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October 14th, 2019
Trans Seeking to Reverse
By: Sally Lockwood – news.sky.com – October 5, 2019 Charlie Evans, 28, was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years before detransitioning. The number of young people seeking gender transition is at an all-time high but we hear very little, if anything, about those who may come to regret their decision. There is currently no data to reflect the...
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October 14th, 2019
sponge bob
By: Nate Day – foxiness.com – October 12, 2019 SpongeBob’ is a ‘violent,’ ‘racist’ colonizer, says University of Washington professor. “SpongeBob SquarePants,” which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, has millions of fans around the world, but one University of Washington professor is clearly not among them. For a recently published academic journal, the professor, Holly M. Barker, wrote an article “Unsettling SpongeBob...
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October 9th, 2019
Movie Theater
By: Maria Caspani & Jill Serjeant – reuters.com – October 3, 2019 Police in major U.S. cities were on alert on Thursday as “Joker” opened in movie theaters after weeks of publicity surrounding its disturbing portrait of a bullied loner raised fears it might spark violence. “Joker,” an origin story about Batman’s comic-book arch nemesis, stars Joaquin Phoenix in what movie reviewers...
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October 7th, 2019
b&w college classroom backlit
By: Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D. – texaspolicy.com – May 31, 2019 Too many students feel afraid to speak honestly on campus for fear of offending someone, a new national survey of college students says. University censorship regimes are teaching some students not only to live with but to embrace the conformism of thought inculcated through university speech codes, speaker dis-invitations, “safe spaces,” “trigger...
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October 4th, 2019
hong-kong-riot-police
But did she wake up just in time or too late? In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China. For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities...
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September 26th, 2019
Greta Thunberg speech on climate-change
A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column titled, “What margarine can teach us about climate change.” Inspired by a book excerpt in National Geographic, that column summarized just one example … Source: Scaremongering Isn’t Science
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September 26th, 2019
Greta Thunberg speech on climate-change
A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column titled, “What margarine can teach us about climate change.” Inspired by a book excerpt in National Geographic, that column summarized just one example … Source: Scaremongering Isn’t Science
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September 24th, 2019
vaping teen
By: Jayne O’Donnell – usatoday.com –  September 23, 2019 Ricky D’Ambrosio bought his last cannabis oil cartridge last month at a California marijuana dispensary that “felt legitimate, but wasn’t in the best part of town.” About a week after he finished it, the 21-year-old began vomiting so much his mother rushed him to the hospital. He spent 10 days there, four of them in...
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September 23rd, 2019
AOC Speaks at US Capitol
By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – September 10, 2019 Our age loves scientific equations. Here’s one you weren’t taught at college but which affects you as much as the law of gravity: GI – W = E Good Intentions (GI) minus Wisdom (W) leads to Evil (E). You weren’t taught this rule at college because the modern university believes only science...
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September 23rd, 2019
Acid Rain headline 1976
By: Myron Ebell & Steven J. Milloy – cei.org – September 18, 2019 Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science. More than merely...
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