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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 17, 2023
Walking It Back… Walking It Back… Walking It Back DF sent in this article from The Atlantic, titled “Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?” It fits neatly with what I’ve been calling the “walking-back”…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 10, 2023
New Questions, New Answers As some readers have noticed, I’ve been devoting an increasing amount of space to all the misinformation we were sold about COVID. That’s not because my interest level has increased…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 7, 2023
The Final Word on Wearing Masks A friend of mine, whose spouse has COVID, has been told by his daughter that if he wants to see his granddaughter, he must wear a mask. Another friend insists that anyone who…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — March 3, 2023
The Conspiracy Behind the Theory That Turned Out to Be a Fact You’ve probably read about the recent statements by the US Energy Department and FBI. They believe, they now say, that the COVID-19 virus…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 28, 2023
More Bad News on Vaccines I’m sure you’ve read about it – the many reports confirming fears that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, which utilize messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, were causing heart…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 24, 2023
A Quick Summary of Where We’re At… I’m not finished writing about what so many governments, health organizations, and media outlets got wrong in their reporting and recommendations about COVID-19. There is…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 17, 2023
Part XIV: Do Booster Shots Cause Strokes?! I wonder… Was the stroke I had in September caused by the Pfizer vaccines I took? In January, the CDC released a warning, saying that they have evidence that getting…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 14, 2023
Part XIII: The Backtracking Speeds Up Almost every week since I began writing this series, there has been some revelation in the mainstream media about what the CDC got wrong about COVID. None of them admits…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 10, 2023
Part XII: More About the Masks On Dec. 20, 2022, I wrote about how inconsistent the reporting was on the effectiveness of wearing masks against COVID-19. I explained how the WHO, the CDC, and the US government…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — February 7, 2023
Part XI: The Biggest Mistake I have talked here about many mistakes made in the government’s response to COVID-19. But the biggest was the fundamental assumption that “locking down” cities, states, and…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — January 31, 2023
Part X: Black Africa’s Great Numbers On Friday, I said I’d write about something that has puzzled me since I began tracking the COVID case and mortality data in the middle of 2020. If you believed what the WHO…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — January 27, 2023
Part IX: China’s Bogus Claims In my last two blog posts, I wrote about how the WHO and the CDC rigged the records to exaggerate the number of COVID hospitalizations and deaths by 70% to 90% – and how the…
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Is Biden Being Betrayed by His Own Party?
Are you ready for a new conspiracy theory? Something topical and wild? Something completely unbelievable? Something I’m sticking my neck way out to predict? Yes? Okay. Here goes... When Biden announced that he…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — January 24, 2023
Part VIII: More on the Accuracy of the Count In this series, I’m trying to cover the many ways the WHO, the CDC, our government, and the mainstream media responded badly – in some cases, almost hysterically –…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — January 20, 2023
Part VII: The Accuracy of the Count The topic for today is about accuracy. The accuracy of the count for the number of people that have been hospitalized and died from COVID since the pandemic began. This is…
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Is the US a Democracy or a Republic?
Why It Matters Last week, I was having a discussion with an acquaintance about how our country has changed over the years. Mostly for the worse, in my opinion. (He was more optimistic.) One bone of contention…
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New Year Resolutions: Making Some Positive Changes in 2023
James Clear is a bestselling author and generally smart person who knows a lot about habits – how they are made and how they can be changed. In this interview with Peter Attia, (another smart person I follow)…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — December 20, 2022
Part VI: The Masks Photo of a WHO mission to China in 2020 At the beginning of the COVID crisis, in the early months of 2020, there was almost uniform agreement among scientists that the virus was an airborne…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — December 13, 2022
Part V: The Treatments Today, I’m going to take on yet another topic that was front page news for months... and then, simply disappeared. Do you remember when, early in 2020, President Trump talked about…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong — December 9, 2022
Part IV: Shutting Down Outside Activities Do you remember that, beginning in March of 2020, on the advice of the WHO and the CDC, the US began issuing mandatory stay-at-home orders? California was first, on…
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The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong
Part III: The Pandemic of the Unvaccinated Remember the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? That was the phrase Biden used on Sept. 9 of last year in a speech at the White House. He said: “This is a pandemic of…
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From Bill Bonner: Who’s More Anti-Democratic? The Red or the Blue?
Bill Bonner has an evenhanded view of US politics. As he explains in this essay, he believes both parties are equally culpable in running a rigged system that is steadily destroying the economy.
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About Capital Punishment…
I’ve always been opposed to capital punishment. My logic was simple. If I believed murder was evil, how could I justify punishing murderers by murdering them? Also, there was the question of wrongful…
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Groucho Marx On Money And Personal Unhappiness
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you buy your own form of misery.” – Groucho Marx
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Why This Young Black Woman Stopped Hating the Police
After the Freddie Gray killing in 2015, there was a great deal of anti-police sentiment in communities all over America. One of the accusations heard repeatedly was that the police were “systemically racist.”…
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The Dumbbell Prize for Economics: Were They Serious?
