While it’s always wise to be vigilant about our freedoms, it’s also important to take a clear-eyed view of the situation on the ground.When authorities use harsh lockdown enforcement tactics, it makes news, but perhaps the stunning feature of the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic is how rarely it happens. While it’s always wise to be vigilant about our freedoms, it’s also important to take a clear-eyed view of the situation on the ground.Patriot Post partner , Stephen Green, and Scott Ott discuss.Start a conversation using these share links:Start a conversation using these share links:“[A]...…While it’s always wise to be vigilant about our freedoms, it’s also important to take a clear-eyed view of the situation on the ground.When authorities use harsh lockdown enforcement tactics, it makes news, but perhaps the stunning feature of the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic is how rarely it happens. While it’s always wise to be vigilant about our freedoms, it’s also important to take a clear-eyed view of the situation on the ground.Patriot Post partner , Stephen Green, and Scott Ott discuss.Start a conversation using these share links:Start a conversation using these share links:“[A]...WW…

Doing a rain dance to bring rain is quantum mechanics compared to the Times’ cause-and-effect theory about “The Pandemic” inciting the post-George Floyd violence.Ancient primitives — or as we now call them, “Indigenous people whose land we stole” — believed in talismans, voodoo, rain dances and other versions of “A preceded B, so A caused B.” Today, we consider such reasoning classic fallacy. Except at The New York Times.First, you need to understand that the Times is no longer a newspaper, but more of a shaman. The paper used to report news. Anyone reading it for information...…Doing a rain dance to bring rain is quantum mechanics compared to the Times’ cause-and-effect theory about “The Pandemic” inciting the post-George Floyd violence.Ancient primitives — or as we now call them, “Indigenous people whose land we stole” — believed in talismans, voodoo, rain dances and other versions of “A preceded B, so A caused B.” Today, we consider such reasoning classic fallacy. Except at The New York Times.First, you need to understand that the Times is no longer a newspaper, but more of a shaman. The paper used to report news. Anyone reading it for information...WW…

Inconvenient data on temperatures over much of the last decade is dismissed by Leftmedia outlets beholden to the climate alarmist agenda.The politically orthodox position on climate change enforced by environmental activists is that warming is primarily man-caused and continually getting worse. Furthermore, the human activity that supposedly not only contributes to but drives global warming is closely associated with free-market capitalism. Capitalism, we are told, is responsible for creating, establishing, and then driving the industrial revolution, and the energy needed to drive this...…Inconvenient data on temperatures over much of the last decade is dismissed by Leftmedia outlets beholden to the climate alarmist agenda.The politically orthodox position on climate change enforced by environmental activists is that warming is primarily man-caused and continually getting worse. Furthermore, the human activity that supposedly not only contributes to but drives global warming is closely associated with free-market capitalism. Capitalism, we are told, is responsible for creating, establishing, and then driving the industrial revolution, and the energy needed to drive this...WW…

“We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”The one promise that President Joe Biden has faithfully kept is his pledge to “close down” fossil fuels. We get two-thirds of our energy in America from fossil fuels, and almost one-third of our power comes from coal. That’s quadruple the amount of energy we get from wind and solar, which are niche forms of energy.But Biden doesn’t see it that way. He recently reiterated his pledge to end coal production altogether.“No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it,” Biden said on Nov....…“We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”The one promise that President Joe Biden has faithfully kept is his pledge to “close down” fossil fuels. We get two-thirds of our energy in America from fossil fuels, and almost one-third of our power comes from coal. That’s quadruple the amount of energy we get from wind and solar, which are niche forms of energy.But Biden doesn’t see it that way. He recently reiterated his pledge to end coal production altogether.“No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it,” Biden said on Nov....WW…

