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December 14th, 2020
In April, the deadliest month of the pandemic, an elderly New Yorker in assisted living couldn’t grasp why she was suddenly forbidden to see her friends. In May, two sisters in Michigan, one Republican and the other a Democrat, watched their aged parents suffer from covid-19 and wondered why so many people refused to cover their faces against the virus.
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December 10th, 2020
2020 may be nearly over, but the COVID-19 pandemic is clearly not. In recent weeks, the U.S. has seen quite a spike in positive cases. Of course, increased testing capacity always results in a spike of recorded cases. But the current spike we’re seeing is a cause for concern. As Fox News reported at the beginning of December, “More than...
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December 9th, 2020
Is Santa Claus real? Why do we celebrate Christmas on December 25? Where was Jesus born? Christ before Christmas Mary: The mother of Jesus and “the servant of the Lord” Joseph: The earthly father of Jesus and the “forgotten man of Christmas” How many wise men were there? And when did the magi visit Jesus?… Source: What does the Bible...
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December 7th, 2020
The United States is getting closer to a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic. But not everyone is on board with the idea of taking the inoculation. Black Americans are the least enthusiastic over a coronavirus vaccine. In fact, they are quite leery about the idea of accepting a vaccine until they feel it is safe. Source: Black Folks Aren’t Too...
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December 4th, 2020
The war on red meat, spearheaded by vegetarians (and then vegans) has been going on for years. More recently, the climate warriors have joined in. A decade or so ago, the idea that climate change might have been used as a justification for either banishing meat from the table — or repricing it so that it was treated as an...
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December 4th, 2020
President Trump’s lawyers shared dramatic video footage during a hearing Thursday at the Georgia legislature that they say depicts mysterious briefcases full of ballots being counted in the state after most election workers had been sent home for the night. Source: Trump legal team: Georgia video footage depicts poll workers with ‘suitcases filled with ballots’ | Just The News
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December 3rd, 2020
Tucker Carlson on President-elect Joe Biden picking “certain jobs for certain identities” in his presentations of his administration picks. Carlson said if you really want to flatten the social structure, you’d want a return to meritocracy. Source: Tucker Carlson: Certain Jobs For Certain Identities, How Is This Better Than Jim Crow? | Video | RealClearPolitics
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December 3rd, 2020
Many of us will give money to charity this month. Americans give more than any other people in the world. Good for us. 56 years ago, because American charities hadn’t ended poverty, Source: Better Than Charity
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December 1st, 2020
We’ve been bringing you a lot of the coverage of the election integrity hearings that are being held. Some of the testimony has been striking and it’s certainly had an affect on the people who’ve heard the hearings and on the legislators involved. We reported how Republicans in both Arizona and Pennsylvania have made moves to try to do something...
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November 30th, 2020
“You don’t just have a partner in the White House,” former Vice President Joe Biden told the National Education Association as he campaigned for the White House in July, “you’ll have an NEA member in the White House.” Source: Remote Learning in Public Schools Is Widening the Achievement Gap | RealClearPolitics
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