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In the previous issue of Uncommon Sense, I shared with you a letter I wrote to the Mary L. Stephens – Davis Branch Library up in Davis, California. If you recall, I was confronting a male librarian who had invited Sophia Lorey, a former college soccer player, to give a speech at the library about […]

Ara Norwood September 16, 2023

The Elephant in the Room,Transgender Issues

Issue 290

Confronting the Left

Recently a library up in northern California invited a woman named Sophia Lorey, a former college athlete, to come to their library and deliver a speech about what it’s like being a college athlete. Ms. Lorey graciously accepted the invitation, but during her speech, she made a comment about how men who pretend they are […]

Ara Norwood August 30, 2023

Media Bias,The Elephant in the Room

Issue 289

Shocking News about the News Media, Part 2 of 2

So if you missed the previous issue of Uncommon Sense (#288) you will want to go back to that issue first and read the Elephant in the Room column before you read this column, which represent Part 2 of 2. In fact, you may want to go back and read Part 1 just to reorient […]

Ara Norwood August 17, 2023

Media Bias,The Elephant in the Room

Issue 288

Shocking News about the News Media, Part 1 of 2

I am a news junkie. I admit it. I’m hooked. But very little that I read in the news surprises me. Most of what I read, much of it falling in the category of bad news, is actually rather predictable. Indoctrinating children about Trans madness? Typical. Mass shootings? No surprise there. Climate change hysteria? Duh! […]

Ara Norwood July 31, 2023

Leftist Hydra,The Elephant in the Room,Victories,Winning

Issue 287

Confronting the Leftist Hydra, and Winning!

I often use this column to raise the warning voice of the dangers facing our nation from the rotten stench of the Woke-Left. In that sense, I am somewhat of a Jeremiah. However, while those dangers are very real, I think it high time I take a moment and point out the great work that […]

Ara Norwood July 19, 2023

The Elephant in the Room

Issue 286

The Sinking Filth Taking Place in June 2023

Periodically I use this column to highlight what I noticed in a given month thanks to the social contagion known as Leftism – a warped and wicked societal germ that poisons everyone and everything it touches. Leftism is destroying our nation in particular and Western Civilization in general. In taking stock of what happened in […]

Ara Norwood June 30, 2023

The Elephant in the Room

Issue 285

Thrown To The Wolves

by Christopher F. Rufo I have been engaged in an ongoing dialogue with a physician who works in a major children’s hospital in a blue city. This physician has witnessed firsthand how transgender ideology has captured the medical profession and jeopardized the first commandment of the healing sciences: do no harm. He has now chosen […]

Ara Norwood June 23, 2023

Another Example of Confronting the Left

Another Example of Confronting the Left

Confronting the Left

Shocking News about the News Media, Part 2 of 2

Shocking News about the News Media, Part 1 of 2

Confronting the Leftist Hydra, and Winning!

The Sinking Filth Taking Place in June 2023

Thrown To The Wolves

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