Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When I read the allegation that an ICE physician was doing unusual numbers of hysterectomies, my mind when to dark places. I neither believe nor disbelieve this story reported at Fox New: A nurse at a Georgia prison sounded the alarm about the number of hysterectomies performed on migrant women detained by Immigration and
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Another Bookworm Beat looking at the daily news, including the daily propaganda from former news outlets, all of which is endlessly fascinating It’s not Trump’s foibles, but the media’s failures, that account for his low numbers. NeverTrumpers, looking at the chasm between Trump’s out-sized positive accomplishments in areas that matter
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This Bookworm Beat is about more than the slo-mo Honduran invasion, but that figures largely here, hence the post’s title. A round-up of ideas and information about the Honduran invasion. When thousands of military age men threaten to storm your border, there’s only one proper description: “an invasion.” All that
Continue readingI have a couple of high school friends on Facebook who grew up to become teachers. They are relentless about posting daily materials highlighting the American teacher’s martyrdom. If you relied on these posters alone, you’d think that being a teacher is the hardest job, with the lowest salary, in
Continue readingBruce Kesler highlights the largest ever survey of doctors on the subject of Obamacare — and they don’t like it. I can already hear the pro-Obamacare people saying, “Well, they don’t like it because it’s going to be more efficient and therefore cuts into their profits.” Think about that for
Continue readingWhen we met the Blues, one of the people we met was the team’s flight surgeon, who struck me as a lovely young woman: warm, dedicated and intelligent. I’m sure Neptunus Lex wasn’t talking about her when he wrote this hysterically funny post a few years ago. (And no, I
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