Month: February 2023
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic
CHICAGO DUMPING THE TRASH
Source: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic
King Charles to evict Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage — and give to Andrew
King Charles to evict Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage — and give to Andrew
ROYALS DUMPING THE TRASH
Source: King Charles to evict Harry and Meghan from Frogmore Cottage — and give to Andrew
Gisele Fetterman Takes Kids And Scurries Off To Canada, Amid John’s Hospitalization
Gisele Fetterman Takes Kids And Scurries Off To Canada, Amid John’s Hospitalization
WHAT HAPPENED TO STAND BY YOUR MAN?
Source: Gisele Fetterman Takes Kids And Scurries Off To Canada, Amid John’s Hospitalization
As reported by The Independent, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s family recently fled to Canada to escape the overwhelming “media circus” that followed his hospitalization due to severe clinical depression.
Senator Fetterman, a Democrat who won his first term last year while recovering from a stroke, had checked himself into the Walter Reed Medical Center earlier this month.
Giselle Barreto Fetterman, Senator Fetterman’s wife, recently stated that the family’s decision to take an impromptu trip to Canada was due to the media attention surrounding her husband’s illness. “We talked about lots of hard things, and how we will all have to face hard things. About the need to be gentle, with all and with ourselves,” Mrs. Fetterman said.
U.S. Drops in Human Freedom Index; Ranks Behind Ex-communist Nations – The New American
U.S. Drops in Human Freedom Index; Ranks Behind Ex-communist Nations – The New American
Source: U.S. Drops in Human Freedom Index; Ranks Behind Ex-communist Nations – The New American
In the 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, philosopher Francis Fukuyama posited that “liberal democracy” would become the world’s unassailable, default norm. Since then, many would argue, we’ve gotten much liberalism and the appearance of democracy, but the substance doesn’t match the style. And a recent study of liberty in the world vindicates that claim.
In fact, finds the Cato Institute’s latest edition of the Human Freedom Index, after reaching a high point in 2007 (just before the Obama years, do note), worldwide freedom had been in steady decline. But that has changed:
It entered steep decline with the Covid-19 situation in 2020.
Yet even in this world of diminished liberty in which capturing a good freedom ranking is easier, the United States has lost ground relative to other nations. It now ranks only 23rd, behind countries such as Germany, Canada, and Britain, and former communist lands such as Latvia and Estonia. America had been sixth in the world in the year 2000.
The good news is that our nation still ranks seventh in economic freedom (EF) — though, again, the context is a world in which liberty in general has contracted.
Meanwhile, another study, the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA), provided EF data on our states as well. Florida captured the first spot while, in a finding surprising to many, California was not the caboose.
It ranked 49th.
New York was the absolute worst.
COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
Deliberate Attack or Accident?
Source: COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship