John L. Smith
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- Sep 26, 2026
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Another wrinkle in the COVID conspiracy (opens the original)
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A former bigwig at Disney dropped a bombshell. “There was a small group of people that knew Covid was coming before the rest of the world,” Bob Chapek, formerly with Disney, told the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Fritz. See the print edition, 9/25/26. Because this interview coincides with Mr. Chapek’s launch of his bitter memoir, Behind the Castle Walls, it may just be a provocative statement uttered to stimulate purchases of his new book. But if it is really true, and if he has proof, then by all m
See Rahm Run (opens the original)
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The Democrat party agenda can be summed up as this: subsidies for only a few on the monies taken at threat of prison from the many. Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and self-described crisis opportunist has, in the print edition dated Friday 9/18/26 in the once venerable Wall Street Journal, his 21st recent op-ed. In his last paragraph he says that the “Midwest is as wholesome as social media is toxic.” Is not Chicago in the Midwest? Which time in history is he talking about? How much mayhe
What about bad guesses? (opens the original)
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Our problem is that we often panic about the wrong things because we’re truly incapable of seeing what fate really has in store for us. Amazon’s “cloud” customers in the Middle East have been seriously inconvenienced by Iranian mayhem. AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE were badly damaged earlier this year by Iranian missile and drone attacks. When those data centers were built, what assumptions were made about regional stability? What risks were calculated? What risks were dismissed as too
Jury duty with a side of gender politics (opens the original)
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I did not expect this in my jury duty summons envelope. A summons arrived for jury duty in a county circuit court within a state among the first thirteen. The envelope contained a form to return. After the boxes for “Full Name” came three boxes to indicate Gender: Male or Female or Other. What is truth? Welcome to the ascendancy of post-modernist philosophy and its thorough skepticism toward any possibility of objective truth. The philosophical revolutions that have led us to gender stipulated a
Chief Justice Roberts applied the Frankfurter fix (opens the original)
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FDR is to Obama as John Roberts is to Felix Frankfurter. FDR placed Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court as a reward for his careful orchestration and development of the legal maneuvers needed to get most of the New Deal through Congress and the courts. Most recently Amity Shlaes described his New Deal sophistry in her book “Great Society: A New History.” His most clever tactic was to label things as taxes rather than penalties or mandates, because the taxing power of Congress was clearly in t
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