A true-life movie of a former Planned Parenthood executive who changed her views of abortion and jumped into the pro-life camp was just released to both box office fanfare and Twitter shunning. It’s a real left-right moment. A real showdown of left-right ideologies in culture and politics. On one hand, half in America are pulling...
The European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, found that artificial intelligence could predict the outcomes of cases heard by human judges with a 79 percent accuracy rating. Great. But perhaps the better lead would be this: Artificial intelligence used in the European Court of Human Rights failed to accurately predict outcomes in 21 percent...
Hofstra University students have called for campus authorities to cart off a statue of Thomas Jefferson, saying the Founding Father was a slaveowner and therefore racist and therefore ought not be honored in the public sphere. Guess the Declaration of Independence he wrote ought to go then, too — yes? That’s where this is headed;...
Judge Jeanine Pirro of Fox News was just ripped across the media world for wondering aloud, during televised comments, if a Muslim lawmaker who wears a hijab might be doing so in order to comply with the Koran, and if so, to what extent sharia law might one day supplant the Constitution as the guiding...
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, is trying to build a “brain-computer interface” — or, in layman’s, technology that can read your mind. No keyboard needed. Does anybody outside of the techno-geek crowd believe this is a good idea? Police, intelligence agencies, security forces — these are all front-of-the-line parties just hankering and hunkering for mind-reading powers....
The National Institute of Mental Health reports that nearly one in five U.S. adults suffers from a disorder of the mind, ranging in severity from mild to nearly incapacitating, and that in 2016, only 19.2 million of the 44.7 million struggling with “any mental illness” at all — abbreviated in medical lingo as AMI —...
Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat Muslim representing Minnesota, has generated quite a controversy for suggesting that America’s historical support for Israel is tantamount to “allegiance” to a foreign nation and for previous remarks that she’s made regarding the Jewish people. And rightly so. Her remarks ought not be taken lightly. Just as Rep. Alexandria...
Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren just made national headlines for pushing the idea America needs to provide reparations for blacks to account for slavery. What folly. What political opportunism. There’s a better way to soothe race relations in this country — one that inspires and unites, rather than angers and divides. It’s called achievement....
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist with the mostest, has unleashed a new wave of hail and fire and fury against this White House, telling a listening and disbelieving America that President Donald Trump’s push for border protection, like, is nothing but “a moral abomination,” like because it like reminds of like, the Berlin Wall and...
Raise the red flags on socialism in the United States — warn about the rising youthful acceptance of socialism as based on polls and surveys — and soon enough, on some news channel or other, a media pundit or scholarly spokesperson will point out to a worried American public that this is not a real...
