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Who’s Rating the ‘News Raters’?0
- Politics, Featured
- July 3, 2024
NewsGuard is a widely recognized media watchdog that rates news agencies on their reliability, transparency, and financial conflicts of interest. Via a web extension, the organization’s team of “expert journalists” provides outlets with “nutrition label” reports that rate outlets on a scale of 0–100 based on “a set of apolitical criteria of journalistic practice,” according
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Why Emotions Are Necessary in Education (So Is Logic)2
- Education, Featured
- July 2, 2024
In education, there is a tradition of separating reason from emotions. We learn best, the conventional wisdom goes, when able to rationally consider information in a dispassionate manner. Emotions cause us to become impulsive and make rash judgments. When we try to acquire knowledge while in an emotional state, we allow biases to infect our
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An Economy That Only Works for the Rich and Powerful Is Not a Capitalist Economy 0
- Featured, Culture, Economics
- July 1, 2024
Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. George Orwell wrote those words nearly 80 years ago. Today, Americans are witnessing exactly what Orwell described. Many have the
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My Favorite Patriotic Recipes for Independence Day 4
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- June 28, 2024
Independence Day is just around the corner! I’m planning to celebrate with a feast. What better things to cook than classic American recipes? Much of what we think of as “American food” actually comes from Western Europe where the majority of immigration to our country originated. Most of the immigrants were poor, simple, and hardy,
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Cautionary Tales Abound as Kansas Sues Pfizer Over COVID-19 Vaccine 3
- Politics, Featured, Health, Science
- June 27, 2024
Pfizer ignored the harms its COVID-19 vaccine posed to pregnant women, lied about the safety and efficacy of its product, and colluded with Big Tech to censor its critics, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed this week by the attorney general of Kansas. “Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was safe even though it knew its
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‘Like the Tin Man’: National Guardsman Paralyzed by COVID Vaccine 6
- Featured, Health, Science
- June 26, 2024
For many of us, whole-body paralysis is a worst nightmare scenario. For a Minnesota National Guardsman, who goes by Drew Outstanding on X, that nightmare became a reality in April 2021. In the space of two weeks, Drew went from a normal, active lifestyle to waking up unable to move and then entering a medically-induced
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