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1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · DAN FREEMAN

   Guest commentary: Incompetent anti-science leaders are as deadly as disease (opens the original)

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   I recently read of the first two measles deaths in the United States this year. I mourned the loss of two Americans and remembered the 2019 Samoan measles outbreak. In 2018, two Samoan children died after receiving an incorrect preparation of the MMR vaccine. This tragedy became a rallying crying for anti-vaccination activists including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He and others began their campaign in June of 2019. The vaccination rate fell to 31% in Samoa, compared to 99% in neighboring nations. In A

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2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · DAN FREEMAN

   Guest commentary: At $40 trillion, what will I leave my daughter? (opens the original)

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   Daughter and I were discussing politics, never a safe space for Boomers and Gen Y’ers. Sometimes I think she will ask for my car keys to stop me driving. But the conversation turned to news of the nation’s debt surpassing $40 trillion, a number neither of us could comprehend. Writing out $40,000,000,000,000 did not help. There are about 125 million houses in the United States. The debt in terms of houses is $320,000. The average home mortgage is about $260,000. Yikes! We are taking out an ex

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3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · DAN FREEMAN

   Guest commentary: We should all oppose Dan Patrick’s plan to destroy religion in America (opens the original)

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   Recently, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, announced “It is time to set the record straight: there is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state’ in the Constitution.” He does not understand this wall and how it protects us. State religions inevitably limit the freedom to think in novel fashions. The most dramatic example is the church’s insistence that the sun and stars move around the earth. Galileo was deeply religious, but his freedom of thought allowed him to recognize the beauty of sc

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