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  • The Common Sense Alternative to Fauciism

    The Common Sense Alternative to Fauciism0

    I have recently sought treatment recommendations from three different dentists for a problem I’m having. Two dentists, both well-known and respected by me, gave me diametrically opposed recommendations. My wife urged me to see the dentist who had helped her with a tricky problem for a third opinion. The third opinion contradicted the other two.

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  • The Battle Over Homeschooling Is All About Power

    The Battle Over Homeschooling Is All About Power0

    I was one of those “weird” homeschool kids. At least, “weird” seems to be what the all those cookie-cutter questions I received between kindergarten and 12th grade inferred. “Aren’t you afraid that you won’t be able to socialize with your peers?” or “Is it possible you are missing out on a ‘normal’ childhood?” were ones I

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  • Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of the Great Depression

    Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of the Great Depression0

    During the Great Recession, President Obama’s chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel infamously advised, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And, sure enough, the COVID-19 threat has given politicians another crisis to promote long-sought policy goals. Some are calling for a modern version of the New Deal, but is this a good idea? Setting

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  • ‘Guilt by Accusation’: Torment With No Exit

    ‘Guilt by Accusation’: Torment With No Exit0

    Even hardened veterans of media brawls can stumble. Take Alan Dershowitz’s appearance on “Tooning Out the News,” a new CBS show which features fictional animated news anchors interviewing real personalities. It’s vulgar, insulting and surreal. And there is only one way out – through the dog house. But, somehow, for some inexplicable reason, Dershowitz accepted

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  • Why COVID-19 Models Aren’t Real Science

    Why COVID-19 Models Aren’t Real Science0

    Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have been told countless times that public policy was based on Science (with a capital S) and that the public should just obey the scientists. But the accuracy of their predictions and the consequent appropriateness of policies seems to have been little better than Ask Dr. Science

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  • Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To

    Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To0

    Severe shortages of critical medical supplies have prompted governments to compel private companies to fill the gap. In the U.S., President Donald Trump invoked rarely used powers to force General Motors to make ventilators, while the leaders of France, the U.K. and Japan have put pressure on companies to make more medical supplies. But, judging

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  • Fighting Back in Our Age of Deceit

    Fighting Back in Our Age of Deceit0

    Let’s face it – no one likes being caught in a lie. The husband who says he has to work late, is entangled with his secretary, and gets caught; the kid who tells his parents he’s going to study with a friend and winds up drunk and arrested: getting snared in a fabrication is never

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  • CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing

    CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing0

    When schools reopen in the U.S. amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they will be even more restrictive than they already were. Schools have long controlled students’ movements and imposed constraints on where they can go, when, and with whom. With virus concerns, those controls will increase in quantity and intensity. NPR recently proclaimed that “disruption

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  • A Robot Parent Can Now Raise Your Kids

    A Robot Parent Can Now Raise Your Kids0

    Parents overwhelmed with caring for their children as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cancel school and all of their children’s other activities can take heart. A new robot arriving this fall will handle your parenting duties. Meet Moxie, the new dystopian product from Embodied, Inc. The sound you hear when this robot boots up in Embodied, Inc.’s advertisement

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