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Society

FAQs for Kennedy24 Campaign: Short Statements of RFK Jr Positions

The Ukraine War SHORT: RFK Jr wants a negotiated peace for Ukraine. He opposes US efforts to use Ukraine in a proxy war to unseat Russia. He believes funds spent on this war should instead support domestic needs, building infrastructure,…

Bill Dembski
October 6, 2023

Society

Kennedy for Truth — Why I’m Voting for RFK Jr

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr announced his candidacy for president on April 19, 2023. Why am I voting for RFK Jr and why should you seriously consider voting for him? On this page, I lay out my reasons for voting for…

Bill Dembski
September 7, 2023

Culture, Economics and Finance, Society

Replacing Dirty with Clean Water

“Don’t throw out the dirty water until you have the clean water” was my paternal grandfather’s favorite expression. As an immigrant from Poland, he may have picked it up as a proverb from the old country. Clearly, it is a…

Bill Dembski
July 28, 2023

Culture, Society

RFK Jr’s Letter to Liberals — Book Review

A friend of mine wrote this review for a website whose livelihood depends on SEO-generated traffic. He was therefore unable to post it for fear of offending the search engines and thereby getting the site penalized. I have no such…

Bill Dembski
July 18, 2023

Culture, Personal, Society

Hugh Hefner, Making Sense of His Life

Hugh Hefner died a year ago on September 27, 2017. For several years now, I imagined I would comment on Hefner’s life once he died. But then my Dad died that October of 2017, and it didn’t seem fitting to…

Bill Dembski
September 27, 2018

Culture, Society

The Sidelining of Nike

Nike’s decision to enlist Colin Kaepernick as a spokesperson and then ascribe to him the words “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” has elicited a large reaction, to which I’ll contribute here. Speaking for myself, I find…

Bill Dembski
September 7, 2018

Society

Google’s Antitrust Future

Mark Steyn’s April 4, 2018 piece on the YouTube gunwoman Nasim Aghdam included two wonderful passages about the Internet as Google and its YouTube subsidiary are remaking it. Commenting on YouTube itself, Steyn writes: YouTube is a racket: industrial copyright…

Bill Dembski
April 10, 2018