Last July, PBS (and others) reported that the US was experiencing a maternal health crisis. Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native […]
Photo: Margie Quin, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, photographed on June 2, 2023. Photo Credit: John Partipilo By Anita Wadhwani [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – The Tennessee Court of Appeals has set aside a lower court’s decision that has kept records related to a Shelby County child’s death from being released to […]
LAST week (February 20) the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published new estimates of excess deaths in the UK based on a revised methodology. The figures were greeted with some scepticism. Academics from the University of Oxford immediately warned that the new modelling revealed a major drop in expected deaths in 2020, ‘making it appear that far […]
TRYING to enter a Boots the other afternoon I had to wait to be buzzed in. According to a sign on the door this was because of a recent spate of aggressive behaviour towards its employees: as such, after 5pm, entry into the shop was controlled. This was not, may I add, in some inner-city […]
TO THE dismay of climate sceptics the world over, the long-awaited defamation lawsuit between climate scientist Michael Mann and conservative writer Mark Steyn ended last week with the jury in Washington DC finding against Steyn and co-defendant Rand Simberg and awarding more than $1million to Mann. It was a case that had enormous ramifications. As Chris Morrison […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – A bill to authorize the death penalty as punishment for child rapists in Tennessee was placed “behind the budget” during a meeting of the House Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee this week. On February 7th, subcommittee members considered House Bill 1663 (HB1663), sponsored by Rep. […]
Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – The Tennessee District Attorneys Conference has attempted to interject itself in a fight over who has the authority to represent the state in post-conviction review of capital cases in the state. The conference filed a Feb. 1 brief supporting Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy […]
The short answer is not really unless you tweak the numbers for both gun violence and car accidents. This is something I wrote about last April. It has become commonplace for the White House and left wing commentators to claim that gun violence is the number one cause of death for children. But as I […]
IN A Spectator article headed ‘Assisted dying is inevitable’, Matthew Parris says he is one of those ‘who believe that the terminally ill for whom life has become unbearable should have the right to command its end’, although ‘naturally’ this campaign faces strong opposition. ‘Much of it comes from religious people who often hide their personal investment in […]
Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – A bill that would give the courts the authority to consider the death penalty for child rapists passed the House Criminal Justice Committee yesterday afternoon by a voice vote and now heads to the Government Operations Committee. The four Democrats on the committee, Representatives Ronnie […]
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