A French correspondent, fluent in English and a brave anti-vaxxer, recently wrote to me, “So it’s 2022. Some are saying it will be 20-20-Too.” Heaven forbid that is the case. As we all know, the last two years have brought many trials and challenges. Americans
READ MOREIf you’re white and middle class, the push for health care “equity” could kill you. Prominent medical organizations and the Biden administration are pushing for rules that will move “disadvantaged” populations to the front of the line for scarce medical resources—think vaccines, ventilators, monoclonal antibody treatments. That means everyone else waits longer, in some cases
READ MOREIf nothing else, the past two years have demonstrated with blazing clarity how the ruling elites live by one set of rules and impose an entirely separate set of rules on the unfavored, ostracized, dispossessed and deplatformed. As a member of the print, broadcast and internet media for the past 30 years, I cannot emphasize
READ MOREIt’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. Fear of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus is leading school officials across
READ MOREIn a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, scolds—and everything besides COVID-19, which we give a blessed rest in this list! No. 1: WHY CAN’T YOU BE GOOD LIKE ME? A Beaverton, Oregon, man screamed at a lady for leaving her kid in the car while
READ MOREAmerican journalist H. L. Mencken once said, “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, raise the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” Dec. 30 was a day I wanted to spit on my hands. That was the day I read the introduction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real
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