In late September, Hurricane Helene devastated many areas of central America, the Caribbean, and the southeast US. In the state of North Carolina, many residents saw their homes destroyed by severe flooding, and at least 879,000 people were left without power in the wake of the storm. Helen caused a minimum of $53 billion in …
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DOJ Gives Boeing Plea Deal
As Boeing has been in the news once again due to stranding astronauts on a space station after a failure of the company’s Starliner capsule, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has presented the aircraft manufacturer with a plea deal for a completely different matter. This deal will allow Boeing to avoid a trial involving the …
Almost A Year since the East Palestine, Ohio Disaster
On 5 February 2023, fifty cars of a train derailed in East Palestine, an Ohio town near the border of Pennsylvania. The train cars contained, among other things, vinyl chloride, a substance that raises the risk of developing several types of cancers. The derailment caused an enormous fire that required the evacuation of a three-square …
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Maui and East Palestine: Americans Left Behind
At of the time of this writing, over 100 people have died from the wildfires on Maui, a disaster which is the deadliest wildfire in the US for more than a century. Although the origin of the fire is unknown, high winds and dried weather undoubtedly intensified the blaze. In addition, the sirens on the …
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No Pandemic Amnesty: Those in Power Need to be Held Accountable
Last week, an article published in The Atlantic titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty” argues for forgiving one another for what we said or did when we supposedly were ignorant of all covid science. The article was written by Emily Oster, a professor of Economics at Brown University. I entirely disagree with the article. Those …
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Congressional Stock Trade Ban Stalls
Almost two years ago, Business Insider began a series of articles that revealed the extent of the conflicts of interest among upper-level members of the US government. In a series of articles published in mid-December of 2020 collectively called “Conflicted Congress,” Insider revealed that 54 members of Congress and 182 upper-level Congressional staffers have violated …
North Carolina Democrats Commit Fraud Against the Green Party
Each major party in the United States wants to claim that it is the sole upholder of democracy and that the opposing party is the evildoer bent on destroying American society as we know it. Any close look, of course, will reveal that this rhetoric is mere posturing, and that each party will subvert democracy …
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How the Food Industry Influences Nutritional Research & Guidelines
We all want to believe that the research on nutrition appearing in scientific journals is an honest effort by determined but open-minded researchers to uncover the truth. Reality, however, often bears little resemblance to this ideal picture. Of course, humans have their own biases, and scientists often go into a study with a prefixed notion …
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Presenting The Only Developed Country without Universal Healthcare, featuring the California Democrats
The facts are so striking that they can never be repeated often enough. Among developed countries, the United States is unique in that it does not provide universal healthcare for its citizens. As a result, 500,000 Americans file for bankruptcy from medical costs each year, and 45,000 die from lack of basic medical care. Even …
Eliminate this Obvious Source of Corruption: Ban Congressional Members from Owning Stocks
In 1954, then-former President Harry Truman wrote in a diary that an “honest public servant can’t become rich in politics.” The paraphrase of this entry has been widely shared through Internet memes, although Truman never actually uttered the phrase, “you can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.” We’d all like to believe that …
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