January 29, 2021, St. Petersburg, Florida. Less than a second after 3 p.m., I clicked on a link that quite possibly could save my life. Appointments for 10,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine were to be assigned to applicants over…
Vaccines are finally rolling out! And while this feat is impressive, that’s not to say in any way that it’s “miraculous.” I’ve always found it annoying when people refer to medical advancements as “medical miracles.” The latest iteration of the…
March 2020: Hospitals are overflowing. Morgue trucks are lining up. The COVID-19 infection rate is skyrocketing, and the economy is in free fall. If by magic wand, innovators could have delivered a vaccine back then, how much should they be…
Twenty years ago, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the legislation intended to save American children from stupidity and the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” became law. Ten years later, Common Core came to the fore. They both failed. Like all…
Euphoria over an impending COVID vaccine obscures the free-rider problem lurking behind it. Free-riding, the choice by some to avoid vaccination while the larger population receives it, was going to exist under any circumstance — it always does. Yet the…
If there’s one thing this pandemic has revealed, it’s that business travel was never anything more than one gigantic jolly. Call it a gravy train, if you like, or a big trough of goodies into which people stuck their heads…
While Democrats including presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.), Gov. Gavin Newsom (Calif.), Gov. Ned Lamont…
America’s economy must reopen. Closures and job loss due to COVID-19 have had deleterious effects in every business sector and devastated individual citizens in myriad ways. We can only reopen when we are no longer scared. Eliminating fear lands directly…
Three elections ago — all the way back in 2008 — Joe Biden talked a lot about “kitchen table issues,” the questions that faced American families that were so important that they talked about them around the kitchen table. They…