American Revolutionary War Patriots, and other links

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• American Revolutionary War Patriots Buried In Texas -- “Samuel Smith settled in Rusk County, Texas where he died May 27, 1856 and is buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near New London, Texas.”
• Andrew Sullivan Announces He’s Quitting New York Magazine -- “For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
• Bari Weiss Resignation Letter -- “It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times...My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.”
• Dean fired after saying ‘EVERYONE’S LIFE MATTERS’ in email -- “It seems clear that College Dean McKinney used my email regarding Black Lives Matter (BLM) as rationale to fire me. This is attributable to one phrase in my initial email that otherwise was very clearly a message to NOT discriminate against anyone.”
• “Fairness for All” Is Well Intentioned but Inadequate and Misguided -- “Fairness for All would treat reasonable disagreement as if it were discrimination, impose sexual and gender ideology, and penalize those who dissent.”
• ICU deaths from COVID-19 may be decreasing, study suggests -- “As cases of the novel coronavirus continue to rise in many states around the country, new data provides some encouraging details.”
• Iran executes defense ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy -- “Occasionally Iran announces arrests and convictions of alleged spies for foreign countries, including the U.S. and Israel.”
• Kolaches, they always rise to the occasion -- “Well, at least we no longer have to explain what a kolache is: interest in our beloved Czexan confection has been rising like a ball of warm dough.”
• Lockdown Suicide Data Reveal Predictable Tragedy -- “Doctors in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than they’ve seen from the coronavirus during the pandemic.”
• Marxist critical theory in practice: The Redskins demand -- “The name of a sports team or a logo, or any other demand by the left, is never what is important to them. The purpose of their faux outrage is simply to maintain constant pressure on institutions, entangling them in perpetual ‘controversy,’ diminishing their value and causing eventual collapse.”
• The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics -- “The dumpster fire of COVID predictions has shown exactly why it’s important to sustain and nurture skeptics, lest we blunder into scientific monoculture and groupthink.”
• The False-Positive Panic over COVID-19 -- “They are testing their athletes daily or every other day using a test that is no better than 70 percent sensitive. Eventually all the players will test positive.”
• The Supreme Court Tries to Settle the Religious Liberty Culture War -- “Since that case [Obergefell], Roberts and Kagan have been in the majority of every opinion relevant to the clash between gay rights and religious liberty.”
• This Texas couple set up a Spanish-language errand-running service to help keep the Latin community safe -- “This population isn’t able to stay home. They don’t have jobs that work from home. They don’t have the luxury for that.”
• Thomas Sowell: ‘Systemic Racism’ Has ‘No Meaning’ -- “...this phrase, ‘systemic racism’...really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses.”
• Young mother shot in head for saying All Lives Matter -- “Police in Indianapolis are investigating the murder of a young mother who was allegedly killed for telling Black Lives Matter activists that ‘All Lives Matter’.”