China's Demographic Crisis Both the Post and NYT had pieces today on how China is encouraging families to have more babies in order to counter an alleged demographic crisis. The basic story, which has been repeated many times in the U.S., is that China will be seeing a decline in the ratio of workers to retirees since families have had relatively few children over the last four decades. This is supposed to be really bad news, in fact, a...

ERA Failed to Pass Again--Time to Change the Constitution! "Last week, the Senate held a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment — the latest development in a century-long effort to amend the Constitution to explicitly guarantee sex equality. The E.R.A. resolution received 51 (bipartisan) votes but fell short of the 60 votes necessary to advance under the Senate’s current rules. "The fight for the E.R.A. remains critical — with Roe v. Wade now toppled, it is in f...

Men are No Longer Burning Women at the Stake: They're Now Killing Them with Laws Jaci Statton wanted her baby, but the fetus wasn’t developing properly and was dying inside her. If it wasn’t removed from her uterus it might kill her, too. Religious freaks and workplace-insecure men are no longer burning women at the stake for the heresy of having or providing abortions. Instead, they’re using the power of the state to set women up to die often agonizing deaths, all while ...

The New Normal Left - Consent Factory, Inc. So, I went to London to speak to the Left ... no, not "the Left" you're probably thinking of. Not the mask-wearing, Ukrainian-flag-flying Left. Not the pronoun-using, segregationist Left. Not the WEF, WHO, FBI, CIA, DHS, and MI6-loving Left. Not the global-capitalist New Normal Left. The other Left. The old-school Left. The "Covid-denying, conspiracy-theorizing, Putin-loving, far-right extremist Left...

Who are America's most foolish people? Who are America's most foolish people? That question allows for many possible answers. As H.L. Mencken famously said, "No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses…

A High-Stakes Election in the Midwest's "Democracy Desert" [This] "race for control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court could change the course of the entire country": Read about the past, present, and possibilities for the immediate future in that gerrymandered state and beyond, in the context of "the most expensive judicial campaign in American history." The Electoral Integrity Project has rated Wisconsin's district maps at "twenty-three points out of a hundred, the wors...

Kamala Harris: Excellence in Hiding The Constitution provides little specification on the duties of the veep, writes Donna Brazile, ABC contributor and Georgetown University faculty member. She is up to the challenge of taking over in the event Biden is no longer able to govern and has contributed amply in her role, though publicity of this is rarely headlined. 5 

So many people recently 'died suddenly' - What's going on? One needn't be a dedicated follower of sports to have noticed of late the number of young professional athletes, ostensibly at the apex of physical fitness, dying suddenly in practice or in play.  In the 38 years between 1966 and 2004, sudden cardiac death (SCD) occurred in 1101 athletes under the age of 35.  Of those athletes, fifty percent had congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathies and ten percent had early... 14 

A. J. Calderone: Future of school voucher system is questionable - Network For Public Education Legislative leaders espouse the notion that “the money should follow the child,” which under this premise, would mean Ohio taxpayers are responsible for funding three types of school systems, their local public schools, Ohio charter schools and private schools. Such a system creates many questions that Ohio citizens should ponder earnestly. The questions are just a sampling of important considerations in the ... 1 

Project Veritas has broken Pfizer's Gain-of-Function Research Program Wide Open. Corporations must work constantly to keep themselves up with competition, to refine their business model, to remain on the cusp of new developments--sometimes even ahead of them.  In big business, there is precious little time to rest upon one's laurels.  Snoozers lose.   This article contains a transcript of an interview conducted by an undercover journalist who recorded his dialogue with a Director o...

The FAA Has Very Quietly Tacitly Admitted that the EKGs of Pilots Are no Longer Normal After the age of 40, commercial and military pilots undergo EKG testing annually.  EKGs record the electrical signals in the heart to detect problems and monitor cardiac health.  One of the measures, the PR interval, measures the conduction of electricity from upper to lower chambers.  Last fall, the Federal Aviation Administration changed the acceptable PR interval for pilots:     "On Oct...

Social media's effects on teen mental health comes into focus Experts are increasingly warning of a connection between heavy social media use and mental health issues in children — a hot topic now driving major lawsuits against tech giants. Seattle Public Schools' recently filed lawsuit against TikTok, Meta, Snap and others — which accuses the social media giants of contributing to a youth mental health crisis — is one of hundreds of similar cases.

Once Upon a Time the US Taxed the Rich Once upon a time, the United States seriously taxed the nation's rich. Back at the tail-end of that era, in the early 1960s, America's richest faced a 91 percent tax rate on income in the top tax bracket. That top rate had been hovering around 90 percent for the previous two decades. In the 1950s, a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, made no move to knock it down. A little history might just...

Why Voting for Herschel Walker will be Inflationary, with no increase in the Minimum Wage as a Remedy! Without a doubt Herschel Walker will yield to GOP peer pressure to continue inflationary tax cuts, while blocking any minimum wage increase, unchanged for 13 years. Higher corporate profits reportedly account for more than half of today’s price increases. This is no surprise, since Trump’s 2017 tax cuts incentivize the maximization of profits. The 40 percent drop in tax rates, from 35 percent to 21 percen...

A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania The Shapiro and Fetterman victories show there’s more than one way to win as a Democrat. There’s nothing inherently contradictory about the messages that Shapiro and Fetterman—among many other Democrats—used to win their races. In 2022, Democrats across the country talked about defending democracy, defeating extremism, protecting the right to abortion, and building an economy that works for ...