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It would be nice to have some kind of published list of businesses that aren’t COVID-crazy — businesses that now welcome customers who aren’t wearing masks, and later will welcome those who don’t carry ‘vaccine passports.’
It would be nice to have some kind of published list of businesses that aren’t COVID-crazy — businesses that now welcome customers who aren’t wearing masks, and later will welcome those who don’t carry ‘vaccine passports.’
President* Biden claimed today that ‘no amendment to the Constitution is absolute’. The idea that no rights are absolute is demonstrably wrong, as is the dumb example that he relied on to illustrate it. But we can ignore that for the moment. I say we take him at his word — not because he’s right, …
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President* Biden appears bent on pumping untold amounts of money into the economy, and predictably people are raising concerns that this will cause significant inflation, and even hyper-inflation. But those worriers are thinking about money in the old, ‘economic’ sense, because they haven’t read the fine print. (With the size of modern bills, who has …
The latest victim in the ongoing Carnival of Cancellation is the book The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, by Dav Pilkey. When I heard how awful it was, I figured I should read it. After all, how can I avoid engaging in ‘passive racism’ unless I know what it is? …
It’s one thing to hear outsiders making claims about conspiracies among political insiders to use the COVID panic to implement power grabs in areas having nothing to do with public health. They’re just conspiracy nuts, right?
Remember when Amazon pulled out of Seattle in part because of the city was planning to target its largest employers with a ‘head tax’? Remember when Amazon scuttled its plans to open a center in New York City, because AOC and other progressives organized opposition to the move? Clearly this is a company that is …
Apparently, there are some bills being considered in Concord that would place limits on the ideas that teachers at publicly-funded institutions can endorse during work hours.
Here’s a graph of NAEP (the National Assessment of Educational Progress) results, by state: This is for 4th grade reading, but the graphs for every grade and subject tell a similar story. It looks like there’s some real variation there, right? Some states are doing better. (They are ‘among the best’, as people in those …
Recently, someone forwarded me a letter to the editor, submitted by one of my ‘representatives‘ (Linda Tanner) in Concord, regarding school choice. She asked for my thoughts on it, which you can find (point by point) below.
Imagine a ‘public health’ crisis, in which: The media, and both major political parties, cooperate to weave an ‘official narrative’ about how the crisis was caused and what needs to be done about it. People who wish to share facts, or express opinions, that are not aligned with this narrative are defunded, defamed, and deplatformed. …