We’ve heard some people are nervous about vaccination, but the risks of vaccination outweigh the risks of not vaccinating, so I didn’t pay much attention. And then I heard Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. talking about it. The numbers that he gave were startling. Here’s a quote from an older article of his:

[CDC epidemiologist named Tom [...]

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This talk of building fences along the border gives me the willies. When I was a little kid — first through fourth grades — I lived in Berlin. Except then it was called “West Berlin,” and the Soviet-built Berlin Wall was visible from my back window.

There are few more visible symbols of a totalitarian [...]

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Jason at
The Wild Hunt says a Democratic party county chair in Maine has come under fire by
a Christian organization for being pagan. The most serious allegations against her is that she “promote[s] her pagan-worshipping beliefs to Maine’s children,” offering a discount to pagan parents.
There aren’t any allegations of illegality, unethical behavior, inappropriate recruitment [...]

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Via the
contact form, a reader who identifies himself as a financial consultant for the ethanol industry said, and gave me permission to share, the following:

Your post regarding the increased cost of food resulting from higher corn prices is lacking. The price of the raw corn in most food products is insignificant when compared [...]

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Derek and
Cassie have started a web-zine called
Pagan Quill, collecting writing from pagan authors. I have a piece in the second edition called
Why Pagan? in which I sketch a few of the reasons it’s an attractive spiritual path.
I encourage you to look around — I have already added several writers to my regular [...]

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