Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Without Christmas, There Would be No United States

By Scott Powell

As a Christian holiday, Christmas is foundational to America’s original character. It’s affected our founders' understanding of human nature.

Across cultures, people have sought to flee oppression and escape persecution from the beginning of recorded history. A recurring theme in Western classical literature and in modern classics such as Superman and Disney originals, which revolve around the struggle between good and evil, is the need and critical role for a rescuer or savior. The ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind would be a "messiah," who would vanquish evil, oppression and falsehood once and for all. It is no accident that only Christianity has its roots and its entire reason for being in the messiah Jesus Christ. No other religion makes the claim that it was founded by a messiah. [more...]

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Why Aren't Stalked Women Ever Told to Get a Gun for Self-Defense?

By Dr. John Lott

Murder rates decline when people carry concealed handguns.

Reportedly, 76% of women murdered by someone who had been an intimate partner were stalked. Violence prevention advocates for women have a long list of changes they recommend. These changes require women to uproot their lives. Among the advice: Women should change jobs, their travel routes, the time of day they leave home or work, move in with a friend or family member, change the locks on their home, or do their shopping and other chores with friends or relatives. A few recommend that women practice martial arts such as judo, jujitsu, karate or boxing. But the most obvious answer is missing from these lists: Women should get a concealed handgun permit and a firearm. A gun represents a much bigger change in a woman’s ability to defend herself. [more...]

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

12-20-22 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Dick Morris: Jan. 6 Panels Won't Impact Trump Politically

2. John Lott: CDC Political Bias

3. Scott Powell: Why the Christmas Story Never Ceases to Amaze

4. Kenneth Rapoza: Senate Hearing Bemoans Worker Shortages, Wonders if Reshoring Can Work

5. Daniel Greenfield: Biden Admin Condemns Efforts to Restrict Homeless Junkies from Taking Over Streets

6.James Hirsen: 'Wokeness' is Killing Art


Jan. 6 Panels Won't Impact Trump Politically

By Dick Morris

None of the criminal charges the Jan. 6 House select committee is expected to refer to the Justice Department against Donald Trump will bar the former president from running. It will have no impact on him politically. The Republican primary voters see it for what it is. They're going to stick with Trump, and he's going to get the nomination easily.... all this is going to do is to revivify Trump's fortune. It will do one other thing: it marginalizes DeSantis because ultimately the choice here will be, 'Do you think Trump should be in jail or not?' And if you say 'not,' you can't then say, 'Oh, but he should be out as president.' It just doesn't work that way. I think Trump will benefit from all of this, and if the FBI indicts him, it gets even worse. I don't think that's going to hurt him. I think he's going to absolutely come through as unscathed as he was in two 'impeachments.' [more...] Read more: Jan. 6 DOJ Trump Referrals Absurd


CDC Political Bias

By John Lott

For the second year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control has gotten caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies. In 2021, the American Pediatric Academy and the Children's Hospital Association tracked COVID-19 statistics in children and the data show no relationship between mask mandates and the rate at which children caught the disease. In the face of this evidence – and other data showing that masks harm children's development - the CDC supported masking students after being pressured by the National Education Association (the nation's largest teachers' union). Now comes word that the CDC is again allowing partisan politics to influence its policies. This time, gun control activists got the CDC to remove research from its website. Yet, the CDC is trusted to impartially dole out millions of dollars for public health research on firearms: From 2020 to 2022, the CDC and the National Institute of Health (NIH) each spent about $50 million on such research.


Why the Christmas Story Never Ceases to Amaze

By Scott Powell

It's remarkable that Christ had no servants, yet everyone called him 'master.' He had no formal education or degree, yet the educated Jews called him 'rabbi' and 'teacher.' Jesus had no medicines, yet he was desperately sought out as a healer. He had no army, yet emperors and kings feared him. History shows that so many levels of human advancement were made possible by God who became man, born in the humble circumstances of a dirty stable in the small village of Bethlehem, a speck in the vast Roman Empire. And while that empire would crumble and fall, Jesus, who had neither an army nor won any military battles went on to become the Lord and Savior for people who believe all over the world. For, as He said, "My Kingdom is not of this world." [more...]


