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Is Religious Liberty Essential for America?0
- Culture
- May 18, 2020
Perplexing questions are the name of the game over the past several months. Does social distancing really work? Do masks prevent the spread of the virus? Is it safe to visit elderly relatives? Do we have to worry about spreading the virus while outside? To say that there’s a lot of confusion and concern would
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My Egg Donor Went to Harvard. Did Yours?0
- Culture
- May 18, 2020
A feature in the Harvard Crimson, the university’s undergraduate newspaper, gives a fascinating anecdotal picture of the sperm and egg donation industry on the fringes of Ivy League campuses. Parents who want smart kids. It opens with an interview with a 41-year-old Vancouver woman, Shannon Copeland, who was unable to have a child in her
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Patients Fearing COVID-19 Risk Their Lives By Delaying Medical Care 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
“Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus pandemic spread. We were prepared for a rise in COVID-19 patients, but we didn’t expect the sharp decline we saw in everyday cases. Our emergency department visits fell by half in early April, a time
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Memento Mori: Fear in the Age of Coronavirus 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
Memento mori. That’s Latin in short form for “Remember, you too shall die.” Recently I read Erik Larson’s The Splendid And The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in which he paints in vivid detail the people and the events of that time when Britain stood alone against the might of
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COVID-19 Disrupts Ukraine’s Surrogacy Factories 0
- Culture
- May 15, 2020
Like rivets popping on the hull of the sinking Titanic, the stresses of the pandemic are revealing unexpected weaknesses in our societies. Suddenly we’ve realized that it wasn’t a great idea to source protective masks from China, that warehousing the elderly is dangerous, that we need check-out chicks more than we need managers, and so
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Open Memo to Barack Obama Regarding Michael Flynn 0
- Politics
- May 15, 2020
Editor’s Note: Sidney Powell is a former federal prosecutor who has practiced law, primarily in the Fifth Federal Circuit for decades. She is also the author of License to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. Powell is currently Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyer, after Flynn dismissed the Covington & Burling attorneys who
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