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Predatory Health System: Omicron variant shows need to condemn greed and again celebrate community

Predatory Health System: Omicron variant shows need to condemn greed and again celebrate community

Posted by | Dec 5, 2021 |

As the Omicron variant puts us in its grip, America is still stuck with a predatory health insurance and healthcare system that has barely up to the task of meeting our nation’s needs. This new variant was apparently first detected in South Africa, which has been unsuccessfully begging the WTO for 14 months for a “TRIPS Waiver” to allow them to manufacture COVID vaccine… which might have prevented this variant from evolving. And it is all because of greed. The single most brilliant and evil thing that Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman accomplished in the last century was convincing...

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From AIDS to Omicron: How America’s pharmaceutical apartheid creates a viral underclass

From AIDS to Omicron: How America’s pharmaceutical apartheid creates a viral underclass

Posted by | Dec 5, 2021

December 1 was World AIDS Day, marking forty years since symptoms were first reported. Over 36 million people have died worldwide from AIDS-related illnesses. The death rate is slowing as effective drug treatments gain wider distribution. But the inequity that long fueled the AIDS epidemic still exists, with punishing consequences, particularly for the people of southern Africa. The persistence and the vastly unequal impacts of the ongoing AIDS epidemic serve as a warning as the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus makes its way around the world. Little is currently known about this newly-identified SARS-CoV-2 variant referred to...

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How the unequal weight between emotion and policymaking has disconnected voter perceptions

How the unequal weight between emotion and policymaking has disconnected voter perceptions

Posted by | Nov 30, 2021 |

The policies President Joe Biden and the Democrats are putting in place are hugely popular, and yet Biden’s own popularity numbers have dropped into the low 40s. It is a weird disconnect that suggests, above all, voters want “normalcy.” Heaven knows that Biden, who took office in the midst of a pandemic that had crashed the economy and has had to deal with an unprecedented insurgency led by his predecessor, has not been able to provide normalcy. Journalist Magdi Semrau suggests that the media bears at least some of the responsibility for this disconnect, since it has given people...

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Making unacceptable acceptable: The political combat behind the linguistic slur of “Let’s Go Brandon”

Making unacceptable acceptable: The political combat behind the linguistic slur of “Let’s Go Brandon”

Posted by | Nov 30, 2021 |

By Roger J. Kreuz, Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis During an interview with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown on October 2, NBC sportscaster Kelli Stavast made a curious observation. She reported that Talladega Superspeedway spectators were chanting “Let’s go Brandon” to celebrate the racing driver’s first Xfinity Series win. In reality, however, the crowd was shouting a very different phrase: “F–k Joe Biden,” a taunt that had become popular at college football games earlier in the fall. The deliberate misinterpretation of the crowd’s chant was a deft bit of verbal legerdemain on Stavast’s part. Although she...

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A love of reading: Remembering Jeanette Schaffer’s unique life and cornerstone bookstore in Milwaukee

A love of reading: Remembering Jeanette Schaffer’s unique life and cornerstone bookstore in Milwaukee

Posted by | Nov 27, 2021

History is no longer thought of as the realm of larger-than-life people, doing important things to notable ends. The fabric of history is tightly woven with a myriad of stories of people who live to the fullest and leave their own indelible marks on their community. The stories of small businesses and the people who operate them are one of the important components of the fabric of Milwaukee history. What could be a better opportunity to recognize these stories than during the start of the holiday shopping season, especially for Small Business Saturday, on November 27. One such story...

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A False Inflation: High prices are being driven by a few corporate giants trying to rake in too much profit

A False Inflation: High prices are being driven by a few corporate giants trying to rake in too much profit

Posted by | Nov 24, 2021

The U.S. labor department recently announced that the consumer price index, a basket of products ranging from gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, rose 6.2% from a year ago. That was the nation’s highest annual inflation rate since November 1990. Republicans are hammering Biden and Democratic lawmakers over inflation – and attacking his economic stimulus plans as wrongheaded. “This will be a winter of high gas prices, shortages and inflation because far left lunatics control our government,” Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida posted via Twitter on November 11. A major reason for price rises is...

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