Senate Hearing Bemoans Worker Shortages, Wonders if Reshoring Can Work

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

A Senate Commerce subcommittee heard from small manufacturers this week and the biggest takeaways were worker shortages, keeping energy prices low, and debates over how reshoring production to the U.S. can work beyond pie-in-the-sky rhetoric. "Manufacturing is central to America’s economic power and national security, and historically, we’ve led the world in the invention of and manufacturing of advanced technologies," said one of the four witnesses, Dr. Kevin Lee, director at the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals. "We’ve lost our leadership position in manufacturing over the past few decades, and this is a threat to our economic prosperity and national security. We invent things here, but we make them elsewhere and import them." [more...]


Biden Admin Condemns Efforts to Restrict Homeless Junkies from Taking Over Streets

By Daniel Greenfield

The Biden administration’s Interagency Council on Homelessness has announced its current position which, to no one’s surprise, doubles and triples down on the same policies that turned San Francisco and Los Angeles, among other major cities, into unlivable hellholes swarming with diseased mentally ill junkies randomly assaulting people in public. The Council falsely claims that mentally ill junkies living in tents on city streets is a "housing" issue rather than what it actually is - a substance abuse and mental illness issue. The Biden administration proposes the same discredited program of fixing the vagrant mentally ill junkie problem with a “housing first” approach. Never mind the fact that this is a population that cannot reliably and safely live in housing, often doesn’t even want housing and that the efforts to build housing have created very little housing while putting money in the pockets of special interests. [more...]


'Wokeness' is Killing Art

By James Hirsen

It has been noted recently by many of the greats within the comedy arts that 'wokeness' has killed comedy. But the truth is 'wokeness' may actually be killing art itself. The arts in today's world have hit a proverbial brick wall. This is because art cannot survive the current woke restrictions that Hollywood is imposing upon the entire entertainment industry. Shallow characters, forced plots, anachronistic themes and the like make for extremely bland product, which is the antithesis of art's purpose and its very essence. [more...]

1/6 Panels Won't Impact Trump Politically

By Dick Morris

None of the criminal charges the Jan. 6 House select committee is expected to refer to the Justice Department against Donald Trump will bar the former president from running. It will have no impact on him politically. The Republican primary voters see it for what it is. They're going to stick with Trump, and he's going to get the nomination easily.... all this is going to do is to revivify Trump's fortune. It will do one other thing: it marginalizes DeSantis because ultimately the choice here will be, 'Do you think Trump should be in jail or not?' And if you say 'not,' you can't then say, 'Oh, but he should be out as president.' It just doesn't work that way. I think Trump will benefit from all of this, and if the FBI indicts him, it gets even worse. I don't think that's going to hurt him. I think he's going to absolutely come through as unscathed as he was in two 'impeachments.' [more...]

Read more: Jan. 6 DOJ Trump Referrals Absurd

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

12-14-22 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Scott Powell: Climate Cultists Have Declared War on Farming and Food

2. Martin Mawyer: An America Without God?

3. Kenneth Rapoza: Globalization is Still Against the Ropes

4. Daniel Greenfield: WNBA Player Too Afraid to Leave 'Racist' Country She Hates

5. Dick Morris: Files Reveal Illegal Political Bias Behind Twitter's Ban of Trump


Climate Cultists Have Declared War on Farming and Food

By Scott Powell

"Climate cultists have now declared war on farming and food 12/12/22, 10:02 PM." Germany has ordered farms to cease operating as WEF demands end of farming to comply with 'global warming' demands. At first, climate cultists claimed CO2 was the primary threat to planet Earth, but now they claim food is destroying the planet. That's why the means of food production are being systematically targeted and shut down. It's all being done on purpose to bring about mass famine, collapse, and depopulation - the goal of "The Great Reset." As of today, the use of nitrate fertilizers has been greatly restricted for large swathes of farmland in North Rhine Westphalia - one of the most abundant food production areas in Germany. [more...]


An America Without God?

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

Eisenhower said it best: "Without God, there could be no American form of Government, no an American way of life."

