A satirical comedy opens our eyes to ourselves and our society, and in laughing at our foibles, foolishness, and failures, we will also see the serious side, the dangerous implications of our idiocy. In Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, the character Betty Higden compliments her child Sloppy who reads the newspaper to her. She says, […]
CLIMATE scientists at the time were unanimous – by the 1970s it was crystal clear that the planet had been cooling for three decades. This fact led to various ice age scares in the media, but on a more serious level the authorities were very concerned about a return to the Little Ice Age conditions […]
If Elon Musk were a recluse who did nothing but build SpaceX, he would still be the most important figure of the 21st century. That isn’t hyperbole on my part. I truly believe it. I spend much of my time focusing on what is going wrong in our society, and there is far too much […]
Should a child be allowed to medically alter their body if she decides one day that she wants to be a boy? According to the author of a new piece in New York Magazine, the answer is “Yes, absolutely.” And if she wants to do it several times or ruin her body, the answer is […]
Hillary Clinton is telling voters that sure, Joe Biden is old, but let’s just accept that fact and move on. She wants voters to focus on beating Donald Trump in November. Hillary is 76 years old. She turns 77 later this year, the same age as her old friend Donald Trump. Joe’s age and dementia […]
Today I came across this Jack Shafer column at Politico which argues, pretty convincingly, that there is really only one issue that matters to most people during the State of the Union speech. It isn’t Gaza or Ukraine or immigration or whatever laundry list of promises the White House has come up with for a […]
You can tell we’ve turned a corner when even Saturday Night Live is willing to take a shot at the ways in which Democrats are trying to protect President Biden from questions about his age and activity level. The gag here is not Biden himself but the comical ways in which those around him keep […]
The parade of people who are openly discussing the physical and mental decline of the nation’s oldest-ever president continues to grow. And those voices are not all coming from the Fox News Channel or other conservative outlets. This week their ranks were joined by two former aides to President Barack Obama who worked directly with […]
Ezra Klein’s recent call for President Biden to drop out of the election because of his age is still resonating throughout the media sphere. Inevitably these things circulate on the left and on the right but outlets on the left tend to reflexively dismiss any analysis or commentary coming from the right as bad faith. […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] – Yesterday, in the Tennessee House Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee a bill seeking to add an explicit, standing provision to the Age Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 that would give parents the ability to file claims to enforce the Act was placed behind the budget. […]
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