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Cuomo Invites MLB to NY Citing the State’s Low Infection Rates0
- Culture
- July 29, 2020
With Major League Baseball’s return during the COVID-19 pandemic being unstable at best – especially given the Toronto Blue Jays’ expulsion from Canada – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extended an interesting invite to teams across the country. “New York state could host any Major League Baseball game that any teams want to play and they could
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America’s Other Deadly Virus0
- Culture
- July 29, 2020
For the last several months we have waged our coronavirus war. In some states we wear the mandated facemasks to enter grocery stores or even to walk through public parks, we maintain safe distances, and we squirt sanitizer on our hands from time to time. Some of our governors kept most businesses running while others
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Will COVID Disappear If Biden Becomes President?0
- Politics
- July 28, 2020
Watching the way COVID-19 has become a political football, especially for the Democratic Party, one must wonder about its possible value under a Joe Biden presidency. Raising this question is by no means an endorsement of Donald Trump for president, particularly as I have expressed critical views about the president’s “loose tongue” and “incoherent, insulting tweets” more
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The Bloodless Political Class and Its Lack of Empathy0
- Culture
- July 28, 2020
Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by intimidation and compulsion. They posture in this silly way as
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Martyrs, Meaningless Deaths, and the Monologue on Race0
- Culture
- July 28, 2020
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has convulsed the entire country. His story has become an allegory for a malevolent criminal justice system indifferent to the lives of black men. Not only did his death elevate the motto, “Black Lives Matter,” it ushered in a summer of protests and unrest. The Dead as Martyrs
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How Ayn Rand’s Dystopian Novella Anticipated Cancel Culture0
- Culture
- July 28, 2020
Recent legislators, activists, and education reformers have promised to lead us into a new world of equity. No longer will some groups have a different lifestyle from others. No longer will some groups have a different education from others. There will be reform or else, Hawk Newsome warns, “we will burn down this system and
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Abolishing the Police Will End Our Society0
- Culture
- July 28, 2020
Recent weeks have been filled with clashes between police and protesters, raging rioters and fleeing law enforcement. Since a policeman’s role in the George Floyd incident lit the match of chaos, the cry of “defund the police” has been an easy one for protesters to latch onto. I have to wonder about the psychological impact
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Why Black Lives Matter Seeks to Dismantle the Family0
- Family
- July 27, 2020
One of the most oft-cited and criticized goals of the Black Lives Matter organization is its stated desire to abolish the family as we know it. Specifically, BLM’s official website states: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially
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Prince Harry and Meghan Learn the Grass Is Always Greener0
- Culture
- July 27, 2020
What did they expect? In January, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, announced they would “step back” from their work as senior members of the royal family. They cited tabloid intrusion as one of the major factors driving their decision. They seemed to be desperate for privacy. Prince Harry gave a speech in
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