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Why I’ll (Probably) Vote Next Week
Why I’ll (Probably) Vote Next Week My 50-Year Transition Towards Conservatism Brett, the young man who cuts my hair every three weeks, was an early voter this year. We talked about his choices – the votes he…
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Who’s Controlling the Information You Get Online?
Zuckerberg just emptied out the whole can of beans. Prior to the 2020 election, the FBI and the Justice Department intimidated Facebook into flagging scientific studies whose results were critical of the COVID…
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The Greatness and Difficulty of English
English is spoken in the big cities of just about any country an American tourist might visit. Do anything touristy, like check in to a hotel or go to a restaurant or go shopping, and you will find people that…
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How Much Do You Know About US Debt?
Question: Do you know what the current level of US government debt is? Answer: $35 trillion in national debt – which is $105,000 for every individual and $270,000 for every US household. Question: Do you know…
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Humanity’s Greatest Existential Threat
From GM, a regular contributor: “After witnessing the stupendous failure of the Secret Service in Butler, PA (and the press conferences), and not wishing to believe it was intentional, I sought to find another…
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Caveat Intellectualis
My brother, who is a serious academic, once mentioned that one of the things he does to keep au courant on the literary news outside his specialty (Greek and Latin philology) is to read Literary Hub, an e-zine…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway Originally published in 1940 480 pages After reading The Hemingway Stories, the collection I reviewed on May 13, I pulled an old copy of For Whom the Bells Tolls from my home library, read…
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Learning How to Forgive Yourself
I recently delivered a video presentation to senior executives in a Japanese publishing company I write for titled “The Zen Secret for Never Regretting Your Business and Financial Decisions.” In that…
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The Decline of the Convertible
The Decline of the Convertible Something is going on in America that is not especially newsworthy, but it is intriguing. Because it must reflect some sort of larger social or economic change that perhaps is…
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Hate Speech? Or Legitimate Call for Resistance?
SH sent me this article from The New York Times about Khymani James, a student at Columbia who was barred from the school’s campus after comments he made on social media went viral. SH included this video of…
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CEOs Should Never Be on Vacation
I’m sure that many people who read the next paragraph will think I’m kidding. And I’m sure that those that realize I’m not kidding will think I’m both irrational and also inhumane. Nevertheless, I have to say…
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So Many People in Jail for Using Drugs…
What If We Decriminalized It? It’s no secret that there are more people in jail in the US than in any other country. In recent years, it’s been about 1.8 million and 1.9 million. China is next with about 1.6…
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Trump’s New York Civil Fraud Case
What, Exactly, Was the “Crime” He Committed? Last week, a Manhattan judge fined Donald Trump and The Trump Organization $355 million and barred him from serving in a top role of any New York company for three…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — December 15, 2023
New Information About Fauci’s role in the Cover-up According to a CIA whistleblower and information obtained from the House Oversight Committee, Anthony Fauci did in fact play a major role in both the creation…
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What If, as New Studies Suggest, the Alarmists Are Right?
Is There Anything to Be Done to Defeat “Post Vaccination Syndrome”? In the Oct. 20 issue, I talked about spike proteins – projections on the surface of some viruses (including COVID-19) that facilitate the…
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Nikki Haley’s Plan for Managing the Future of Social Media in America
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said that if she becomes president, the first thing she’ll do is make social media platforms show their algorithms. “Let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing,”…
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Evidence on the Adverse Effects of the COVID Vaccines Is Piling Up
Who’s Counting? Many drugs and medical procedures have adverse reactions. That includes radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. The sensible and historic response to reports of these adverse reactions is to…
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My Conspiracy Prediction Is Looking Good
As regular readers know, I’ve been predicting that Biden would not be the Democrat nominee for president for more than a year. He won the 2020 election because Democratic strategists wisely made it about…
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Five New COVID Discoveries and Stories You Haven’t Heard About
Celebs dying! One of the COVID “conspiracy” newsletters I read occasionally is dedicated to keeping the public on top of the young actors, athletes, and other celebrities that have been mysteriously dying…
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Recent Notable Reactions to the Israel/Hamas War
“It wasn’t the rallies with ‘Keep the World Clean’ posters and chants of ‘gas the Jews.’ Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and…
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On the Economy
* The average net worth of American families topped $1 million for the first time last year, according to the Federal Reserve. That average is skewed to a degree by a small number of billionaires and…
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US University-Hamas Alignment Continues to Grow
The anti-Israel sentiment that began about two minutes after Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered innocent civilians continues to rise in Academia. This past week, for example… * Nearly 2,000 sociologists…
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Another Way to Look at the Israeli/Hamas War
Hamas’s brutal and barbaric attack on Israel was done to provoke Israel to conduct a land war in Gaza. Hamas leaders believe they have the wherewithal to eventually defeat Israel by making it a long and…
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Unpleasant Advice That Works
“During my eight years in college, I spent many thousands of hours reading about economics, politics, and philosophy. Since high school, I’ve spent over ten thousand hours writing. When young people ask me…
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Bill Bonner on War and the “Hypocrisy of the Elites
“But for our purposes, we are focused neither on the wolves nor the lambs, but on the shepherds. In a civilized world… leaders of countries such as the US, France, and Germany would be trying to protect the…
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The Difference Between Ambition and Entitlement
“Ambition is when you expect yourself to close the gap between what you have and what you want. Entitlement is when you expect others to close the gap between what you have and what you want.” – James Clear
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The US is courting trouble
“The federal government is 43% larger than it was four years ago, and its reach is expanding mightily. More than a third of the surge in investment spending [since then] can be traced to government subsidies…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — September 22, 2023
The Government Censored Them and They Fought Back Dr. Jay Bhattacharya The Biden administration (along with the Justice Department, the FDA, and the FBI) has waged an all-out war against anyone – especially…
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The COVID Response: Meet Dr. Fauci’s Replacement
Was She as Wrong About the Facts as He Was? Dr. Anthony Fauci, arguably the most likeable non-elected government official in recent memory, resigned last year from his role as director of NIAID (National…
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Who Is This Taylor Swift Person?
