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Smart Guns Hit the Market
After years of development and promotion, smart guns are finally on the market. In December, a brand called the Biofire Smart Gun will be widely available to US citizens from Florida to Oregon. Smart guns…
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European Union Countries, Liberal on Most Issues, Are Putting a Lid on Immigration
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister The European Union is ratcheting down the flow of immigrants through negotiated migration and asylum policies and tighter enforcement at the borders. The…
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The World Is Getting Older. Fast!
It’s not just my generation, it’s the Baby Boomers. And it’s not just in the USA. The population of the entire world is aging. And aging fast. To get a feel for how important this is, check out this chart…
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Mike Pence: Like Abbott & Costello in One Person
Mike Pence has an interesting personality. On the one hand, he comes off as contemplative and serious. On the other hand, he often says things that make my jaw drop. In this example, he responds to a very…
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What’s FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan Really Up To?
Lina Khan The FTC is going after OpenAI’s ChatGPT by “investigating” whether the technology may be “harming people” by publishing false information about them. In a July 13 press release accompanying a civil…
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Hunter’s Inside Deal
Did Hunter Biden get a special deal in getting a “diversion” for his tax violations? There’s no doubt about it. As one tax expert stated in a Congressional deposition, this may be the first time in history…
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Take Away My Liberty, but Don’t Touch My Pronouns
[caption id="attachment_27194" align="alignnone" width="300"] Lee Aldrich [/caption] When you are convicted of felony murder in America, you lose a bunch of your rights, including your constitutional right to…
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Everyone Wants to Be a Victim in America Today – Even Skinny People!
It’s no longer cool to win a gold medal or graduate cum laude or start a successful business or climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. In today’s America, the only sure way to get attention is to figure out and complain about…
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Sleeping Man Shoots Himself in Self-Defense
I’m trying to decide what to make of this story… or what the Illinois DA was thinking. A 62-year-old man is facing firearms charges in Illinois after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the leg in…
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Finally, Some Social Justice for Green Activists
From ArtNews: A Vatican court convicted two environmental activists of aggravated damage for gluing their hands to an ancient statue in a Vatican museum during a climate change protest last August. They were…
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Is it Just Me, or Is the Cold War Getting Warmer?
Am I the only one that fears the US is getting closer to a nuclear war with Russia? Or could it be that everyone else in America believes that a nuclear war is one that we can survive? Or even win? In some…
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Beat This!
I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in February 2010. (I’ve written about that ordeal several times.) After a four-day slog, our little group was finally at 19,000 feet, just a few hours away from reaching the apex, and…
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Don’t Judge Them! And Don’t Call Them Pedophiles!
Have you heard about the new class of oppressed and marginalized people? Unrecognized (until now) victims of societal prejudice? They call themselves MAPs. An acronym for “Minor-Attracted Persons.” Yes, we…
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Justice in Trudeau’s Canada Is Simple – It’s Either Black or White
The US justice system has a concept called “extenuating circumstances.” Extenuating circumstances are mitigating facts or details that are important for fully understanding the circumstances that may have…
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The Digital Dollar Is Getting Nearer
The federal government’s plans to replace the paper dollar with a digital one continues apace. Recently, Biden and his appointees have been talking up the CBDC (central bank digital currency). As I predicted…
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When I think about racism in the US…
I don’t think about incarceration data, SAT results, or other “systemic” issues… I think about this. And this. A Modern-Day Witch Trial There are many good people working in and around the challenge of autism…
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Why You Can’t Trust Science Anymore
If you know how to search Google reasonably well, you can find studies to support just about any idea you favor. And some of those studies will be convincing. The problem is: Convincing does not = valid or…
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China Is Winning This Battle, Too!
As you might remember, I lived for two years in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. My assignment was teaching literature at the University of Chad. As a college teacher in the capital city, I had many…
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Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?
Freddie DeBoer believes this “either/or” question, posed by Bari Weiss in The Free Press, is hype, meant to sell you on the idea that AI is something to wholeheartedly embrace: “The very notion that the world…
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Inoue vs. Stossel: “People Like You…
For decades – and certainly since I was in college and graduate school in the early 1970s – higher education in America has had an attachment to Marxism and derivative ideologies. Since the turn of the…
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The End of Unbiased Reporting
The Ubiquity of Advocacy Journalism And the Elon Musk BBC Interview Reporting the facts, and all the facts, fairly and impartially, was once the acknowledged standard of journalism. It wasn’t always met. But…
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Vegetarians vs Carnivores: Another Point for Meat Meaters
I have a good friend that has been following a strict vegetarian diet for many years. He’s super energetic and swears by it. If I had to judge by his activity and demeanor, I’d say it has worked for him…
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Gun Control: I Said I’d Get Back to You
As promised, I’ve spent a fair amount of time this week researching the question I asked on Tuesday: Do gun control policies reduce gun-related deaths? What I discovered is that most of what one is likely to…
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When More Than 650 Refugees Arrived in This Town
When More Than 650 Refugees Arrived in This Town... LC, a friend, forwarded me this story. It’s about how, in a rural town in Australia, attitudes towards immigrants improved over a period of several years. I…
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Putting Out the Fire on the Gas Stove Debate
Have you heard all the hullabaloo about the danger of gas stoves? According to some, the emissions are causing asthma and other respiratory diseases in people (including children) exposed to them. Really?…
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Who Wants Gun Control?