Everywhere we look we see a godless society. It's godless at the individual, corporate and governmental levels. So let me say something bold that will, for some, come out of "left-field" (or perhaps "Christian-privilege" thinking). Without God, America as we know it, formed it, and built it cannot exist. It will die. The American system was founded upon the assumption that citizens would maintain a belief in a biblical God. Absent the recognition of this Supreme Being - His principles, truths, justice, and morality - America is destined for self-destruction and the grave. [more...]


Globalization is Still Against the Ropes

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

If anyone thought that showing "Tariff Man" Trump the door in 2020 meant a return to pre-Trump one world kumbaya globalism, they ended yet another year disappointed. Globalization remains against the ropes as ever. On Tuesday, Dec. 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) will be introducing a bill that will force leaders at cabinet-level agencies to identify weaknesses in U.S. supply chains that could hurt national security and domestic manufacturing growth. Leaders would be charged with periodically recommending ways that federal agencies can attract private investment and change federal financing programs to advance U.S. economic development policies. [more...]


WNBA Player Too Afraid to Leave 'Racist' Country She Hates

By Daniel Greenfield

America is racist, horribly evil and systemically oppressive. When it’s not randomly killing black people for no reason, it's banning schools from indoctrinating children with the fact that all white people are racist. WNBA superstar, which is up there with 'curling great' and 'back-alley dart throwing legend,' Napheesa Collier had a whole lot of opinions on "systemic racism." But suddenly she learned to love America... or at least refuse to leave it. [more...]


Files Reveal Illegal Political Bias Behind Twitter's Ban of Trump

By Dick Morris

New information revealed in the fourth release of Twitter files documents how the Internet portal railroaded the former president and bent the rules to force his removal from the site. On January 6, 2021, former President Trump sent a message over his Twitter account for rioters to go home and to refrain from violence. This tweet mirrored what he had already said on television in a direct appeal to demonstrators to be nonviolent. Nevertheless, on January 8th, two days after the riot, Twitter permanently banned Trump, while he was still in office as president of the United States. [more...]

Monday, December 12, 2022

Files Reveal Illegal Political Bias Behind Twitter's Ban of Trump

By Dick Morris

New information revealed in the fourth release of Twitter files documents how the Internet portal railroaded the former president and bent the rules to force his removal from the site. On January 6, 2021, former President Trump sent a message over his Twitter account for rioters to go home and to refrain from violence. This tweet mirrored what he had already said on television in a direct appeal to demonstrators to be nonviolent. Nevertheless, on January 8th, two days after the riot, Twitter permanently banned Trump, while he was still in office as president of the United States. [more...]

Thursday, December 8, 2022

12-8-22 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. John Lott: The "Crazy Right-Wing Shooter" Myth

2. Scott Powell: The Parallel Universe of the CCP and the World Economic Forum

3. Daniel Greenfield: Biden Admin Claims Vaccine Mandate Opponents Don't Care About Troops

4. Judd Dunning: Don't Let Globalist, Elitists Lead Us to Mediocrity

5. Sally Pipes: Open Enrollment Numbers Hide Obamacare's Expensive Failures


The "Crazy Right-Wing Shooter" Myth

By John Lott

If you only read the New York Times editorials, you'd believe that political violence in America is a "right-wing" problem. The Times has been warning of violence from the right for years, but on Nov. 19 and 26, they wrote two long editorials making these claims. The violence stems from the lies "enthusiastically spread" by Republican politicians. Democrats' only complicity was their $53 million in spending on "far-right fringe candidates in the primaries." Both editorials mention the mass murderer in Buffalo, New York, as a political right-winger. But they have been doing that all year. In May, the Times claimed he was of the right because he was racist and listened to a video on a "site known for hosting right-wing extremism." You wouldn't know it from reading The Times, but the Buffalo killer was yet another mass murderer motivated by environmentalism. [more...]