I thought it was a joke. I thought my colleague was kidding me. I opened the morning newspaper. It was true! Ben Bernanke had won the Nobel Prize for Economics! This was the same guy that almost…
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Politics vs. Science
Question: Which country has reduced CO2 emissions by the greatest number of total tons in the last 15 years? Answer: The USA. Question: Do scientists universally agree that “gender-affirming care” does more…
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The Earth’s Population in Perspective
BJ sent me this. I love these sorts of statistical lists… that put life into perspective. The Earth’s Population in Perspective The population of the Earth is around 7.8 billion. However, if you condense 7.8…
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How to Change Minds
The general opinion of left-leaning Americans about the Israeli/Palestine conflict has been pro-Palestine for the last 10 years. Palestinians living in Israel are seen as second-class citizens. And those…
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How safe are your kids and grandkids?
It’s not common, but there are predators out there kidnapping children. According to a study I recently read, they don’t do it by swooping in and scooping them up. They do it by beguiling them and luring them…
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What happens at the moment of death?
Researchers at NYU's Langone Medical Center conducted a study of patients that have had near-death experiences, and the results were intriguing and chilling. Click here to watch Dr. Sam Parnia, the director of…
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A Brief History of US / China Relations
Biden’s recent statement (following Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan last week) that the US would defend Taiwan against hostility by mainland China indisputably increased tensions between the world’s two largest…
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Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: a Lie Embedded in American History
Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: a Lie Embedded in American History I first read about the “lost cause” theory of the Civil War many years ago. Maybe 20. It’s the argument that the war was not about…
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Are Americans Becoming More Accepting of Strangers?
Lots of things are getting worse. The economy. Crime. Wealth and income inequality. Political discourse. But there is one aspect of our culture that has been getting better: cooperation among strangers…
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Bad Ideas!
Two of the most destructive ideas that took root in the 20th century – communism and psychoanalysis – were cooked up by two highly educated academics. Karl Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities…
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Thoughts on Learning Italian
Italian is a fourth language for me. But of the four, it is in one way my favorite. Italian has a tempo and openness to it that is much greater than English and equal to French and Spanish. On top of that, it…
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When Does Post-COVID Fatigue Become Long-Term COVID
I’m hearing a lot about Long-Term COVID these days. LP lost his sense of smell for nearly a year. JP has been getting headaches. JM is fatigued and sleeping more than ever. The CDC website lists it as a…
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Innocence Project Case Worth Following
This is a case I’ve been following from the Innocence Project. Click here.
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Lessons From TV Land
I was having a conversation with a friend last night about a TV series. Which was it? I think it was Godless. I said I had liked the first few episodes but gave up before the season ended. We were speculating…
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How to Destroy Your Wealth… and Your Family
How to Destroy Your Wealth… and Your Family It’s a well-accepted (and reasonably-well documented) fact that most family fortunes are dissipated within three generations. The first generation creates the wealth…
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Learning From Iraq Before Repeating History
The last time this happened was 20 years ago, when Congress granted President George W. Bush the power to launch a military attack against Iraq. The theme was “a war on terror.” The excuse was “weapons of mass…
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When You Are the Voice of Experience… 2 Questions to Ask Yourself
When you are young, you have the liberty to take up futile causes. You have the time to spend on them, and more time to abandon them when they go awry. When you are older, you can’t waste your time on idea…
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Old Man Humor
Another indignity of old age is the disintegration of critical skills, particularly when it comes to humor. In between our yearly get togethers, the 12 of us stay in touch by email, exchanging what is commonly…
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A Brief History of Nicaragua
Nicaragua has always been an agricultural economy. Before the 1979 revolution, most of the productive farmland was owned by a handful of very wealthy landholders. That said, Nicaragua’s GDP (gross domestic…
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Libel Versus Slander: Understanding Defamation's Two Forms
Defamation, as mentioned above, comes in two flavors: libel and slander. Many people have a hard time remembering the difference. It’s actually very easy: Libel is written defamation. Slander is oral…
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Word of the Day: F-u-c
F-U-C-K! Since AS got me started on all this with his email, I shared the above with him to get his input before posting it here. “That was great,” AS wrote back, “and quite extensive. I believe the origin of…
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What About Mozart and Tiger Woods?
Mozart wrote music at age 5, gave public performances at age 8, and composed some of the world’s most beautiful symphonies before his death at age 35. A close look at his background reveals: * His father…
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Florida's Minimal Restrictions Versus Stricter State Lockdowns
Back from the sunny beaches of Rancho Santana on the Pacific Ocean to my house on the equally sunny beaches of the Atlantic Ocean in Delray Beach, I was only dimly aware that the Delta variant of the…
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China’s Cultural Revolution
To understand how the Chinese economy got where it is today, you need to know a bit about China’s Cultural Revolution and what happened after that. In 1966, 17 years after Mao Zedong established the People’s…
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And About the F Word…
In discussing podcasts, a colleague wrote: ”Oh, Man! I can’t stand listening to a podcast with two old guys throwing the F Word around – like they’re trying to one-up each other with how many times they can…
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