August 10, 2021                                             

fromCreators: Hate speech bans are unconstitutional in the United States, whose founders had the wisdom to recognize that giving government the authority to censor its citizens is more dangerous than allowing bigots to spew bile in a marketplace of ideas where reasonable people can refute and rebuke them.

fromTheHill: Biden acknowledged the obvious: any new order to extend the moratorium would be unconstitutional. Yet, he added that he was able to find “several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”


fromTownhall: Employers consistently report that new hires fare poorly in writing and critical thinking — essentially, two sides of the same coin. The shift began in the 1980s, as a new form of literary criticism knows as “deconstructionism” caught on in English departments across the country.

fromNationalReview: Two new independent polls on California’s September 14 recall election have a startling explanation for why Governor Gavin Newsom is in trouble. His support among minority communities is crumbling as issues such as crime, COVID restrictions, and a huge unemployment-benefits scandal dominate the race.

fromReason: The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go away.

August 9, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. 

fromReason: They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
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fromEpochTimes: Dr. Kobi Haviv, medical director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem said that “85 to 90 percent of the hospitalizations are in fully vaccinated people,” and “95 percent of the severe patients are vaccinated.”

fromQuillette: Truth matters. Words matter. What is objectively the case matters. And insofar as our words and concepts can be about the objective world at all, then the shared set of words and meanings that we collectively use and are permitted to use to describe, navigate, and refer to that objective world matters.

fromAxios: The number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in favor of a foreign country hit an all-time high in 2020: 6,707, a 237% increase over 2019.

fromBabylonBee: Blacks tend to be vaccinated at much lower rate than whites. Who can blame them for being wary of government 'experiments'? 

August 8, 2021                                             

fromFoxNews: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again.

fromCharlesHughesSmith: Risk cannot be extinguished, it can only be transferred. Crony capitalism has transmogrified into predatory capitalism as government, finance and the corporatocracy have allied into a seamless (and seamlessly corrupt) elite class that has offloaded systemic risk onto the unprotected class.

fromReason: Small-scale drug possession is now a $100 infraction that can be dismissed with a call to a drug abuse assessment hotline.

fromZeroHedge: Pointing out that the majority of black people in the United States have not yet had a COVID vaccine, Dr. Drew asserted that vaccine passports which ban the unvaccinated from venues like bars and restaurants are a new form of “segregation.”

fromAlexBerenson/Substack: That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events.

fromTheAtlantic: The state GOP’s comeback runs through Latino communities.

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