The Parallel Universe of the CCP and the World Economic Forum

By Scott Powell

Two fronts of the same irregular war

After the G20 meeting in Indonesia three weeks ago, WEF chairman Klaus Schwab broadcast on CGTN TV that "the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model..." For Schwab, China is the model because the totality of its social controls is what is needed to facilitate the Great Reset and consummate the New World Order. This plan calls for the end of sovereign states, the end of private property and the remaking of the economy based on environmental, social, and governance rankings. It also means the replacement of oil and gas with so-called green and sustainable sources of energy, the transformation of agricultural production, the replacement of traditional money with social credit score-linked digital currency, and the requirement of universal health passports - to name some of the key WEF objectives. Americans are slow to fully understand that the survival of freedom is at stake. Elite capture, influence, and control from Chinese communists and from those brainwashed by Klaus Schwab and his WEF cult must be rejected and stopped. [more...]


Biden Admin Claims Vaccine Mandate Opponents Don't Care About Troops

By Daniel Greenfield

Congressional Democrats have agreed to jettison the military vaccine mandate. The Biden administration, however, continue to fight on. “Making sure our troops are ready to defend this country and prepared to do so, that remains the president's priority and the vaccine requirement for COVID does just that," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby contended. "But Republicans in Congress have obviously decided that they'd rather fight against the health and well-being of those troops, rather than protecting them." As part of its hostility and contempt for the military, Biden, Defense Secretary Austin and other leftist apparatchiks imposed a wholly unnecessary and illegal vaccine mandate that forced our men and women in uniform to leave and helped lead to a recruiting crisis in order to purge conservatives. Now this same corrupt gang of traitors is talking as if they care about the lives of the troops. [more...]


Don't Let Globalist, Elitists Lead Us to Mediocrity

By Judd Dunning, Newsmax Columnist

Most American still know what is true and when something is not true, good, or in line with values established by God. In these instances, we have a moral obligation and right to judge and discern, and even a right to feel disdain and disgust. Cultural Marxists thrive in an ethos where all actions can be rationalized as for the greater good, meaning their greater good. Moral relativism brings their warped versions of tolerance and social justice. They demand we tolerate them no matter what they say or do. Claiming any ultimate good brings out their intentionally false smears of bigotry and racism. For leftists, communists, socialists, globalists and elitists, moral relativism prohibits any entity being better or best. God is not sovereign, and America is not great. These are their big lies. Americans know better: There is a higher good. [more...]


Open Enrollment Numbers Hide Obamacare's Expensive Failures

By Sally Pipes

It's beginning to look a lot like... open enrollment. On December 15, the Affordable Care Act's sign-up period will officially close for coverage that takes effect January 1. The Biden administration has already begun crowing about how many people have signed up. In mid-November, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra boasted that 3.4 million people had enrolled between November 1 and 19. "This may be a very good Christmas for a lot of Americans," he said. Days earlier, Biden announced that enrollment was up 40% compared to last year, and that a majority of Americans could get coverage for "$10 a month or less." But exchange plans are only affordable because Democrats have earmarked billions of dollars in new spending to cover most enrollees' premiums. Rather than address the underlying problems with his old boss's signature healthcare law, Biden and his team have given insurers a direct line to the federal treasury. [more...]

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

12-6-22 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Judd Dunning: Cultural Marxists' Big Lies

2. Carl Schramm: Reform the CDC - Before another Pandemic Hits

3. John Lott: U.S. Downplays Clear Link Between Illegal Immigration and Crime

4. Scott Powell: The Parallel Universe of the CCP and the World Economic Forum

5. Kenneth Rapoza: Is the Dollar Overvalued?

6. James Hirsen: We Are All James Woods

7. Martin Mawyer: Satanic Temple Recruiting Kids


Cultural Marxists' Big Lies

By Judd Dunning, Newsmax Columnist

Most American still know what is true and when something is not true, good, or in line with values established by God. In these instances, we have a moral obligation and right to judge and discern, and even a right to feel disdain and disgust. Cultural Marxists thrive in an ethos where all actions can be rationalized as for the greater good, meaning their greater good. Moral relativism brings their warped versions of tolerance and social justice. They demand we tolerate them no matter what they say or do. Claiming any ultimate good brings out their intentionally false smears of bigotry and racism. For leftists, communists, socialists, globalists and elitists, moral relativism prohibits any entity being better or best. God is not sovereign, and America is not great. These are their big lies. Americans know better: There is a higher good. [more...]


