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The return of this scourge has been driven by one factor in particular: misinformation, spread by vaccine critics, that scares parents into not immunizing their children. Along with rumors that vaccines cause autism or that the trace amounts of mercury and aluminum in them are dangerous — falsehoods that were long ago debunked — have… Read more.
President Trump said Friday that the United States did not pay any money to North Korea, which had issued a $2 million bill for the hospice care of American Otto Warmbier, the comatose University of Virginia student sent home from Pyongyang in 2017. … Warmbier, who was 21, fell into a coma for unknown reasons… Read more.
The amazing clip shows the primate holding a smartphone in one hand and clicking on the screen with another. … When he gets bored, he goes back and clicks on a video of men playing with a snake. The ape seems to get disinterested quicker this time and soon clicks on another video of a… Read more.
Is to stop the dumping of waste in the Caribbean Sea. I advocate a pragmatic and parochial strategy for combating climate change. The adage “clean up your own back yard…” pretty much sums it up. Pursuant to this strategy, I have always championed conservation and anti-pollution measures. In doing so, I have eschewed the handwringing… Read more.
Donald Trump proved that any buffoon can get elected leader of any country. Therefore, if you’re still looking for the results of democratic elections to make normative sense, the joke’s on you. This is why, even though laughable, the results of Sunday’s presidential election in Ukraine evoked more affirmation than consternation. Ukraine entered uncharted political… Read more.
Former US Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) conceived this day of awareness in the late 1960s as an enlightened response to carefree pollution all over America. The country celebrated its first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The environmental practices it inaugurated have become routine and universal, so much so that the symbolic replenishing of Earth’s natural… Read more.
I noted in my March 15 commentary that the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand was bound to have a galvanizing effect on Muslim jihadists. Sure enough: As worshipers gathered on Sunday at Roman Catholic churches across Sri Lanka to celebrate Easter Mass, the culmination of Holy Week, a wave of explosions rocked the congregations.… Read more.
For the past 30 years, Mr. Lamb has hosted a Sunday night program, interviewing everyone from Richard Nixon to the leftist historian Howard Zinn. Mr. Lamb says he hasn’t missed a week since 1989. That streak will end May 19, with a finale featuring the historian David McCullough. (Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2019) I… Read more.
Frankly, nothing in Mueller’s 448-page report should surprise anyone who knows anything about Trump’s presidency. I skimmed enough to know that he merely substantiated what the mainstream media had been reporting, and some of us had been asserting, for years. I finally delineated my assertions in “Mueller Report: No Collusion Conclusion. But Our Long National… Read more.
Sudanese protesters have been forced to block an apparent attempt to break up their sit-in outside the defence ministry in Khartoum, where demonstrators have been pushing for a quick transition to civilian rule after Omar al-Bashir was ousted as president. On Thursday, Sudan’s army announced it had removed and detained Bashir after three decades in… Read more.
