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Conflict in Ukraine that has claimed nearly 300,000 Russian casualties and caused nearly a million more to flee the country. Russia also does not attract immigrants in great numbers. Birth rates are at a historic low, especially in regions near the conflict zones.

By all metrics, the skies of 2024 are overwhelming in their display of the extraordinary. Celestial spectacles are appearing with increasing frequency for those who know how to gaze heavenward in wonder.

China’s inability to produce cutting-edge technological advancements has resulted in using American universities for R&D to compete with the U.S. in the marketplace. This unethical and aggressive behavior has not endeared the Chinese to American politicians or businessmen.

With companies getting involved in every aspect of the cultural debate today, there seems to be no end to what a corporation will do to further a liberal agenda.

The California legislature passed a law last October to force an act of compulsory charity toward low-wage earners by mandating an increase to the minimum wage for large companies.

Nederland, Colorado, about 15 miles west of Boulder, witnessed a contentious issue unfold when an environmental group, Save the World’s Rivers, influenced local authorities to pass the Rights of Nature Resolution.

Mariela Castro was given a visa to come to the US to speak out for “LGBT rights.” The irony of this fact is that she comes from a nation where there is no free speech and our State Department defended the decision to grant her a visa on the grounds of freedom of speech.

As a result of the world population growth slowing, some curious efforts to bolster diminishing birth rates have surfaced, not least of which is the invention and promotion of robotic babies in Japan.

Why the World Is Running Out of Babies: Birth control and abortion now appear to have achieved their goal of ridding society of those pesky unwanted pregnancies.