Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 31
February 19, 2020
Watch Del Bigtree Demolish "Herd Immunity" Argument for Beach Ball Mandates in a Single Blow
OK, so maybe more than one blow was involved. It's still pretty impressive. Del absolutely owns the debate here. And those politicians may go on to vote away more of their constituents' freedom - but they can no longer pretend...
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February 18, 2020
More on: Shaming Parents Who Don't Give Their Kids Tamiflu
(This is another brief comment on the hit piece by NBC's Brandy Zadrozny, who attacked a mother whose child had just died because she sought information from an online group that questions Beach Balls and discusses alternatives to pharmaceutical medicine....
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February 13, 2020
You're Unlikely to Go Wrong Assuming Everything the Mainstream Media Says About Alternative Medicine is False
You may have seen NBC's hit piece on the mother whose son had just died – the piece that uses the family's tragedy as an excuse to go after Larry Cook's FaceBook group "Stop Mandatory Vaccination." That piece is titled:...
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January 29, 2020
The Ugliness of the "Women's Marchers"
If anyone ever wonders why I have zero time, and zero respect, for the "Women's Marchers" - this video from Joshua Coleman is why. I've been battling with people on both the left and the right ever since high school....
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January 14, 2020
Remembering my Father: Boundaries of Order Pilgrimage
My father passed away on December 29th of last year. He had been sick for a while, but none of us realized how sick he was until the day before he died. So it was a huge blow to all...
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December 20, 2019
In Which I Talk About Beach Balls & Annabel, and Conceive of a Plan...
I'm very behind updating my blog, but I've been busy: Launching Annabel Pickering and the Sky Pirates (you can still get it before Christmas!), working on new projects, and visiting with various people on their podcasts to talk about my...
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December 3, 2019
My Predictions for Hong Kong from 1991
Back in 1991, when I was just getting started as a journalist in Hong Kong, I wrote this piece for the foreign-policy journal Orbis (published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute.) If I get to it, I may write a...
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October 28, 2019
Capable, Generous Men
Image: Public domain. From my article on LRC today: It’s like reading something out of Solzhenitsyn: A courtroom that is nothing more than a stage for a grotesque parody of justice, some sort of theater meant to satisfy God only...
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October 14, 2019
Sex and Taxes - A Crowdfunding Campaign Worth Supporting
You may know my friend Tomasz, from some of the awesome videos he has created: George Ought to Help, Edgar the Exploiter, and You Can Always Leave are some of the most well-known, although this one – How Government Solved...
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October 8, 2019
Why "Joker" is a Disturbing Film, and Why that's Good
Image: J.W. Waterhouse, public domain. I noticed the police officer standing just to the side of the young lady who scanned our tickets as my husband and I went to see “Joker” this past weekend. Part of me was glad...
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