In a recent essay in The Free Press, Nellie Bowles (a very smart and funny writer) wrote that “while conservatives balk at even the mildest gun control efforts... progressives have absolutely no intention of…
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AI's Impact On Professional Writing And Copywriting
More on AI * In this NYT article, Rebecca Matter, my partner in American Writers & Artists Institute, and Guillermo Rubio, a successful freelance copywriter I once mentored, talk about how AI is changing the…
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Trump’s Impending Arrest
Is That a Good Thing? Many of my friends and relatives are overjoyed by the prospect of seeing Trump arrested in New York. This is reminiscent of how they felt, early in Trump’s presidency, when they were…
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Remember Amanda Knox?
In November 2007, in Perugia, Italy, an American exchange student named Amanda Knox was accused of having taken part in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was accused even though there…
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Macron's Risky Bet On French Pension Reform
C’est Ironique! You’ve probably read about it: Emmanuel Macron pulled off a tricky maneuver to increase the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 by 2030. The news ignited protests all over the country. Click…
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The Sam Brinton Story Just Got Weirder
Do you remember Sam Brintin? The MIT graduate/ non-binary person that the Biden administration hired as a Deputy Assistant to the nuclear waste bureau of the Department of Energy? If you don’t remember, here’s…
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College Students Are Turning Away From the Humanities
Is That a Problem for the Next Generation? SL and I are on the board of a task force at a local university. The goal is to boost enrollment in courses offered by the English Department. We were asked to help…
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The Penalty for Rape in Canada Is… What?
Ever since Justin Trudeau became Canada’s leader, he’s been showing the rest of the world what it looks like to advance the sort of woke political agenda that is just getting underway in the US. One of his…
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Is There Really a Fentanyl Crisis?
If you watch conservative media, you are familiar with the claim that the Biden administration’s border policy has resulted in a flood of fentanyl into the US and a huge surge in fentanyl-related deaths. Is…
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What Our World Population Will Look Like in 2050
Back in September, I wrote about how dramatically the world is changing. More recently, I found this visualization of the population of the world in 2050. Once again, I was amazed. For example: While the US…
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Political Correctness: Identifying Suspects
Two years ago, in preparation for an essay I never wrote, I was researching a scary spike in gang rapes that occurred in Sweden from 2000 to 2020. From data compiled between 2000 and about 2015, one could see…
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The Aerial Invasion: Are They Spycraft? Weather Balloons? Or what?
The Aerial Invasion: Are They Spycraft? Weather Balloons? Or what? John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, admitted that the mysterious UFOs the military has been…
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Bits and Pieces — February 14, 2023
Bits and Pieces From National Geographic: Nature’s Design for Having Babies How big an issue is age in predicting fertility in women? And what should women do if they hear “the clock ticking”? Here’s a good…
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Bits and Pieces — February 10, 2023
Bits and Pieces A Surprise Gift from Nicaragua to America Nicaragua released 222 political prisoners to the US yesterday, as part of a negotiated deal between the administrations of Daniel Ortega and Joe Biden…
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Bits and Pieces — February 7, 2023
Bits and Pieces (Maybe) Good News About the American Economy More than 500,000 non-farm jobs were added to the American economy last month. More than twice the number predicted by most mainstream economists…
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Bits and Pieces — February 3, 2023
Bits and Pieces A CEO’s Perspective Click here for an outlook on the US economy from Starwood Capital CEO Barry Sternlicht. Friend and colleague JS sent this in, saying, “Listen to this CEO as compared to what…
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Five Quick Bits From “YouTube Shorts
Warren Buffett on Gold Years ago, when gold was trading in the $400s, I bought a fair amount. Enough to get my family through a complete economic collapse. I don’t regret that. But I can’t refute what Warren…
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One Way to Thin Down an Overcrowded Population
Tokyo is crowded. Really, really crowded. But with a declining reproduction rate, that shouldn’t be a long-term problem. That’s how I see it. The Japanese government, though – which is comprised of dozens of…
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The Harsh Truth About Going Vegan
I once read a great book on the vegan/paleo debate called The Vegetarian Myth . It was written by Lierre Keith, a self-described radical feminist and former vegetarian. The Vegetarian Myth covers four aspects…
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Will Jordan Peterson Lose His License for Wrong-Thinking?
Jordan Peterson, Canada’s best known public intellectual, is being required to submit to “re-education” therapy. The reason? Complaints about incendiary comments he’s been making on social media about, among…
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A More Threatening Threat
Early in December, hoodlums shot down power lines in two major power stations in Moore County, NC. The result: 45,000 homes were without power for close to a week. Schools were shut down. Many businesses were…
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How Far Did He Go?
The Sam Bankman-Fried story keeps getting bigger. On Tuesday, I made the point that the mainstream media has been either sympathetic to or suspiciously quiet about this multibillion-dollar scammer. He was…
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A Conversation with Bill Bonner and Porter Stansberry
If you are in the mood to learn something about the state of the economy and why I believe a major recession is inevitable, listen to this conversation between two of my better-educated friends and colleagues…
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Lots Happening at Amazon…
* The week before last, Amazon set a mind-boggling record. It became the first public company ever to lose $1 trillion in valuation, dropping from almost $1.9 in July 2021 to $879 billion. (It’s back up to…
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The Truth About Kale
For the first 60 years of my life, I knew nothing about kale. I had never even encountered the word. Then… there it was. On every restaurant menu and on every foodie’s lips. Not only were all my posh friends…
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