Reform the CDC - Before another Pandemic Hits

By Carl Schramm, Economist

Following the CDC's incontestable failure to protect Americans from COVID, Joe Biden has proposed a 21 percent increase in the agency's budget. If CDC bureaucrats had any concerns that painful reforms were coming, or that their leader, Rochelle Walensky, might be replaced, this proposal surely has put their minds at ease. Nor did two recent expert examinations of the nation's COVID response by highly regarded, independent institutions do anything to worry them by way of publicizing the CDC's negligence in failing to prepare for the kind of global pandemic that, by 2018, experts were already saying was inevitable. Nearly everyone knows that the CDC's colossal failures led to the needless deaths of tens of thousands of people from COVID. Americans will be paying a long time for the CDC's panicked decision to treat a low-fatality virus as sufficient reason to shut down commerce, motivated partly by the government's growing impulse to treat individual freedom as a threat to authority. In light of this debacle, Biden's decision to reward the CDC by showering it with resources seems incomprehensible. [more...]


U.S. Downplays Clear Link Between Illegal Immigration and Crime

By John Lott

Currently crime statistics in the U.S. generally do not allow researchers to make definitive conclusions on how much illegal immigrants may have influenced the rise in violent crime. Because of the political sensitivity of the question, almost no state officials keep track of the immigration status of prisoners in their jails. However, criminal justice experts say that the precision offered by European data may provide guideposts to the United States as it grapples with a host of pathologies ranging from rising violent crime and mass shootings to social disruptions from the Coronavirus pandemic. Europe's experience suggests one avenue of inquiry for policymakers and criminal justice experts is crime directly tied to immigration and drug-trafficking across the porous U.S.-Mexico border. [more...]


The Parallel Universe of the CCP and the World Economic Forum

By Scott Powell

After the G20 meeting in Indonesia three weeks ago, WEF chairman Klaus Schwab broadcast on CGTN TV that "the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model..." For Schwab, China is the model because the totality of its social controls is what is needed to facilitate the Great Reset and consummate the New World Order. This plan calls for the end of sovereign states, the end of private property and the remaking of the economy based on environmental, social, and governance rankings. It also means the replacement of oil and gas with so-called green and sustainable sources of energy, the transformation of agricultural production, the replacement of traditional money with social credit score-linked digital currency, and the requirement of universal health passports - to name some of the key WEF objectives. Americans are slow to fully understand that the survival of freedom is at stake. Elite capture, influence, and control from Chinese communists and from those brainwashed by Klaus Schwab and his WEF cult must be rejected and stopped. [more...]


Is the Dollar Overvalued?

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

Is the dollar too strong? A recent Treasury report shows that it is. That's bad for U.S. industry, U.S. workers, and U.S. farmers. It's good for Chinese and German exporters, which are more competitive against U.S. goods than they should be. But the new Treasury report, like previous reports, offers a lot of words and colorful graphs but recommends no action whatsoever. [more...]


We Are All James Woods

By James Hirsen

Consummate actor of stage and screen, James Woods has become a focal point of the so-called Twitter Files, the first in a series of documents released to journalist Matt Taibbi by Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Twitter seemingly complied with the Democratic Party's directives in suppressing the accounts of select celebrities, quite strikingly the account of James Woods. In the words of Taibbi, "Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party." James has bravely stepped forward to lead a class action lawsuit against the social media platform as well as the DNC over damage done to his personal civil rights, reputation and career. "Whether I win or lose, I am going to stand up for the rights that every American [is entitled to]" says Woods. James knows what informed individuals know; that the rights of each and every American are now on the line. [more...]

 

Satanic Temple Recruiting Kids

By Martin Mawyer, President of Christian Action Network

We now live in the 21st century where logic and common sense no longer intersect. So, we must debate whether after school Satan clubs are appropriate for 5-12-year-olds in elementary schools. That question should be a no-brainer. But instead, it has to be carefully studied, dissected, hashed out, mulled, scrutinized, and deliberated. For those unacquainted with this literally hellish news topic, The Satanic Temple, headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts has launched a nationwide campaign to enroll Lucifer into after school programs targeting elementary students. Oh, and if the school districts refuse to open their doors, they can expect a lawsuit. [more...]

