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vial, covid-19, coronavirus vaccine ampoule, bottle for injection with syringe

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May 10, 2021
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Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake

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May 10, 2021
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Patent protection is crucial to the free-market system and essential to continuing medical innovation. Whatever immediate benefit might be derived by stealing the vaccine would ultimately be more than offset by the new drugs never brought to market and vaccines not invented. Read More ›

Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island

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April 30, 2021
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Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

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April 30, 2021
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The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›

Embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen for IVF procedure close up

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April 16, 2021
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

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April 16, 2021
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They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›

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March 30, 2021
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Wesley J. Smith Joins Laura Ingraham to Discuss ‘Vaccine Passports’

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March 30, 2021
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Wesley J. Smith joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the disturbing calls by many to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine and to create "vaccine passports." Smith breaks down how such propositions would threaten our civil liberties. Read More ›

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March 27, 2021
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Do Greens Want the World to Be Like the ‘Blackout State?’

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March 27, 2021
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Electricity is essential to modernity. Prosperity depends on it. So does longevity and health. If you doubt that, ask those in impoverished nations who still don’t have access to reliable electrical power! Read More ›

Liquid Nitrogen bank containing suspension of stem cells. Cell culture for the biomedical diagnostic

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March 20, 2021
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Stop Human ‘Fetal Farming’ Before it Starts

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March 20, 2021
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The news rocked the scientific world. Mouse embryos were successfully developed half-way through the normal gestation period using artificial wombs. Scientists were ecstatic. The New York Times reported: “The mouse embryos looked perfectly normal. All their organs were developing as expected, along with their limbs and circulatory and nervous systems. Their tiny hearts were beating at a normal 170 beats per minute.” Read More ›

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March 7, 2021
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The French Revolution is Attacking the American Revolution

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March 7, 2021
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“That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on. Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane! Read More ›

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February 24, 2021
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An Amazon Book Burning

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February 24, 2021
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Book burning has always been a crucial ingredient of totalitarianism. In the 1930s the German Student Union infamously made bonfires from books considered antithetical to National Socialism. Similarly, the zealots who executed Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution destroyed books opposed to the diktats of Chinese Communism. Read More ›

First Lady Melania Trump applauds as gallery guest Rush Limbaugh is recognized by President Donald J. Trump during the State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Limbaugh received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the address.

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February 17, 2021
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Rush Limbaugh’s Life-Affirming Strength

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February 17, 2021
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I have been most impressed over the years by Limbaugh’s strength of character, a crucial leadership attribute in woefully short supply at a time of failing institutions and callow public personalities. Read More ›

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February 17, 2021
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Rush Limbaugh’s Life Affirming Strength

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February 17, 2021
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I deeply admire Rush Limbaugh. Not because of his conservative viewpoints, and not because he’s a uniquely talented broadcaster who can make dropping a pencil interesting radio. Read More ›