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Nathan Law, the Hong Kong pro-democracy politician in exile, at a rally in Berlin during a visit by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, September 1, 2020 (Michele Tantussi / Reuters) Let me offer a couple of links, to two podcasts: to Q&A, with Nathan Law; and to Music for a While, my latest episode. The
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Here’s a “coming out story” the media won’t be hyping for Pride month. Scott Cawthon, creator of the popular video game franchise “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” (FNAF) has just come out as a Christian conservative after the left-wing cancel mob decided to look up his name on opensecrets.org. The famous video game designer has donated to
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Anyone wandering through media reporting of current events must be struck by the evident insolubility of the most critical national and international issues facing our nation. Let me beg to differ and argue that many such issues could readily be solved with a modest dose of humility from the relevant interest groups. November 20 versus
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Americans are the most productive people on the Earth — and it’s a good thing, too, or we’d have collapsed into ruin long ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is that just because we haven’t collapsed into ruin, doesn’t mean that isn’t the road we’re on. A long road leading right to the
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(Lacheev/Getty Images) I couldn’t have been older than seven when I came up with quite the one-liner. A real zinger. One day, I approached my parents and asked them something along the lines of “Why is there a Father’s Day and a Mother’s Day, but no Kid’s Day?” Straight-faced, my mom replied: “Every day is
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(Sviatlana Lazarenka/Getty Images) The Wall Street Journal has a piece about the Small Business Administration disaster-loan program’s performance during the pandemic, and concludes that it was terrible. The article is interesting and worth a read as it highlights the ordeal that small-business owners went through when trying to deal with the SBA and its process
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Joey Biden believes that Americans need to be manipulated and turned in the correct, woke, direction, in this case in the direction of defeating the non-existent threat of warming/change, so he cancelled the Keystone pipeline, announced that he would end federal support of coal power generation by December of 2021, and intends to have gas-powered
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is launching a new mission on Friday to analyze what parts of its agency have potential barriers for historically “underrepresented and underserved” communities. Mission Equity is an endeavor to look at the agency’s programs, procurements, grants, and policies to examine what challenges exist for minorities who want to join
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally in St Louis, Missouri, U.S., March 9, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Bernie Sanders has written an essay in Foreign Affairs, titled “Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China,” to sketch out the contours of a progressive China policy cognizant of the challenge posed by the Chinese Communist
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One way in which journalists try and terrify viewers into endorsing every expensive environmental prescription is to constantly – and wrongly – predict the apocalypse is just around the corner. Fifteen years ago this week, the not-yet-disgraced Matt Lauer did exactly that with a two hour special outsourced to the SyFy Channel: Countdown to Doomsday. (We’re
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Andrew Yang is catching flak for this debate answer about letting untreated severely mentally ill people wander the streets, but he’s absolutely right — it’s bad for the mentally ill and bad for the city: Watch: Andrew Yang’s response to a question about how he would handle mental health during Wednesday’s NYC mayoral debate drew
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