Smugness, deception, outright lies, and all manner of anti-scientific behavior are Anthony Fauci’s ultimate legacy.Pretty soon, it seems to us, a lot of rats are going to be fleeing the Bad Ship Fauci. We say this because yesterday on Capitol Hill we heard some devastating testimony from Anthony Fauci’s former colleague, Dr. Robert Redfield. Redfield, the former CDC director, told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that he was intentionally excluded from early conference calls about the origins of COVID-19.Why? “Because,” he says, “it was told to me that [Fauci and...…Smugness, deception, outright lies, and all manner of anti-scientific behavior are Anthony Fauci’s ultimate legacy.Pretty soon, it seems to us, a lot of rats are going to be fleeing the Bad Ship Fauci. We say this because yesterday on Capitol Hill we heard some devastating testimony from Anthony Fauci’s former colleague, Dr. Robert Redfield. Redfield, the former CDC director, told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that he was intentionally excluded from early conference calls about the origins of COVID-19.Why? “Because,” he says, “it was told to me that [Fauci and...WW…

First it was our gas stoves; now the Biden administration is setting its sights on our laundry rooms. Not long after threatening the existence of the gas stove as a “hidden hazard” in the kitchen, the Biden administration is looking to make doing the laundry more expensive and time-consuming. It’s all in order to “confront the global climate crisis.” Manufacturers of these appliances had a brief victory with relaxed standards for certain machines under the Trump administration. It was a rollback the Natural Resources Defense Council called “ridiculous,” claiming the Trump decision was...…First it was our gas stoves; now the Biden administration is setting its sights on our laundry rooms. Not long after threatening the existence of the gas stove as a “hidden hazard” in the kitchen, the Biden administration is looking to make doing the laundry more expensive and time-consuming. It’s all in order to “confront the global climate crisis.” Manufacturers of these appliances had a brief victory with relaxed standards for certain machines under the Trump administration. It was a rollback the Natural Resources Defense Council called “ridiculous,” claiming the Trump decision was...WW…

Most of us learned the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence in school. Where did these revolutionary ideas come from?Most of us learned the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence in school: that “all men are created equal,” “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”; that government’s job is “to secure these rights.” This was a radical departure from the way things had always been. Where did these revolutionary ideas come from? Ben Shapiro explains in this illuminating video.Start a conversation using these share links:Start a conversation using these share...…Most of us learned the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence in school. Where did these revolutionary ideas come from?Most of us learned the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence in school: that “all men are created equal,” “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”; that government’s job is “to secure these rights.” This was a radical departure from the way things had always been. Where did these revolutionary ideas come from? Ben Shapiro explains in this illuminating video.Start a conversation using these share links:Start a conversation using these share...WW…

Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition. All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition.All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.As has been established across decades of civil...…Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition. All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition.All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided.As has been established across decades of civil...WW…

Twitter and Facebook sprung into action to censor the news that a BLM founder has been on a home-buying spree.Black Lives Matter is a business, and business is good.It’s hard to come to any other conclusion regarding the organization that, the New York Post, claims to have taken in a cool $90 million in 2020.Not a bad haul for BLM’s three self-proclaimed Marxist founders. But we wonder: Where’s all that money going? Because it to be going to Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, the drug money handler who was killed in her apartment in March 2020 during a gunfight between her...…Twitter and Facebook sprung into action to censor the news that a BLM founder has been on a home-buying spree.Black Lives Matter is a business, and business is good.It’s hard to come to any other conclusion regarding the organization that, the New York Post, claims to have taken in a cool $90 million in 2020.Not a bad haul for BLM’s three self-proclaimed Marxist founders. But we wonder: Where’s all that money going? Because it to be going to Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, the drug money handler who was killed in her apartment in March 2020 during a gunfight between her...WW…

By Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale CollegeFirst a report about the College. Hillsdale’s campus is quiet, which it ought not to be, but also well. Our students were away for spring break when the coronavirus hit. We spent the week absorbing the news and making plans to bring them back, it being our job to have college. We found that we could not. Much of what I am writing here is shaped by this discovery: we did not have and could not get the tools and knowledge to do our work. And soon enough we were forbidden to do it by general fiat.Spirits are good here, nonetheless. There have been...…By Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale CollegeFirst a report about the College. Hillsdale’s campus is quiet, which it ought not to be, but also well. Our students were away for spring break when the coronavirus hit. We spent the week absorbing the news and making plans to bring them back, it being our job to have college. We found that we could not. Much of what I am writing here is shaped by this discovery: we did not have and could not get the tools and knowledge to do our work. And soon enough we were forbidden to do it by general fiat.Spirits are good here, nonetheless. There have been...WW…