Jefferson Health Hospital
These questions asked by MDs leave sanity behind
Why are these questions being asked?
Joe Biden
Guest essay: Pick your favorite reason Dems lost to Trump
It’s hard to win if you don’t know why you lost
Woke
Dems continue to marginalize themselves with Woke ideas
Think of how that would change the wording on cards on Mother’s Day
Culture
Is this misogynist?
No, it made me laugh, and that is my test for what gets used. I don’t have to agree. The interesting thing about this, if you want to analyze it, is that the target is not really women — it is the Disney corporation, and its movement into the Magic
Military
The hoo-hah over “Duty, Honor, Country”
“Duty, Honor, Country.” That is the motto of the United States Military Academy and it is not changing. You may have gotten a different impression from some conservative voices. It is being removed from West Point’s mission statement, a statement that is changed periodically, according to the Associated Press.
Culture
Woke provides the special sauce for tyranny
The dictator of George Orwell’s “1984” knew that “Who controls the past, controls the future: Who controls the present, controls the past.” This is the special sauce of tyranny. How do you gain control? Force of arms is one way. It is expensive, obvious, and fraught with the danger
Culture
Woke: The danger missed by George Orwell’s “1984”
I just finished re-reading George Orwell’s classic cautionary novel, “1984,” and found a new insight, one that I did not have when I first read it in college, in the 1960s. Orwell’s invented all-powerful dictator was Big Brother. Back then, during the Cold War, the villain clearly was
Culture
Birdbrains let Woke take wing
The Woke just won’t quit, you’ve got to hand them that much. We’ve learned the grammar is racist, and math is racist, now it’s birds. Yes, birds. Or their names, anyway. That’s the latest front in the culture wars. The American Ornithological Society, claiming it
Culture
Guest essay: A liberal’s argument against Woke
By Johnathan Zimmerman In the 1950s, the greatest threat to American freedom was the attack on communists and their so-called fellow travelers in government, academia, and the arts. Led by a firebrand senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, the anti-communist campaign destroyed countless lives and careers. To place someone under suspicion,
Culture
Guest essay: Even liberals have problems with Woke
By Jonathan Zimmeran For the Philadelphia Inquirer In the 1950s, the greatest threat to American freedom was the attack on communists and their so-called fellow travelers in government, academia, and the arts. Led by a firebrand senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, the anti-communist campaign destroyed countless lives and careers. To
Race Relations
I lost my brain in San Francisco
I lost my brain in San Francisco Amidst the homeless and debris To be where Lincoln now is banned And reparations are in demand The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care The Woke waits there in San Francisco To hand out lots of cash for
Culture
Why I am awake, but not Woke
I am awake, I am not Woke. Thanks to loving, kind parents, my sister and I were taught there was injustice in the world -- racial, economic, and other -- and we should do what we could to fight it. (My parents were a mother and a father, not a