Tag: Politics
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Chicago & Illinois wasted $66 million for unused McCormick Place temp hospital
It doesn’t matter if the temporary hospital was needed or not. Let’s give the government the benefit of the doubt that they were actually worried the hospital system in Chicago would be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Let’s say they actually needed this facility that was capable of housing 2,750 patients. Instead of choosing a contractor…
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New York Times writer Bari Weiss resigns with a scathing resignation letter
Wow. We all knew it was bad at places like the New York Times but this resignation letter written by one of their opinion writers, Bari Weiss, is a barn burner of a letter. She lets loose on the staff at the Times and describes such a hostile work environment that goes unchecked by the…
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Uncle Tom, a must watch movie
If you care at all about freedom in the United States and the division being sowed between black and white people today, especially today, you need to watch Uncle Tom. This movie, produced by Larry Elder, is extremely important because it shows that the black community is not a single ideological voting block. It shows…
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Millennials may be the snake that eats its own tail
Millennials don’t know what they are doing. They are killing the United States and classical liberalism. I’m not talking about “liberals” like members of the Democratic Party I’m talking about classical liberalism where ideas matter. There is no freedom of thought in their ranks. You either tow the line or you are ostracized and pushed…
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Inconvenient statistics on crime, policing, and the black community
When emotion is brought into public policy we can count on bad things happening. Looting and rioting are doing damage to the argument for the need to reform policing. Is it bringing attention to it? Yes. But, not the kind of attention that is needed. In the cold world of statistics we have these facts:…