The Post-Partisan Emporium

Black Friday Remembrance Day! Preferably issuing DEBT! The Post-Partisan Emporium's Purpose and Standards   This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s writing which has yet to be published. We understand that tempers flare during heated conversations, and we're willing to overlook the occasional name-calling in that situation, ...

Since Inflation Is So High Now, The Elite Have Some Suggestions For How You Can Save Money This Thanksgiving… By  Michael Snyder Normally, inflation is not a major theme on Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately, these are not normal times.  Thanks to Joe Biden and our other crooked politicians in Washington, we are facing an inflation crisis that is unlike anything that we have experienced since the 1970s.  Earlier this week, I discussed a new poll which showed that  88 percent  of Americans are deeply concerned about inflation, and a different poll found that  67 percent  of Americans disapprove of the way that Biden is handling rising prices.  Now Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, and most Americans are finding that their grocery dollars are not stretching as far as they once did. This is being hailed as “the most expensive Thanksgiving ever”, but don’t worry, because the elite are offering some suggestions for how you can save some money. For example...

Was Covid a 'Quantum' Event? To what extent is our crisis a 'nocebo' nightmare? Chris Waldburger The highly respected British neurologist, Oliver Sacks, in his classic work,  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , made an enigmatical observation concerning Tourette’s Syndrome and Muscular Dystrophy. After treating a Tourette’s patient for the first time, he recalls the following: The day after I saw Ray, it seemed to me that I noticed three Touretters in the street in downtown New York. I was confounded, for Tourette’s syndrome was said to be excessively rare. It had an incidence, I had read, of one in a million, yet I had apparently seen three examples in an hour. I was thrown into a turmoil of bewilderment and wonder: was it possible that I had been overlooking this all the time…  A very similar situation happened with muscular dystrophy, which was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases ha...

A Judge Stands up to a Hospital: "Step Aside" and Give a Dying Man Ivermectin A Chicago-area judge saved a grandfather's life with the single question that exposes hospitals blocking doctors from using a safe, FDA-approved drug: Why? Mary Beth Pfeiffer Sun Ng at Edward Hospital in Napierville, Illinois, where officials refused, until ordered by a court, to administer life-saving ivermectin for covid. ( Photo by daughter Man Kwan Ng as submitted to the court. ) Sun Ng, a retired contractor from Hong Kong, traveled to Illinois to celebrate his only granddaughter’s first birthday. He got covid and was near death in a Chicago-area hospital. All other options were exhausted, but the hospital refused to give Mr. Ng a generic, FDA-approved drug with an extraordinary safety record that a doctor believed could safe his life. Finally, a judge asked the right question about ivermectin. “What’s the downside?” Put another way: If a man is dying of covid in an ICU and all else has been...

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article... When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons Charles Hugh Smith The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in day-to-day life.  It's easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion and narrative manipulation (a.k.a. propaganda) as nothing more than human nature, but this dismissal of moral decay is nothing more than rationalizing the rot to protect insiders from the sobering reality that the entire system is unraveling and heading for its final reckoning: collapse. We've become so accustomed to the excesses of marketing that we've lost the ability to recognize the difference between "science"  that's been carefully designed to reach a pre-planned conclusion and  science  that accepts the ou...

UK Data Shows No All-Cause Mortality Benefit for COVID-19 Vaccines The Vaccine Wars Part I Mathew Crawford The original title of this article was, "Did Alex Berenson Fall for a Simpson's Paradox?" I'm rewriting the title and introduction to this article after having finished an analysis that demonstrates  no all-cause mortality benefit to the vaccinated in the UK . You'll have to read through the story to understand why. Are the vaccinated dying at two-to-three times the rate of the unvaccinated  in the UK as Alex Berenson's recent article suggests? Let's be clear:  Alex Berenson  has done an excellent and courageous job during the pandemic. I follow his work and recommend that you do as well. He definitely digs into data better than most journalists, though we should not expect for him to do everything and be everything.  He doesn't have to be perfect and you don't have to agree with every take to understand how important his work is .  I am writi...