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The harmony between the ATF and the Taliban is discomfiting.

By Justin Katz | August 28, 2021 |

Contrast this news from the American Rifleman: In June, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would make nearly all firearms configured with a pistol stabilizing brace subject to the National Firearms Act, requiring taxation and registration of millions of lawfully acquired firearms. The proposal represents a…

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How can a free country force doctors to perform procedures they find morally wrong?

By Justin Katz | August 28, 2021 |

Matt Hadro reports for the Catholic News Agency: The Catholic Medical Association has joined a lawsuit against a Biden administration rule that it says tramples the conscience rights of doctors opposed to gender-transitioning procedures. In May, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice effectively reinstating the “transgender mandate,” requiring doctors to perform…

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There needs to be a movie about the “Pineapple Express”

By Marc Comtois | August 27, 2021 |

No, not a sequel, but a movie about the inspiring story coming out of Afghanistan about “an all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war launched a final daring mission on Wednesday night dubbed the “Pineapple Express” to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces and their families to safety…”  Hollywood used to be able…

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We need more reminders of each other’s humanity.

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

Michael Morse offers a gentle suggestion to his fellow emergency and healthcare professionals: It doesn’t matter how whoever it is ended up in our care. What matters is that we care for them. Nowhere in any literature pertaining to anybody in the health care hierarchy does judgement get mentioned. Not in EMS manuals, nursing curriculum…

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Do cash-based businesses evade taxes?

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

Most likely, and good for them.  Naturally, RI’s revenue analysis chief, Paul Dion, objects: Confiscatory taxation on productivity will have that effect.  During the government-enforced economic shutdown, we’ve seen how politicians and bureaucrats prefer to operate:  Rather than allow people to figure things out, they’d rather collect taxes and decide how and to whom to…

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The benefits of natural immunity should be a bigger part of the COVID story.

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

A new study (which appears to be out of Israel) confirms that natural immunity to the Delta variant of COVID-19 is even better than vaccine-driven immunity.  Breakthrough infections are 13 times more likely with a vaccine, versus a recent infection.  The number goes down only to 6 times for infections from longer ago. This study…

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Responding to contrasts of treatment of Ashli Babbitt’s killer and cops who’ve killed Black men…

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

… noting that the “country would be on fire” if the skin colors (and ideologies) were reversed, Glenn Reynolds asks, “So why isn’t it?” Well, apart from the fact that conservatives are more law-abiding and not trying to undermine the country, the establishment has displayed the rules since January 6.  Left-wing rioting is just free speech. …

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Highlander’s progress from special needs instruction to promoting critical race theory is instructive.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

That’s the subject of my latest article for Accuracy in Media. The Highlander Institute’s radicalism can be seen in a review of its Twitter stream. For example, the organization provided the only retweet for a tweet by Dinah Becton-Consuegra of the Kapor Center in Oakland, California, which says: “We are a country founded on racist ideas,…

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It’s becoming more and more important to put things in historical context.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

That’s why I love when Marc makes use of his advanced history education.  We wouldn’t be having the social troubles we’re having if we were teaching history like we should.  History has points like this, about how the Pequots attacked and harried the English settlers’ Saybrook Fort: Lessons learned during the siege of Saybrook escalated…

Engraving of the capture of Mistick Fort

If a cow-riding hermit like Rev. Blackstone is akin to Hitler…

By Marc Comtois | August 26, 2021 |

…then what do you call, for instance, the 200 or so Narragansett’s who helped wipe-out the Pequots at Mistick Fort? On May 23, a force of approximately 80 English (10 remained with the ships), 60 Mohegan and River Indians under Uncas, and 200 Narragansett marched 30 miles to present-day Mystic, Connecticut….Mistick Fort was engulfed in…