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American Conservative
Not Your Grandfather’s Children’s Hospital
The institutions that once saved young children are now destroying them.
Sadly, Colorado Children’s Hospital, as it is now known, is not the hospital that joined with Boston Children’s Hospital in saving hundreds of thousands of PDA babies each year, one of whom was my older son whose surgery three decades after mine seemed effortless. Alas, today both hospitals offer so-called gender-affirming care that includes sterilization and genital mutilation, which a recovering liberal friend calls “unscientific, bizarre, and cruel.”
American Greatness
Our French Revolution
America now has three potential futures and two are bad.
We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.
The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.
It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.
The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.
They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.
American Thinker
The woke mob goes after Jennifer Aniston and Friends
The famous sitcom Friends is what one would regard as vanilla-flavored — it was enjoyable, inoffensive, sweet, and reliably entertaining.
The series made household names out of Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer.
It was almost as if the makers of Friends took the premise of Seinfeld, removed the edginess, the misanthropy, the darkness, and the realism (as real as they could be in a ‘90s sitcom), and replaced it with innocuous humor, drama, elements of a soap opera, and above all, good-looking stars. The soap opera element became more pronounced as the seasons went on, as the series attempted to engage audiences by romantically linking its principal characters.
Bearing Arms
Nashville police talk response, illustrates key point
It wasn’t that long ago when a lot of headlines claimed that Uvalde police failed to enter Robb Elementary School due to fears over the shooter’s AR-15. This was, of course, taken as evidence that we should ban so-called assault weapons.
In Nashville, though, something different happened. While the killer also had an AR-15, the police responded very differently.
The heroic police officers who stopped a gunman at a Nashville Christian school March 28 have spoken out about their response, telling reporters they entered the school “without hesitation.”
Six people were killed when the shooter, Audrey Hale, entered The Covenant Christian school in Nashville and opened fire with two “assault-type” rifles and a handgun. Within minutes, Nashville Police entered the school and subdued the shooter, saving the lives of countless potential victims
Diogenes’ Middle Finger
Tripping the Light Fantastic and Dancing Madly Backward into a Nightmare
The left has successfully brain-damaged much of America with a disastrous education system and near-monolithic media. I was but a wee lass during the Reagan years, but I have read with much interest and fascination the histories of the turbulent America of the 1960-1980s. Much of the way I look at the world from a philosophical and political point of view come directly from that period.
