Let's go Brandon

If you are mystified by references to Brandon, here is how "let's go Brandon" became a way to shout an obscenity to President Biden.

 Students in a ‘Hostile Environment’; a public school teacher challenges critical race theory.

What Are the Odds? Even Experts Get Tripped Up by Probabilities. People tend to rely on anecdotal evidence to make decisions, rather than considering the numbers

Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid. In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened.

Can Manchin and Sinema Save All 50 U.S. States? Joe Biden’s massive laws will erode the state powers protected by the Constitution’s 10th Amendment.

Today in History: When Muslims Skinned Christians Alive for Refusing Islam

Follow the Science – Except When it comes to Natural Immunity. How does one achieve immunity? As the CDC explains, there are two ways. Natural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease. Vaccine-induced immunity is acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.

The Police State Comes to America. An army of moms (and dads) have been asserting their parental responsibilities and their constitutional rights by showing up to school board meetings and voicing—sometimes angrily—their contempt and disgust for those school boards and teachers promoting and sanctioning ideas and ideologies opposed by the parents.

New York City will phase out its programs for gifted and talented primary-grade students in the name of “equality,” reports the New York Times. The group of kindergarten students currently enrolled in the special programs will be the last to be offered the accelerated learning courses. The reason? Not enough black and Hispanic students are able to qualify for the program. So rather than offer accelerated learning to anyone who can qualify, the city is catering to the lowest common denominator.

Robocalls. While the FCC often makes headlines for issuing “record” robocall fines, the vast majority of those fines are never collected. A 2019 Wall Street Journal investigation found that the FCC has collected just $6,790 of the $208 million in robocall fines imposed since 2015. Of the $1.5 billion in robocall fines issued by the FTC since 2004, the agency collected just $121 million.

Rodents the Size of St. Bernards Swarm an Exclusive Gated Community. The world’s largest rodents bully pets, roam tony streets and soil pristine lawns, triggering demands for them to be relocated or castrated

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster. The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’

The Varsity Blues Trial Is a Reminder of Our Corrupt Criminal Justice System. Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison.

The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech. The message is clear: if you exercise your First Amendment rights for a cause that those in power have not approved, you will be targeted.

Art Institute of Chicago fires docents because there are too many white women in their ranks. Replacements will be properly inclusive, based on “an income equity-focused lens.”

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, has recently written an essay in which he considers whether human beings have free will and how long the human race will survive. Loeb is a prolific and often quite thoughtful scientist who has a refreshing propensity to think outside the mainstream. However, his recent essay in Scientific American, titled “How Much Time Does Humanity Have Left?”, is well off the mark. I think he profoundly misunderstands human nature and human destiny.

Katie Couric: Ginsburg disparaged activists who kneel during the anthem -- and I cut the quotes from our interview