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UNDERWOOD: Summer Debunks The Daycare Fallacy

June 3, 2026June 2, 2026 Ian Underwood

[Originally published in April 2025. It seems like a good time to remind people of this.] Every summer, kids are out of school for about 80 days, almost 3 months. So, what do parents do with their kids during that time? It’s not like their jobs end. It’s not like they can take 3 months … Read more

Steve Kirsch: The Vaccine has Killed Twice as Many Kids as COVID

December 13, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Steve Kirsch is back to wrestle with the ‘Experts’ fuzzy math, crawling through the bureaucratic fog to find answers. One of those “answers” suggests that twice as many “kids” have died from the Vaccine as from COVID.

New Study – Zero COVID Deaths in Healthy Kids…

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

If your state is boosting the idea of jabbing kids aged 5-11, you might want to take a step back. It’s not just New Hampshire that has had no deaths from the Rona in this age group.

Wake Up And Laugh: When You’re Single And Don’t Have Kids

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Steve MacDonald

While you may have been awake for a while already (if not, good for you) it’s never a bad time for a Friday morning funny. Here’s a couple of comics talking about being single, having married friends with kids, dating.

Mellisa Harris Perry MSNBC Lean Forward Screen Grab

Too many School Boards and Teachers Unions still believe this

October 10, 2021 Skip

Back in 2013, I shared then MSNBC hostess Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry‘s video “All Your Kids Belong To The Community” ala Hillary’s “It Takes A Village.” Remember, Communists believe everything and everyONE is to be “held in common.” And since we know Communism doesn’t believe in private property, they don’t believe in private families, either.

AOC Unusually Quiet About Open-Border Biden’s Reopened ‘Concentration Camps’ for Kidz

July 28, 2022February 24, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Remember that time, at the border, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to the border to cry for the children in cages (Obama Built!). She was photographed weeping at a fence next to a parking lot. She called them concentration camps which Open Borders Biden has reopened; only AOC doesn’t seem all that upset about it.

Things We Know About Coronavirus (Part 3 of 3)

August 8, 2020

So, is the sky falling or was coronavirus an acorn? Let’s start listing what we know. We know the best guess is about 1.4% of the U.S. population has had the coronavirus. As of Aug. 2, Johns Hopkins University had tallied nearly 4.7 million cases. That’s about 1.4% of the U.S. population.

10-Year-Old Boys Were Charged with a Felony for Pointing Nerf Weapons at a Passing Vehicle

March 6, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Back in the day, we used to play war. All the time. The toy guns looked real. We pointed them at each other and then argued about who shot who first and who should be dead. No one cared or complained. Parents were happy to see us outside. But times have changed.

Sell Don’t Tell… Part 2 of 2

August 16, 2019

People have all kinds of different preferences. We tend to like all kinds of different things. People do all sorts of dumb stuff. We want to share our passion with others sometimes. Sometimes we want to keep people from following in our missteps. We should all work to sell the value of our views. But … Read more

Gov. Matt Bevin – Gun Control and the Value of Life

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin had some great thoughts on gun violence and culture a few months back. Skip wrote about this back in February. For many of us social conservatives, he confirms what we’ve known for decades – that Progressives have deliberately destroyed the social norms that once existed that kept people “in check” just … Read more

The Truth No One Wants to Hear

July 15, 2024February 26, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire House Assistant Majority Leader Victoria Sullivan joins me to discuss kids culture and violence in the wake of the recent Florida shootings, with a focus on her recent article at NH Political Buzz.com, “The Truth No One Wants to Hear.” Find more ways to listen at the original blog post, here.

Kids say the darndest things…

September 26, 2018December 30, 2012

Friend of mine told me she was eating breakfast with her 13-year-old granddaughter and asked her, “What day is the 20th of February?” Granddaughter said “It’s President’s Day!” (She’s a smart kid.) So my friend asks “What does President’s Day mean?” and she was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln… etc. Granddaughter replied, “President’s … Read more

The New Up and Coming Scourge of Our Nations Youth: The Bouncy House?

September 26, 2018November 26, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The danger of bounce houses — Danger Will Robinson – DANGER!

The number of U.S. children hurt while using inflatable bouncers, such as bounce houses and moonwalks, is 15 times higher than in 1995, according to a new study.

That’s the lead from Reuters.

I didn’t look past the dead link at the bottom of the article but I’d love to know who the ‘researchers’ are and who paid them to figure this out because as I understand it the increased use or access to anything by the human animal will result in an increase in injuries.

“Groups should take a look at these data, help us get the word out and make sure parents are making informed decisions,” said Dr. Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

The number of kids being brought into emergency rooms (ERs) for the injuries increased from 702 in 1995 to 11,311 children in 2010.

Informed decisions…?