No shots, thanks, we’re Americans
“I would advise you not to take the Russian or the Chinese vaccines,” my GP told me the other day, “I suspect there might have been some shortcuts taken in both …
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Unholy wood: how to deal with catastrophic wildfires
First Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
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Killing them not so softly
The left eventually poisons everything it touches. It might take a while until their presence in a particular field reaches the critical mass sufficient to affect the trajectory but they will …
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The Mystery of African COVID
“New York Post” sets up the mystery: The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are America, Brazil, …
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Celebrity strikes? Yes please!
Twenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
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Not Killing And Getting Killed For Dummies
I’m not an expert, but this seems commonsense to me in these increasingly fraught times: 1. If you own a firearm, be a responsible gun owner; learn how to handle …
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160 years on, Democrats still think they own blacks
Cheap shot? Sorry, I usually prefer expensive ones too, but that’s all I have tonight with #UncleToms trending on Twitter and Jake Tapper complaining on CNN that the first night …
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Trump’s agenda – a little bit nationalistic, a little bit fantastic
Donald Trump has released the agenda for his second term: A few random thoughts in response: 1) The biggest missing piece – as it has been from Trump’s agenda over …
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The most important thing you will read this year
As somebody who has experienced “not the real socialism”(TM) for the first fifteen years of my life, I seriously never expected that a few decades on I would have to …
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Wired left, right and centre
An interesting neurological study indicates that partisans and non-partisans – or perhaps the ideological and non-ideological folk – are two different species. OK, not quite, but they do think differently: …
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A Streetcar Named Freedom
It’s always fun watching some red on red violence (no metaphor here – as we have now been repeatedly told, words are violence too), and the latest outbreak is particularly …
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be oppressed in this racist hell
As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing world continue to migrate to Western countries, which we are …
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Cancelling your whole history
The hope that statue-destroyers would restrict themselves to just slave traders was misplaced. It was as naive as asking the question “who will they pull down next?” The answer is: …
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A Pessimist Case for November
Twenty-twenty was going to be a great year. I think it was the cool number. Much cooler than 1919 or 1818. Ten-ten was just as good a number, but from …
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Teaching young to hate their own
There is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
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America is bad for democracy, say allies
Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study of its kind, based on interviews with 124,000 people in …
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We shall fight in the streets
Make no mistake: the attacks, both physical and rhetorical, against the memory of Winston Churchill show that the mask of the agitators in the streets and across the social media …
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Why I Am a Racist*
* and so, most likely, are you** ** according to the new nomenclature I was born in another time and another place. It was a different world – the past …
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When Only Some #BlackLivesMatter
Black Lives Matter. To me certainly, a black life matters as much as my white life. However to say something like that, or that “All Lives Matter”, is now considered …
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