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Expressing a view on a political or social issue can be harmful to your career, if it isn’t of the progressive-approved variety: The CEO of an American video game developer stepped down after he issued a statement supportive of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a law in Texas that bans abortions after…
While he goes a bit far in framing ’80s dance parties as a path to God, Mark Judge makes a great point, here: Going out was a long ride uninterrupted by texts, which didn’t exist, or phone calls, because phone booths were hard to find. The experience formed a kind of meditation. The professional world…
The title of this Barbara Morse piece on WJAR carries an important point of political philosophy: Health leaders say Rhode Island health care COVID-19 vaccine mandate is working By “working,” they mean that the percentage of healthcare workers who have been vaccinated has gone up to 95%, which is probably an increase of around 10…
The most infamous and egregious case, of course, is the reported rape by a boy in a skirt of a 15-year-old girl in the girls’ bathroom in a Loudon County, Virginia, school. The school department lied about the case and tried to bury it, and the case wouldn’t be nearly as infamous if the news…
Here’s a headline on a Steve Matregrano article for WPRI that might very well make you say, “Oh, come on”: ‘Earthshine’ levels indicate the planet is dimming due to climate change, researchers say The key question the headline skips over is: dimming from the perspective of whom? No, the Earth isn’t getting darker. It’s just…
Why not both? I’m not sure Stephen Green has it quite right when he casts his chips with the “power” side. After all, many provisions in the plan go directly to maintaining Democrat power, like this one: Illegal aliens will be having a field day. Not only will they continue to be allowed to flood…
This article from Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long would be a great study in propaganda and how the news media constructs a narrative that’s true-ish for political ends. It wraps facts in the perspective of the writers. A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped…
Such stories as this one are among the first things to come to mind every time our political system lurches left: Over a decade ago, UCLA physician-scientists began using a pioneering gene therapy they developed to treat children born with a rare and deadly immune system disorder. They now report that the effects of the…
In New York City, a judge has suspended a father’s visitation rights to his daughter “unless he submits COVID-19 tests on a weekly basis or gets vaccinated.” He’s had the virus before, as well. The key, though, is the judge’s reasoning, which is (let’s say) pretty far from the actual science: “Here, in-person parental access…
The Democrat candidate for Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe, agrees with Democrats in Rhode Island that schools should engage in a conspiracy to lie to parents whose children may be exploring a change of their gender. I’ve long wondered what the mechanics of this deep deception would look like, and it’s frightening to know it’s a…