If I’ve ever heard a Taylor Swift song, I wasn’t aware of it. I’m just too old. And, happily, out of touch with the pop music scene today. I’m not embarrassed to admit that. I mean, by the time she hit the…
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A Long-Awaited Truth About COVID from a Surprising Source: the NYT!
I have predicted many times that the mainstream media will eventually have to tell the truth about COVID, which would mean correcting so much of the fake news that they, and the rest of Corporate Media, have…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — July 7, 2023
Another Finding That Contradicts the CDC Narrative Several of my friends (and perhaps hundreds of my readers) think my take on COVID is crazy, as in conspiratorial. Trusting the mainstream media implicitly…
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John Durham's Deposition Reveals FBI's Russia Investigation Origins
More Enjoyable Than Depp vs. Heard. More Sinister than the Watergate Conspiracy. More Believable Than… Well, You’ll Either Believe It or You Won’t! If you are a reader of any city paper whose name includes the…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — June 23, 2023
The NYT’s COVID Tracker Is Back! It seems that the NYT has resumed making updates to its COVID tracking pages. CA forwarded the first one to me, showing that there are still 684 deaths per week attributed to…
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Totalitarianism: What, Exactly, Does It Mean?
“The essential characteristic of totalitarian governments is that 100% of the population lies 100% of the time.” Dr. Jordan B. Peterson That’s what Dr. Jordan B. Peterson said in this interview. (Or something…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — June 14, 2023
Moderna and Its Investors Made Billions Selling a Fake Vaccine I’ve been critical of our government’s handling of the COVID epidemic since the beginning. And I think every criticism I had in year one was…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — June 6, 2023
Have Your Ears Been Ringing? For as long as the COVID vaccines have been available, the CDC has received some complaints about ear-related problems. In a recent study, researchers reviewed 500 cases of…
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Word of the Day: Self — May 26, 2023
“Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.” – Rorion Gracie
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — May 19, 2023
The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality A large meta study of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) reported by vaccine manufacturers found that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines did not impact overall…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — May 12, 2023
Another Validated Side Effect of the Vaccines JM, one of my trainers and physical therapists, sent me the link below on a study about the relationship between COVID vaccines and the incidence of retinal…
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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — May 2, 2023
The Craziest Part of the Propaganda As I hope you know by now, virtually every important statement that Fauci and crew told the press in 2020, 2021, and 2022 about COVID, including its origins, its…
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The COVID Response: Are Vaccines Bad for the Brain? Or Is This Another Conspiracy Theory?
One of the claims made against COVID vaccination is that it can cause a variety of mild to deadly brain problems. I’ve already suffered three of the possible side effects. I had an ischemic stroke, an optic…
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
Do We Need Stop-and-ID Laws? Stop-and-frisk was a policy that was ruled legal in 1968. In Terry vs. Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled to allow police officers the flexibility to temporarily detain and search…
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The COVID Response: What We got Wrong — April 18, 2023
Have You Heard of Project Next Gen? Project Next Gen is a $5 billion government program advertised as “accelerating the development of new coronavirus vaccines and treatments, seeking to better protect against…
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The COVID Response: What We got Wrong — April 14, 2023
The News You Didn’t See Why Didn’t You Hear About This? This should have been breakthrough news. But you never heard about it because you get your news from the mainstream media. At a congressional hearing on…
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The COVID Response: What We got Wrong
The CDC on Mortality Counts: “Okay, You Caught Us!” The CDC is finally adjusting its mortality count to correct for its absurdly disingenuous and misleading decision, at the beginning of the pandemic, to…
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WHO's New Power Grab Threatens Free Speech Rights
Here’s a Great Idea... From the People that Brought the World Four Years of Economic Destruction, Social Polarization, and Global Hysteria! Rather than apologizing for all the misinformation and bad advice it…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 28, 2023
In the News This Week * Protection From the New COVID-19 Vaccines Is Weak and Short-Lived More evidence for this keeps coming in: The new bivalent vaccines are much less effective than advertised. When…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 24, 2023
More on the Seriousness of the Vaccine Side Effects It’s now reasonably well documented that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines had side effects beyond the usual (aches, pains, fatigue) that are commonly…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 21, 2023
The Lab-Leak Debate: What Is Gain-of-Function Research, Anyway? In response to the US Energy Department, the FBI, and several prominent scientists announcing that it was looking much, much more likely that…
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