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Friday, March 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Richard Klagsbrun Aish, No Date   “Students are in a vulnerable position and dread officially attaching their name to complaints against a professor in a program like Social Work. Aside from determining grades, they fear one bad word from a professor to a social agency can eliminate their employment prospects.” Picture the following: A […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

WATCH:Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: One Year Later:  A Conversation with Dara Massicot, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, Feb. 27, 2023 — Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan and authors, Dara Massicot, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine Is the West’s War Now:  Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, Feb. […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, Feb. 25, 2023  “The Biden administration took a gradualist approach to arming Ukraine that White House officials have described as ‘boiling the frog.’” Two days before the Russian invasion of his country, on Feb. 22, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was welcomed to the White House. As he greeted President Biden and senior […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Guy Taylor Washington Times, Feb. 20, 2023 Part Two: Russian critics emerge to shred Putin’s strategy Part Three: Fallout from Russia-Ukraine war reshapes global order “The war is not going to end in April 2022, as everyone was expecting last February, [and] it’s extremely likely that it’s not going to end in April 2023.” More than […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Ben Wolfgang The Washington Times, Feb. 21, 2023 Second of three parts “He’s in danger of being outflanked by the very political constituency he created. The chauvinistic, nationalistic, arguably fascistic right wing that was his support base is now castigating him for not going far and hard enough.” The West hoped its heavy military […]

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Thursday, March 2nd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Boris Johnson and Lindsey Graham WSJ, Feb. 22, 2023 “After a year of slaughter, the West needs to do more to show the people of Russia what they are losing under Mr. Putin’s misrule.’   It has been a year since Vladimir Putin launched his vicious and unnecessary war in Ukraine. So far he has failed. He has […]

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Wednesday, March 1st 2023 / Wednesday, March 1st 2023

          WEEKLY QUOTES   “I strongly condemn the cruel and violent rampage against the residents of Huwara yesterday. This is not our way. It is criminal violence against innocents.  It harms the State of Israel; it harms us; it harms settlers. It harms security forces who are busy searching for those […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Timeline: How The Covid Lab Leak Origin Story Went From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ To Government Debate:  Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, Feb. 26, 2023 — The U.S. Energy Department reportedly became the second government agency Sunday to conclude the coronavirus probably leaked from a lab rather than jumping from animals to humans naturally, a “low confidence” conclusion that lends more attention […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Alyssia Finley WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023 “The concept of natural immunity isn’t scientifically controversial, yet it was disparaged by public-health officials who associated it with opposition to lockdowns and the Great Barrington Declaration in autumn 2020.” The Lancet medical journal this month published a review of 65 studies that concluded prior infection with Covid—i.e., […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  John Tierney The Free Press, Feb. 27, 2023   “There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.”   We now have the most authoritative estimate of the value provided by wearing masks during the pandemic: approximately zero. The most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that neither […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Smriti Mallapaty Nature, Feb. 14, 2023   “The researchers concluded that the virus was probably shed by humans, but Rasmussen and others are keen to take a closer look at the raw data, which included swabs from a defeathering machine, to see whether they can identify animal species.”   The World Health Organization (WHO) […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel WSJ, Feb. 26, 2023      “Despite the agencies’ differing analyses, the update reaffirmed an existing consensus between them that Covid-19 wasn’t the result of a Chinese biological-weapons program, the people who have read the classified report said.”   The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most […]