Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas announced Tuesday that the state would be ending its mask mandate and allowing businesses to reopen at 100% capacity. Chris Pandolfo reports at The Blaze: Texas is fully reopening and the statewide mask mandate will be rescinded this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Tuesday. “Effective next Wednesday, all businesses […]
Archives for March 2021
COVID-Transporting Cruise Ship Sea Monsters Could Terrorize Key West Citizens
Gwen Filosa writes in Yahoo! News: In November, Key West voters changed how the island will deal with the cruise ship industry. They capped the number of passengers that can disembark each day to 1,500, limited mooring to ships with a capacity of 1,300, and gave docking priorities to cruise lines with the best health and […]
“God Bless America”
In his annual letter to shareholders, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett shared a uniquely American story. In 1915, NFM’s founder, Rose Blumkin, “aka Mrs. B,” arrived in Seattle, WA. Even though Mrs. B could neither speak nor write English, by 1936, she had saved $2,500, with which she started a furniture store. Over the weekend Mr. Buffett […]
Are You Working with Someone Who Understands Your Struggles?
When the stock market can jump in a day as much as what historically would take a third of the year, what does that mean? When you think about how to Survive and Thrive in times like these, you quickly realize it’s a game of tradeoffs. When Texas windmills stop working, doesn’t that embolden oil-rich […]
Cancel Clarence Thomas? Amazon Wading Deep into the Culture War
With the decision to remove Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words from its streaming service, Amazon is wading deep into the culture war. Censoring content focused on a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice pushes a new boundary for the retail company. Tristan Justice writes at The Federalist: Amazon stripped a documentary on […]
Trump’s Political Demise Was Greatly Exaggerated
Judging by his speech at CPAC, and the audience’s reaction to it, Donald Trump has not gone away. Nick Allen reports in The Telegraph that Donald Trump’s political demise was greatly exaggerated. He writes: In a straw poll of conservative activists at CPAC, Mr Trump won 55 per cent of the vote, way ahead of […]
What’s Responsible for the Global Decline in COVID Deaths?
The editors at Off-Guardian wonder what’s responsible for the global decline in COVID deaths. They write (abridged): The assumption most people would make, and would be encouraged to make by the talking heads and media experts, is that the various “vaccines” have taken effect and stopped the spread of the “virus”. Is this the case? […]
The Assault on “Our Democracy”
Roger Kimball supports an unimpeded and totally bipartisan inquiry into the 6 January melee at the Capitol. In Spectator.US, Mr. Kimball argues, however, that there is no valid analogy between the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States by Muslim fanatics and the low level riot at the Capitol. Nancy Pelosi’s call for a ‘9/11-style inquiry’ […]
Gov. Noem’s South Dakota Success a Stark Contrast to Gov. Cuomo’s New York Failures
Despite incurring a beating in the media for her actions, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota chose to take her state’s COVID response in a different direction than most, remaining as open as possible. The governor worked hard to maintain the freedom of South Dakotans. In her CPAC speech this past weekend, Noem explained that […]
General Gives Disturbing Speech on the Future of U.S.-Russian Relations
Paul Craig Roberts warns in LewRockwell.com of the harsh rhetoric being employed by General Tod. D. Wolters toward U.S.-Russian relations. He writes (abridged): On February 24, General Tod D. Wolters, who leads the US European Command, gave a speech that should disturb everyone on earth. There are a number of reasons we should be disturbed. […]