Thursday, December 1, 2022

12-1-22 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Dick Morris: GOP Must Halt Dems' Outrageous Budget Plans

2. John Lott: Gun Confiscation is Not the Solution to Mass Shootings

3. Scott Powell: Reversal of XI's Fortunes a Warning for Tyrants

4. Kenneth Rapoza: China's Zero COVID Revolt

5. Daniel Greenfield: This is How You Take Over a School System

6. John Ellis: The Decline of Higher Education


GOP Must Halt Dems' Outrageous Budget Plans

By Dick Morris

Trump hits back at McConnell.

It's outrageous that outgoing leadership in the House chamber - including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. - is angling to control the budgetary items for the next fiscal year, despite only possessing power for another 30-plus days. Even worse is that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., should be condemned for letting the Democrats get this far with next year's negotiations. It's absolutely outrageous! The people of this country voted for the Republicans to run the House of Representatives in 2023. [more...]


Gun Confiscation is Not the Solution to Mass Shootings

By John Lott

We should prioritize mental health treatment.

Gun control advocates would have us believe that confiscating people's guns is the solution to all problems. Without so much as a hearing, red-flag laws allow judges in many states to confiscate people's guns due to mere suspicion of mental health distress. A third party need only complain that a gun owner is a danger to himself or others. After reviewing a single written complaint, all a judge needs is "reasonable suspicion." No mental health experts are involved in the evaluation or in treating the person. These laws were supposed to stop the recent mass murders in Colorado Springs and Chesapeake, Virginia, respectively, on Nov. 19 and 23. But why design a law that only takes away a person's guns when there are so many other ways for people to harm themselves or others? [more...]


Reversal of XI's Fortunes a Warning for Tyrants

By Scott Powell

Just a month ago it appeared to many that Communist China was more invincible than ever with Xi Jinping appearing to have tightened his control, securing another extended term at the 20th Party Congress. And while some in the media described his status as "a new Chinese emperor for life" or "Mao Zedong reincarnated," everything has suddenly changed with China experiencing more widespread anti-government protests than those associated with Tiananmen Square in 1989. The simmering grievances against excessive COVID testing and quarantine requirements have now intensified into bold and outspoken opposition against Xi Jinping and the Communist Party. [more...]


China's Zero COVID Revolt

By Kenneth Rapoza, China Expert/Industry Analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America

This past week's protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s draconian pandemic restrictions further highlight the wanton human rights abuses that routinely take place in the world’s No. 2 economy. Zero COVID is more than just an inconvenience to unknown Chinese people thousands of miles away. China’s pandemic management has shut down supply chains around the globe. American businesses should be protesting against Zero COVID as much as the Chinese. Only they have more power than the average Chinese to do so. They can protest by moving supply chains out of China, a country that has become an unreliable partner to American multinationals and a geopolitical risk as well. [more...]


This is How You Take Over a School System

By Daniel Greenfield

Powered by parent groups, takeovers of school boards are a rising trend. What's interesting here is the coordination between a governor and school board members to create systemic change. The Left does this all the time. Everything is coordinated from the top down. Conservative school board members, however, are often on their own in supposed 'red' states. This is just the beginning, but it’s an interesting model. [more...]


The Decline of Higher Education

By John M. Ellis

In the '50s and '60s, academic-freedom disputes routinely took a particular shape. In a small town, somewhere in the heartland, there would be a college campus on which a young academic loudly voiced his opinions on controversial matters - mostly political, but sometimes also on sexual morality, or even on legalizing drugs. This would offend the sensitivities of some local townspeople. If we fast forward to the present, one feature of what's happening on the campuses looks similar: that crucial analytical function is still getting stifled whenever it offends an equally shallow local moralism. But there's a startling difference: the actors have changed places. It's now the professors who do what the small-minded small-town worthies used to do, shutting down analysis whenever it offends them, which is often. In fact, they do it on a vastly larger scale. [more...]