Opinion

Et Tu, Big Bird?

They are coming for the 5-to-11-year-olds. That should be the realization of any critical thinker—with the FDA expanding its Emergency Use Authorization approval of the Pfizer “BioNTech” vaccine for children ages 5-to-11 and the launch of a propaganda campaign clearly aimed at those children—as well as the parents of that…
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Vaccine Mandates and the Decline of Self-Government

In all of the controversy over the Biden Administration’s regulatory vaccine mandates, the country has almost entirely overlooked a rather obvious alternative: legislation. This oversight is strange in a democracy such as ours. Reflecting on this oversight can teach us something about the health of that democracy.  Thus far, the…
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Dr. Fauci Warned About Coronaviruses in 2003—But Didn’t Act On It

Few would argue the United States, or any country for that matter, was prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, even though, starting in 2003, the United States devoted $5.6 billion to fund Project Bioshield, running through 2013, and another $2.8 billion of funding through 2018. Project Bioshield was designed to prepare…
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Don’t Cede the Streets to Violent Communists

An annoying number of commentators on the political Right are insisting that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn’t have been out in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin on the night of August 25, 2020.  Take the perennially wrong Quin Hillyer over at the Washington Examiner, for example.  “Rittenhouse is at clear moral fault…
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Build your own laptop screen with recycled parts

Build your own laptop screen with recycled parts

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek…
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The science behind why no two snowflakes are alike

The science behind why no two snowflakes are alike

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek…
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Spend the night at one of these gorgeous church hotels

Spend the night at one of these gorgeous church hotels

With their feet dangling, and amusing themselves–until I stopped them–by throwing stones at the giant mass. After I had spoken to them about it, they began playing at “touch” in and out of the group of bystanders. Among these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing gardener I employed sometimes,…
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