by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Hard to believe this made it into law… The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more than $60,000, according to a draft settlement filed in...
by Ty Davison | May 9, 2022 | News & Commentary
Salem-Keizer will continue to push ahead with a deeply flawed “embedded honors” program while eliminating most advanced classes. This terrible idea springs from a flawed premise: That disparity equals discrimination. The result will be that high achieving...
by Ty Davison | Dec 31, 2021 | News & Commentary
I remember some years ago receiving copies of Scientific American after my brother, he of physics degree, was finished with them. They were mostly confounding to me. I did not have a science background, and being well-read only carries one so far when delving into the...
by Ty Davison | Nov 20, 2021 | News & Commentary
The Rittenhouse case was lost during the prosecution. Under state law once a reasonable claim of self-defense was made—and the prosecution(!) videos and witnesses clearly made that case—the burden falls to the DA to prove that it was not self-defense. They...
by Ty Davison | Sep 6, 2021 | News & Commentary
Ivermectin has little proof as a Covid treatment. The first study was found to be falsified, and it’s basically been downhill from there. It is now part of a larger problem, though. Ivermectin was made famous not because there are animal formulations for...
by Ty Davison | Sep 2, 2021 | News & Commentary
For decades pro-life efforts to restrict abortion have crashed against the rocks of Roe v. Wade. Besides being extraordinary restrictive (6 weeks), the Texas law uses a novel legal concept to (apparently) escape judicial scrutiny: enforcement is up to private citizens...