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  • Michael Moore Knocks the Halo Off the Environmental Movement

    Michael Moore Knocks the Halo Off the Environmental Movement0

    Right from the get-go, I have to admit that Planet of the Humans, a documentary about the environmental movement produced by Michael Moore, is unfair, very unfair. And unkind, too, very unkind, to Al Gore. Alas. But as the Sierra Club might have said, you can’t produce clean, green biomass energy without levelling forests. Planet of

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  • Gavin Newsom and the Limits of Science

    Gavin Newsom and the Limits of Science0

    There have been many responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in all spheres of life from businesses, educational institutions, churches, and within close intimate human relationships. Most of these responses have arisen spontaneously as people’s duties to protect themselves and others, both individuals and communities, have become plain to them. Government at all levels has also acted, imposing a series of sometimes

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  • Equality Prepared Us for Coronavirus Restrictions

    Equality Prepared Us for Coronavirus Restrictions0

    I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week. 

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  • Coronavirus Has Liberated Students From College Shackles

    Coronavirus Has Liberated Students From College Shackles0

    Each year, nearly three million high school seniors graduate and then go straight on to college. I suspect many of them are just as clueless as I was when I graduated high school. Most just go to college because that is what they have been told to do.  This coronavirus has turned all that on

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  • The Strange Case of the Male Mother

    The Strange Case of the Male Mother0

    Freddy McConnell, a “trans man” who became pregnant and gave birth, but legally became a man when the child was born, has been pursuing a legal challenge against the General Register Office as the administrator of the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales. This week he lost at the Court of Appeal

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  • Let’s Go Backwards in Education

    Let’s Go Backwards in Education0

    Maybe part of the “New Normal” should be the “Old Normal.” In the last two weeks, lost among the coronavirus ruckus, some organizations have issued reports revealing the poor scores of our elementary and middle school students on standardized tests. From the Pioneer Institute comes a study showing the failures of Common Core in basic subjects like

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