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The legacy of racism in America manifests in many cruel ways. And sometimes the cruelty is replete with irony. Case in point is the racist way the US government treated Blacks for its infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Because this has Blacks now fearing its Covid vaccine, which could save their lives. The Tuskegee Study of… Read more.
No doubt you recall how Donald Trump spent much of the 2016 presidential campaign playing the (liberal) media for useful idiots. This, by getting them to report and comment on Hillary’s hacked e-mails as if they were more incriminating than Nixon’s tapes. As it happened, I spent much of that campaign trying to get my… Read more.
On Sunday, California became the first state to (re)issue sweeping stay-at-home and lockdown orders. This, in a Groundhog-Day effort to fight the second wave of Covid-19, which is breaking out across the country. The vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay area and a large swath of the Central Valley are… Read more.
They would support him even if he shot someone to death on 5th Avenue in broad daylight. But even he could not have imagined they’d turn out to be so stupid, they would Risk their own lives to attend his maskless rallies in the midst of this Covid pandemic; Refuse to take a Covid vaccine… Read more.
Much like winning an Oscar, winning a Grammy is more the result of crass political campaigning (or music-industry cronyism) than any assessment of artistic achievement. Only this explains the outrageous “snubs” that litter Grammy history, notably in 1984, when The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” bested Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and “Billie Jean”; 1985, when… Read more.
Never forget who the Pilgrims thanked, and then slaughtered – complete with a “Europe virus.” Indeed, as a counterfactual, one could easily imagine Pilgrims prevailing upon Native Americans back then to see wearing masks as not only unwelcoming but unnecessary. And, with the good-natured Natives obliging, the rest became history. Now this: COVID-19 data on… Read more.
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Christie, the commentator Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, is a regular commentator on the top-rated Sunday talk show This Week. On today’s episode, he and fellow commentators discussed Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. Here’s the indignant way Christie chimed in: The conduct of the president’s… Read more.
Everyone in New York has known for decades that Trump was a lazy, dumb, rich kid who squandered the hundreds of millions he inherited, and then proved so inept as a businessman that he managed the arguably impossible feat of bankrupting a casino … five times. ‘The house always wins’ was the motto that had… Read more.
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