page had been removed. “Page Not Found. Sorry, but

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  • Women Are Not OK

    Women Are Not OK0

    I try not to watch videos that extremely socially maladjusted people have recorded of themselves crying in their cars. They seem to go viral too often. And too often, the subjects are women: women who earnestly believe that abortion is fundamental to female flourishing. Women whose nature has been thwarted, disassembled, and denied by a

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  • Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout

    Twenty Lessons From 2020’s Fallout0

    This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully capable of doing the unthinkable, and doing so suddenly with no exit plan, little consideration of cost, and a callous disregard for individual rights. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are largely irrelevant when

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  • Taking the First Step to Restore Civility

    Taking the First Step to Restore Civility0

    I learned another life lesson from my friend the UPS man the other day. He stopped by with a couple of packages, and in response to my query informed me that yes, the delivery industry was still in Christmas mode, COVID-19 having turned the year into one long, exhausting holiday season. Given the intense nature

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  • Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car

    Save the Environment: Drive a Gas-Powered Car2

    The Washington Post recently reported that California will cease to allow the sale of gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. This act of government overreach comes not through a legislative act by the state’s elected representatives in the House and Senate, but by decree of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air Resources Board

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