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Country Music Is Booming
Country Music Is Booming It’s big and getting bigger – and in a very democratic way: through sampling on social media. I’ve been predicting to people in my industry that the internet and social media have set…
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Trump and Harris: Who Gets the Most Credit for This Bad Idea?
Trump and Harris: Who Gets the Most Credit for This Bad Idea? In June (I think it was), Trump announced that he was going to make workers’ tips nontaxable. Then last week, Harris made the same promise. I’m…
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Antisemitism in US and European Colleges and Universities Hasn’t Gone Away. It’s Just Summer
Antisemitism in US and European Colleges and Universities Hasn’t Gone Away. It’s Just Summer. Since the school year ended, the large anti-Israeli protests have been few and far between. All students, even…
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Fake News and Facts About Replacing Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy
Fake News and Facts About Replacing Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy In the last 20 years, there has been a much-heralded effort to reduce greenhouse emissions (and, thus, inhibit climate change) by…
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Just a Few Questions About the Attempted Assassination. That’s All
Just a Few Questions About the Attempted Assassination. That’s All. I know what you are going to say… and you are right. As to this attempted assassination of Trump, I’m a conspiracy theorist. I mean. Really…
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AI And Robotics Will Displace White-Collar Workers Too
Is AI and Robotics Really a Big Thing? Or Is It Just Another Technological Innovation That Will Have Little Impact on Our World? We’ve long accepted the idea that the rapid development of AI and robotics will…
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It’s Not Us… It’s Russia!
It’s Not Us… It’s Russia! First, they sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign… Then, after we threatened to do it, they sabotaged their primary source of revenue by blowing up the Nord Stream…
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Bad News: More Voting Fraud
Two political leaders in Connecticut were arrested and charged with election fraud last week. City Councilman Alfredo Castillo, Vice Chair of Bridgeport’s Democrat Party, and Wanda Geter-Pataky, head of the…
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Question to My Boston-Based Readers
How Do You Feel About Your New Mayor? Boston’s 39-year-old Mayor, Michelle Wu, has stated publicly that one of her top priorities when she takes office is to make many crimes off-limits to prosecution. I doubt…
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If Necessary, Use Deadly Force?
If Necessary, Use Deadly Force? When JM, my ex-Navy Seal trainer told me about it, I thought it couldn’t possibly be true. Trying to defeat your political opponent through “lawfare” is tacky enough for a…
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The New Angst Over Grade Inflation
The New Angst Over Grade Inflation There are a few rules of life that anyone over 30 understands from experience. Among them is that making challenges easier for your children, your mentees, your employees…
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Brilliant. Scary. Crazy
Brilliant. Scary. Crazy. Meet Victoria Shi She is a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But she’s not real. She’s AI-generated. In this clip, she introduces herself and explains how she was…
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Election Watch — May 1, 2024
Trump’s “Show Trial” in Manhattan: An Embarrassment to the American Justice System? From Alex Berenson in the 4/24 issue of Unreported Truths: Like Trump or dislike him (and as you know, I dislike him), he is…
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The Latest on the Israel-Hamas Front
A Proposal Dismissed. Another Suggested and Not Yet Rejected. Will There Ever Be a Two-State Solution? Iranians at an anti-Israel rally in Tehran If there is one thing I’ve learned from researching the…
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Trends in Wokeness
Don’t Believe What McKinsey Has Been Saying It doesn’t take a master’s degree from Wharton to understand that DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), as a business agenda, makes zero sense. It’s not because those…
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Election Watch — April 8, 2024
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Kennedy? I’ve wondered which party JFK Jr.’s independent campaign will hurt the most. If you can judge by the response to it, it’s the Democrats, says Bill Bonner in the April 9…
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Conspiracy Watch — April 3, 2024
Was the Bridge Collapse Sabotage? After a cargo ship took down the Francis Scott Key bridge in Twin Tower fashion last week, I was not entirely surprised to learn that some people wondered if it was a planned…
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The End of Western Culture
Disparate Impact: Do You Know What That Means? In this essay, conservative political commentator Heather Mac Donald bravely articulates the facts about the concept of “disparate impact” and how it this…
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Health Watch — March 19, 2024
A Persuasive Argument for Vitamin D Supplementation I’ve been following Dr. John Campbell for quite a while. He’s always struck me as reasonable, restrained, and believable. In this short but informative…
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Someone Among the COVID Skeptics Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize This Year: 3 Reasons
I promised to publish my “controversial” essays as Special Issues. And I am working on several of them right now. But last week, I found this little list somewhere (maybe on The Vigilant Fox website), and I…
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Election Watch — February 27, 2024
Election Watch Jon Stewart on “Electile Dysfunction” Jon Stewart is an interesting person. He’s indisputably an accomplished comic performer who has been remarkably successful at lampooning public issues and…
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The Blue State vs. Red State Population War Continues
New York isn’t the only state losing entrepreneurs and high-income earners to lower-tax and lower-cost-of-living states like Florida and Texas. California is having the same experience. And for similar reasons…
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Election Watch — February 12, 2024
1. Back to My Prediction re the 2024 Election Late last week, in response to special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified information, the Dept. of Justice admitted that Biden did…
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Conspiracy Watch — February 6, 2024
1. Is Taylor Swift a Psyop? In the middle of digging into my neck muscles, G, my massage therapist, said something about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce being some sort of “psyop,” and that, somehow, they were…
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Conspiracy Watch What Really Happened to George Floyd? Three years after George Floyd died lying on the ground, face down, under the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, some surprising and, for some, inconvenient…
