Author: New Neo

Revisiting FDR’s Four Freedoms

Posted by New Neo on April 06, 2021 11 Comments

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms are still known today mainly because of the Norman Rockwell art that illustrated the concepts. FDR delivered his Four Freedoms speech on January 6th, 1941, exactly 80 years before the Capitol incursion used now by FDR's even-more-leftist heirs to curb liberty.

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What we do and don’t know about deaths connected to the Capitol Hill Riot

Posted by New Neo on February 10, 2021 57 Comments

You may have noticed that quite often when the MSM refers to the Capitol riots of January 6 the word "riots" is modified by the word "deadly". And of course this is correct: those riots were deadly. But what do we now know about those deaths?

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COVID-19 And The Great Reset: Global Effort “to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies”

Posted by New Neo on December 13, 2020 38 Comments

The following quote on liberty has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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Biden’s Verbal Ticks, Flubs, and Underlying Anger

Posted by New Neo on November 01, 2020 43 Comments

You all may have seen videos such as this one that are compilations of Joe Biden's verbal and cognitive lapses. But something even more disturbing is revealed by parts of his speeches that are relatively coherent.

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Liberal writers let TDS get in the way of calling out leftist anti-Semitism

Posted by New Neo on October 25, 2020 30 Comments

Former New York Times writer Bari Weiss' new Tablet piece is an illustration of the kind of confusion a great many liberal Democrats seem to display these days.

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Anti-Trumpers and their Festival of Hatreds

Posted by New Neo on October 05, 2020 30 Comments

When I was in college in the late 1960s, I took a course called Russian Intellectual History. I had always liked Russian literature, I'd been told the professor was good, and the course seemed an easy way to fulfill a history requirement.

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How To Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi attempts to discuss the racism of cross-cultural adoption, fails miserably

Posted by New Neo on September 29, 2020 29 Comments

Ibram Kendi is molding young minds at Boston University as the recently-appointed head of the Center for Antiracist Research. He's a popular author who's ridden the antiracism wave as it has been building over the last few years.

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Scorched: Leftists made a tactical error in Kenosha

Posted by New Neo on September 03, 2020 27 Comments

When Kenosha erupted in flames, it wasn't that the actions of the rioters were so different than in other cities across America. Unfortunately, it's become the new business-as-usual, because we've grown accustomed to seeing much the same things happen in deep blue (i.e. leftist) cities such as Seattle, Portland, and Chicago.

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Happy 90th Birthday, Thomas Sowell

Posted by New Neo on June 30, 2020 16 Comments

Today is Thomas Sowell's 90th birthday, and I want to wish him a very happy one.

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The left is enforcing ideological purity

Posted by New Neo on June 19, 2020 14 Comments

Matt Taibbi writes

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The Regressive Left Embraces Their Inner ’60s Radical . . . With a Difference

Posted by New Neo on June 07, 2020 47 Comments

At some point during the Obama administration it appears to have occurred to the left that its time had finally come and its patience was about to be fully rewarded.

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Obama’s staged “leak” rallies the troops and gives them their talking points

Posted by New Neo on May 10, 2020 48 Comments

Within moments of the recent Russiagate documents release and the DOJ recommendation not to pursue the case against Michael Flynn, the left and MSM chorused nearly the same thing almost in unison: this is a travesty of justice!

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Journalism 2020 – Putting ‘Get Trump’ ahead of #MeToo

Posted by New Neo on May 10, 2020 10 Comments

On Wednesday, Mike LaChance wrote a post at Legal Insurrection discussing the shocking letter to the NY Times written by long-time journalist Martin Tolchin saying that Tara Reade's accusations against Joe Biden should not be investigated:  “I don’t want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance.” As extreme as the letter is, I believe there's a tactical method in Tolchin's madness, and a reason the Times published it.

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Man Without a Mission: Why Does Joe Biden Want to be President?

Posted by New Neo on April 27, 2020 43 Comments

Joe Biden's desire to be president has lasted for at least three decades. Obviously, virtually all presidential candidates are ambitious. But we prefer their ambition to come at least partly from something more than the naked desire to be a powerful person. What about Biden's?

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Be wary of computer models and subsequent interventions

Posted by New Neo on April 06, 2020 39 Comments

Modeling can analyze data about complex systems and make predictions. But the predictive value of computer modeling is hampered by the fact that models are only as good as the assumptions and statistics behind them.

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Overwhelmed hospitals: planning for crisis

Posted by New Neo on March 30, 2020 33 Comments

Compared to COVID-19, we have a great deal of experience with flu. But talking about flu as though it's a single entity is misleading, of course. After all, there are "bad" flu seasons and "good" ones. The range is fairly wide:

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What about the Coronavirus excess death rate?

Posted by New Neo on March 24, 2020 62 Comments

Epidemiologists deal with dry facts and figures, but the subject matter of those facts and figures can be very dramatic: illness and death, and how best to go about minimizing the former and delaying the latter. Usually we don't pay all that much attention to epidemiologists unless we have a particular interest in the subject.

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Infectious Disease, Then and Now

Posted by New Neo on March 17, 2020 40 Comments

I grew up in an era when nearly all children got a series of diseases that are now mostly distant memories. The vast majority of us survived, unlike in previous periods:

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