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Free will exists but only in those sunny and simple places where it is all comprehensible. It cannot exist in the dark corners of your life, when forces you barely sense compel you, because you are human and therefore live with the burdens that you barely remember. Free will requires awareness, and all humans live Read More …
In an historic first, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated eight (8) Swedish Match General Snus products as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. Specifically: FDA Authorizes Company to State that Use of General Snus Instead of Cigarettes Puts Users at a Lower Risk of Mouth Cancer, Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, Stroke, Read More …
Meant more as a permanent bookmark for me more than anything else. I think this little primer on the existential philosophy of Albert Camus sums up my reflections on life. We struggle – indeed we are genetically driven – to search for meaning in a meaninglessness world, and that search is by its very nature Read More …
From Kerry Picket over at the Washington Examiner: Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures likely to pass in Virginia should face prosecution and even threats of the National Guard. Oh please, oh please, oh please! Bring it dudes. If these tone-deaf, Constitution-raping dullards actually go forward Read More …
During a recent dinner with some Canadian acquaintances, our hostess went on a mini-rant about how “terrible” it was for American women to have children because of our “dreadful” healthcare system. (Interestingly, this came on the heels of our complaints about how Canadian healthcare had treated my father-in-law.) According to all of the other cat-ladies Read More …
“I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.” American expat, James Schmitz, was living in the U.K. In this article, he describes how the wait for treatment and medicine from the NHS caused him to leave school in London to return to the United States in a bid to save his Read More …
I sat in a meeting with a female supervisor a couple of days ago where she lamented that all of the idiocy of the administration that she endures is the result of “misogynistic” males. She then proceeded to go on a rant about who wants to listen to/respect “old white guys” (i.e., Caucasian, middle aged Read More …
In 2017 the province of Ontario passed legislation entitled: “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID). The ostensible purpose of MAID is to assist terminally ill and suffering patients with euthanasia services. MAID can be administered by a doctor or a nurse practitioner. While it is sensible to enshrine protections into such a law to prevent abuse/misuse, Read More …
I expect this to be the first in series of posts on the nightmare world of Canadian healthcare. Americans – the general public, politicians and media elites alike – generally seem to believe that the Canadian socialized medical system is some sort of mythical Santa Claus where the care is good, the prices are low, Read More …
China stands accused of incarcerating millions of ethnic Uighurs in “reeducation” (concentration) camps. According to those few who have escaped, inmates are subjected to gang rape, grotesque forms of torture, summary execution, and bizarre medical experiments. Meanwhile, globalist money interests in the West continue to wring their hands over trade deals. Others in the Progressive Read More …