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Election Watch
Election Watch Trump Must Be Reading This Blog Donald Trump must be reading my blog, because he’s just predicted that Biden won’t be running against him in the 2024 election. In a recent interview with…
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Two Takes on Dems’ Efforts to Keep Trump Off the Ballots
Two Takes on Dems’ Efforts to Keep Trump Off the Ballots Republican Senator Eric Schmitt calls the Colorado Supreme Court ruling to remove Trump from the state primary ballot “one of the most dangerous court…
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Health Watch — January 2, 2024
Health Watch More Bad News About Statin Drugs As I’ve told you before, since I began researching statin drugs several years ago, I have yet to find any research indicating that taking them increases lifespan…
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Health Watch The High Cost of Mediocre Healthcare in America The US spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world. And yet, it ranks 59th in the world in terms of life expectancy…
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The US Army Puts in Place a New Vax Policy
For most of my life, the US Army was a refuge for young men that didn’t have college plans or a trade they intended to learn. It was an organization that offered not just food and lodging, but education and…
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More Countries Rejecting Leftist Economic Policies
“First, it was Italy. Then came Finland and Greece. Spain could be next,” says Suzanne Lynch, writing for Politico. “Across Europe, governments are shifting right. In some places, far-right leaders are taking…
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A Big Surprising Win in Argentina for Javier Milei, a Self-Described “Anarcho Capitalist
Javier Milei [ A Big Surprising Win in Argentina for Javier Milei, a Self-Described “Anarcho Capitalist” In the last several days, Argentinians have been talking about almost nothing but the surprise victory…
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Teaching: Why Experience Matters
Bill Browder in Moscow Bill Browder is an extremely successful entrepreneur that made his fortune in Russia and wrote a good book about it – Red Notice. (You can read my review of it here.) TS sent me this…
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Hamas vs. Israeli Killing: Is There a Moral Equivalence?
I was going to write an argument on the moral equivalency of the Muslim killings versus the Israeli killings in the current conflict, a topic that’s been debated daily on the Internet since Hamas attacked and…
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Where Do You Stand on America’s Involvement in the Israeli/Hamas War?
Republican lawmakers are largely united on aiding Israel, but divided over whether to help Ukraine, while Democrats largely agree on assisting Ukraine but are torn on supporting Israel. In this WSJ report…
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Did You Write That?
Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, US District Judge nominee for the District of Oregon, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week Over the past several years, I’ve watched dozens of Congressional and Senate…
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The Mysterious Math of Illegal Immigration
An unmarked white bus pulled up to an empty park in New Jersey in the wee hours of the morning. Out came about 50 recently arrived migrants. They had no idea where they were and no place to sleep that night…
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TED Talks: Ideas Worth… Spreading?
Coleman Hughes giving his TED Talk, “A Case for Color Blindness,” posted July 28 On Saturday, I introduced you to Coleman Hughes, an up-and-coming Black Conservative whose TED Talk, in which he defended “color…
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I’m Feeling Good About the Supreme Court
Can we put aside the ruling on abortion for a moment? (Which I felt was correct from a constitutional point of view, although I’m in favor of mothers having the final say.) I don’t think about the Supreme…
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Conspiracy Update: The Election Fixing Plan Is in Full Swing
I almost can’t believe they’ve made this move so blatantly and so soon. I’m talking about the Biden administration’s recent announcement that it was going to grant “temporary legal status” to hundreds of…
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$267 Million vs. $31 Million? Will Newsom’s Crime Reduction Plan Work?
Governor Newsom is allocating $267 million to a new grant program he’s touting to combat the pandemic of department store thefts in the state’s larger cities. “Enough with these brazen smash-and-grabs,” Newsom…
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The Roof of the World
An excerpt from an interesting essay by Garrett Baldwin, a colleague of mine, on the next arena of the Cold War as competition between the US and Russia heats up among the ice floes: “Russia is working…
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A Wild Ride with Jimmy Buffett
A Wild Ride with Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Buffett died last week at the age of 76. He was one of the great songwriters, singers, and storytellers of my generation. There have been lots of articles, obituaries, and…
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Subway Surfing
Click here to read a well-written piece by an evidently smart young writer (published by The Free Press). It describes a new sort of urban “tribe” of even younger men that surf on the top of city trains and…
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A Town That Decided to Pay Out Reparations
Louis Weathers, 88, at the home he’s owned for more than 60 years in Evanston, IL There are so many flaws in the argument in favor of federal and state governments giving “reparations” to African Americans. I…
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Another Civil War? The Math Is Scary
The battle between Democrats and Republicans is heating up. A recent study published by the University of Chicago’s Project on Security & Threats reports a steep rise in the percentage of each group that is…
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Cover Your Face and Shut Your Mouth
Tuesday, Aug. 15, was two years since the US withdrew from Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, despite initial promises to respect women’s rights under Sharia law, the Taliban has imposed all sorts of new…
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More on Biden’s Early Resignation
On April 18 and then again on July 28, I speculated that Biden would not be a candidate for the 2024 election. I came up with that conspiracy theory based on two observations: 1.- The obvious fact that he is…
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Remote Work Is Dead… at Zoom?
Most of the businesses I work with are making efforts to get employees back to work. Zoom meetings are useful and efficient, the CEOs say, but there is something missing when employees work remotely all the…
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How Much Longer Will Joe Be Protected?
President Biden’s story about having nothing whatsoever to do with Hunter’s overseas consulting business keeps getting thinner. Even the corporate media is catching on. On July 28, I talked about some of the…
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