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  • COVID Travel Restrictions Deny Life-Saving Surgery, Killing Four Newborn Babies

    COVID Travel Restrictions Deny Life-Saving Surgery, Killing Four Newborn Babies0

    Four babies died in Adelaide, Australia over the last four weeks after being denied transport to Melbourne because of government COVID-19 restrictions, health officials say. Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, doesn’t offer paediatric cardiac surgery. According to local news reports, this means about 100 babies are sent interstate for treatment

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  • Biden: How Do You Lie Like That?

    Biden: How Do You Lie Like That?0

    Lying politicians with morphing political positions are nothing new. Yet usually there is an art to political lying; when done properly it leaves most Americans irritated, but not insulted and outraged. Unfortunately for former Vice President Joe Biden, the lie witnessed at the second and final presidential debate was not that kind. Late in the

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  • Trump, 60 Minutes, and the Media Gatekeepers

    Trump, 60 Minutes, and the Media Gatekeepers0

    The Trump campaign made another enemy the other day when it released its unedited version of the president’s interview with Lesley Stahl for “60 Minutes.” The famous television show vowed to release the interview despite having lost their scoop. Even before the advance release, however, the interview did not go well. As can be seen

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  • The Electoral College Didn’t Protect Slavery

    The Electoral College Didn’t Protect Slavery0

    The presidential election in 2016 reminded Americans of the role played by the Electoral College in electing our president. Proponents of abolishing or nullifying the Electoral College and replacing it with a direct-election scheme are trying to delegitimize the traditional process by claiming it is a remnant of America’s racist past, created as part of

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  • Suicides Nearly Double Among Young People in Wisconsin’s Second Largest County

    Suicides Nearly Double Among Young People in Wisconsin’s Second Largest County0

    This summer, a relative reached out to me regarding the sad story of Kodie Dutcher, a 10-year-old from Baraboo, Wisconsin who was reported missing in July. Law enforcement officials put out an Amber Alert, and a volunteer search party was organized. Kodie’s body was found the following morning – July 7, a Tuesday – near

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  • Closed Schools Ignore Low COVID-19 Rates, Needs of Families

    Closed Schools Ignore Low COVID-19 Rates, Needs of Families0

    At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in a classroom. Many haven’t done so since March. Evidence continues to mount that COVID-19 affects children the least, and ad hoc school district e-learning platforms, hastily assembled in the spring,

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