Minimal Thinking Kills: California’s Minimum Wage Continues to Destroy Restaurants
Would you rather have some jobs available at $12 an hour or no jobs available at $20 an hour? The answer may vary depending on whether you’re a business...
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Nuclear War: The Risk Has Perhaps NEVER Been Greater, Harvard Expert Says
As a child of the ’70s and ’80s, I, along with my age mates, remember Cold War nuclear annihilation fears well. Oh, I was born after “duck and cover”...
Microaggressions: Will Oregon Revoke Doctors’ Licenses for Telling Non-whites to Lose Weight?
The Oregon Medical Board is poised to make physicians’ commission of “microaggressions” possible grounds for medical license revocation. ...
Louisiana, Law, and Lies: Is Displaying the Ten Commandments in Classrooms Constitutional?
“The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount,” said a famed American figure. “The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from...
Cultural Appropriation: Is THIS Why Some People Think Cleopatra Was Black?
We hear indignant insistence that Egypt’s most famous Greek queen, Cleopatra, was black. But how did the idea originate? ...
CNN: Calling U.S. a “Republic” Is “an Attack on Democracy”
A CNN reporter claimed Trump supporters' observation that the United States is a “republic” is “an attack on democracy.” ...
Poll: MOST Black Americans Believe in Anti-American Racial Conspiracy Theories
Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back. ...
Billionaire Finally Realizes 7-year-old Tale About Trump Is a Lie
Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about...
Heard About the European “Far Right”? How About Unicorns?
The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would...
White Girl Paid a Lot: Caitlin Clark’s Woes in Racialized America
Caitlin Clark would assuredly just like to play basketball. Unfortunately for the WNBA standout, however, focus on the game has been subordinated to racial games in an America in...
Seriously? L.A. Removes “Homophobic” “No U-turn” Signs
Los Angeles has removed “homophobic” “no u-turn” signs during Pride Month as a concession to the gay community. ...
WaPo Warning: If Trump Wins, We’ll No Longer Have the “Experts” in Charge
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory,” wrote the late William F. Buckley in 1961, “than by the Harvard University faculty.” It...
Green-nightmare Discovery: Fracking Wastewater Contains Crucial “Net-zero-tech” Metal
What happens when greentopian dogma meets discovery? We’re about to learn this with a finding that could send depressed environmentalists running for the lithium — and away from it....
Gotcha? Secret Alito Tapes Make the Justice Look Good, the Media Bad
Projection is a fascinating phenomenon. Certain people, ascribing to others the darkness pervading their own souls, are just certain that everyone is hiding skeletons and some secret life —...
Biden’s Brazen Lies Called “Autobiographical Embellishments” by NY Times
New York Times fact-checker Linda Qiu calls President Biden's lies about his life "autobiographical embellishments." ...