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“Like facts, juries are stubborn things.”
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Invoking extremes just makes things worse. Government usually creates more problems to solve the problems it already created.
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- Wolf Street
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- Attack the System
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I had a blog, a big ole political blog with all sorts of entries and spanning two blogging platforms. It went through a catastrophic data scramble. Some content was lost. So here are the old directory links. As I find it useful, I'll probably end up rewriting it and putting in the new blog. But there are some mixups.
scrambled legacy links
NeoWayland is a pagan philosopher, libertarian & part-time trouble maker. Keeping vigil, he shares beacons of individual freedom & responsibility while watching for threats to LIBERTY. There's more to life than just black & white.
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The great nudge
“Government, Big Tech and the media are all trying to nudge us into adopting the ‘right’ behaviour.”No Time to Lose
“Bill de Blasio’s last financial plan portends a day of reckoning for Eric Adams.”The north-east has been abandoned
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Last Friday and into the early hours of Saturday morning, Storm Arwen wreaked havoc throughout north-east England. Easily the most severe weather event to hit the UK since Storm Desmond in 2015, 100 miles-per-hour winds uprooted trees, overturned lorries and destroyed power lines. It resulted in the loss of electrical power to over 200,000 homes – including, for a few hours, my own. Three people lost their lives.”Next Step for the Parents’ Movement: Curriculum Transparency
“Parents have a right to know what’s being taught to their children.”DOJ Opens Investigation Into Andrew Cuomo and His Executive Chamber
“The DOJ is already investigating Cuomo over his memoir and policies that led to the deaths of so many elderly people in nursing homes.”Judicial Watch Suing on Behalf of Teacher Claiming She Was Fired for Social Media Posts About Critical Race Theory“Kari MacRae was viciously targeted and unlawfully fired as a teacher because she exercised her First Amendment rights to criticize critical race theory”
Doctors Warn New Medical School Guidance Would Lead to Unqualified Physicians and Unscientific Medicine
“Accreditation guidelines call meritocracy 'malignant,' suggest genetic screening is racist”Senate sinks deeper into quagmire of dysfunction
“The upper chamber's always had a flair for the dramatic. But as Democrats push deadlines to their limits, Republicans have exploited the chance to obstruct.”Joe Biden Adds Another Lie to the List, Remains a Legend in His Own Mind
“This lump of mediocrity has managed to be wrong about essentially every foreign policy issue of the last 50 years, and yet he still pretends he’s some strategic hotshot. Case in point? Today, the president added another lie to the list, claiming he served as a “liaison” during Israel’s Six-Day War. The problem? That’s not a thing that happened.”As U.S. Retailers Struggle Against Smash-and-Grab Flash Mobs, Liberals Blame ‘White Supremacy’
NW adds: We're at the point where victims of Designated Victim Status can no longer be held accountable for their own actions.Views collide as Blinken, Lavrov discuss Ukraine
“Warnings, demands and disagreement pervaded a meeting of top US and Russian diplomats in Stockholm.”Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a potential privacy nightmare
“Next year’s Android smartphones will be watching you”Meghan’s victory is a disaster for press freedom
“We mustn’t let this narcissistic duchess ride roughshod over the free media.”More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions
“Nearly all governments have attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government can claim success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories. ”US Pullout Date Nears, But Iraqis Are Skeptical
“No real withdrawal of troops is expected”Germany imposes coronavirus lockdown for unvaccinated people
“The country’s fourth pandemic wave has slowed but ‘on too high a level,’ the chancellor said.”Austria: Prison for the unvaccinated
“The first details about the planned mandatory vaccination law in Austria are circulating: Heavy fines and imprisonment if necessary.”
Added innumerate to lexicon.
Added Julian factor to lexicon.
Added table stakes to lexicon.
Minor update to racism definition.
Updated polygamy definition in lexicon and added references to polygyny.
Added Ides of Diana to ACT.
Edited pagan entry at lexicon.