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Chutzpah: ADL Wants A Federal Bailout

When I think of “essential” workers in America, the smear merchants of the Anti-Defamation League are at the bottom of the barrel. For decades, they’ve demonized conservatives and Christians as agents of “hate” and treated our very existence as incitements to violence. The ADL’s manufactured outrage machine has broadened its target list to anyone remotely critical of Israel for any reason, President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, “America First” college students, innocuous hand gestures, cartoon frogs and anyone who dares to think or write that ...

Going Viral: Publicizing This Pandemic Gets Us Nowhere

By now the tropes have become almost typical. Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, drumming up irrational fears in the media, and causing an economic meltdown, all in hopes of bringing down the president. It has even been floated that climate change activists are actively hyping the spread of the coronavirus because they believe that a decline in manufacturing will reverse climate change. For example, the air quality in Wuhan, a major Chinese manufacturing center where the COVID-19 outbreak first occurred, allegedly improved by over 20% during the slowdown caused by the virus. ...

The Good News Is We Are Going To Get Through This

Corona virus is the biggest story in the world. We, in the United States, are likely going to have a hard time in the near future, as shut-downs and restrictions strangle the economy. We, however, are starting off from a fairly high level of economic prosperity. Many other nations are not so fortunate. The hardships that many people in less-developed countries face will be magnified if food production and distribution is significantly disrupted. With that said, we and they are going to get through this thing, not necessarily unscathed, but through it just the same. We will look back at ...

Staying Both Busy And Healthy

I was going to outline 50 neat things to do while you’re all sequestered in your homes, but it doesn’t feel fitting somehow. While at first the virus seemed like a great way to get to know your family again and tackle spring cleaning projects, I think the excitement of endless free time has worn off, and I’m sensing a bit of despair in the people I talk to and in the news headlines. Americans are extroverts by nature. Our society rewards extroversion. In fact, we systematically build and encourage extroverts over all the other personality types. My brother is an extreme ...

Sheltering In Place With Kids

SOS from the front lines of Coronavirus Isolation with kids: 00:01:00 The schools have been closed. The store shelves are empty. We've been shopping. We've been preparing for this. We are fine. We are safe. We are healthy. This is just an extended vacation — an inside, isolated staycation. I vow not to leave the house for at least a week. 00:01:20 My throat feels itchy. It's probably nothing. 00:01:21 I look up symptoms on WebMD. Death is imminent — but not from COVID-19. Apparently, I have cancer and/or a brain tumor and/or Lyme disease and/or am having a stroke and/or am ...

Life With A Troublesome Cat

Small Black Furry sits next to me. “You continue to write about that annoying dog. When do I get a column? You know,” she sniffs, “when you aren’t looking” (oh, but I was!) “dog barks at me and, yes, even chases me. Oh, well, I do run and mostly hiss but she couldn’t catch me in a month of Sundays.” I sigh for I know a column is indeed overdue but, dear Gloria, what’s to be said? Coming up on the end of five years together, I don’t think either of us has changed much. All right, agreed, you haven’t bitten me since . . . well, it’s been a long time since ...