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Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> There are precious few animal shelters or rescues in Fayette County, so it was exciting to hear that county officials plan to reform the board and again open the Fayette County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The shelter ...

Elon Musk mistook Twitter for the real world

ThereĢƵ something tragically poetic about Elon MuskĢƵ purchase of Twitter.ThereĢƵ a whole subculture of lamentation about modern society that can be fairly well summed up in Peter ThielĢƵ roughly decade-old gripe that things like Twitter were distracting us from greatness: “We wanted ...

A salute to our veterans

On Veterans Day, we honor the men and women who have served in the armed forces, protecting this country and its ideals of freedom and democracy.I am particularly intrigued by the veterans who answered their countryĢƵ call in World War II. They are pictured on small banners displayed on ...

Freedom to boycott is free speech, too

It takes a certain inconsistency to argue, as Elon Musk has, that activists are “trying to destroy free speech in America” by pressuring companies to pause advertising on Twitter, the social media platform he just overpaid for. A “free speech absolutist,” as Musk describes himself, ...

Goodbye affirmative action, hello individual freedom, dignity

The Supreme Court just heard arguments in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.ItĢƵ about affirmative action – universities using race and ethnicity in their admissions policies.Students for Fair Admissions argues ...

Everyone deserves patient-centered care

It was September of 1974 when my 57-year-old fatherĢƵ cough was diagnosed as lung cancer. He had stopped smoking 14 years earlier, and none of us were totally cognizant of the ramifications of his previous environmental exposures. All we knew was that a great person and father had been given ...