The Myth That Lockdowns Stop Pandemics By Stacey Rudin RealClearPolitics/Commentary August 7, 2020 From the beginning of time, humans have used mythology to make sense of a chaotic natural world. Sir G.L. Gomme dubbed myths “the science of a pre-scientific age.” Folklore provided pre-scientific people a comforting sense of control over nature. To address dry […]
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MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #114 — Report on Aug. 4 Election Predictions, plus interviews with TV Political Reporter Mikenzie Frost & Political Guru Mark Grebner
PODCAST: What’s Going On In China—That’s East China, MI
8/7/20 Interview with Kim Eberhard, an amazing teacher in the East China school district. Partners with www.DeadlineDetroit.com.
HOW THE NATION’S (AND MICHIGAN’S) “LOCKDOWN” STRATEGY CAME TO BE
An excerpt from Part 2 of “Unreported Truths” – a brief history of lockdowns by Alex Berenson August 4, 2020 (This is a condensed version of part of the second chapter of Berenson’s book LOST IN KANDAHAR, which focuses on the history of lockdowns and how they became government policy). The entire booklet is available […]
RCP: CAN JOHN JAMES WIN U.S. SENATE SEAT IN MICHIGAN?
In 2nd Try, James Sees Different MI Challenge (and Outcome) By Philip Wegmann RealClearPolitics August 4, 2020 (AP Photo/David Eggert) Republicans know they could not draft a better candidate for a worse time. Luckily for them, John James was such a candidate before a pandemic ravaged its way around the globe, a recession cratered the […]
BARONE: ORWELL-SPEAK TAKING OVER JOURNALISM
Intensifying Into Violence By Michael Barone Real Clear Politics July 31, 2020 “Protestors in California,” tweeted ABC News, about an incident in Oakland, “set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.” If you’d presented your ninth-grade teacher with that sentence in your weekly writing assignment, she […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #113 — Predicting All Top Races in Aug. 4 Primary, Interview with Adrian Hemond of Grassroots Midwest + Milliken Memorial
PODCAST: Grebner Predicts Disaster This November
7/31/20 Mark Grebner, pundit, pollster, and list provider, predicts a general election disaster and also offers other political insight. Partners with www.DeadlineDetroit.com.
WHAT ANCIENT GREECE’S GREATEST HISTORIAN PREDICTED ABOUT 2020
What Thucydides Knew About the US Today Everyone who reads Thucydides knows him as the most profound and convincing historian of empire, not only in his own age but also in his explicit and implicit predictions of later ages. by Edward Mendelson The New York Review of Books July 30, 2020 Philipp Foltz: Pericles’s Funeral […]
FEARLESS FORECASTS: Picking Winners in Michigan’s Aug. 4 Primary Election
Predictions on All Key Races in Michigan’s Aug. 4 Primary Election THE BALLENGER REPORT July 29, 2020 Beginning Friday afternoon (July 31), visitors to TheBallengerReport.com website can listen to a one-of-a-kind list of predictions for Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary election, not only for Congress and the state House of Representatives but also important local offices […]