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Letter: Problems with the pledge Published: 2/12/2021 12:01:20 AM In his Feb. 7 letter, Charlie Stepanek sees the country as being “in need of a common source of unity and inspiration.” He goes on to suggest that we all recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which he quotes. Count me out. As a substitute teacher in several school districts, I am called to engage in this ritual every morning. But I amend the pledge in two ways. First, I drop “under God.” This wasn’t in the pledge when I first learned it. And some historians suggest that the introduction of “under God” in 1954 was done ...

Published: 1/24/2021 12:01:16 AM In a recent post about far-right movements, NBC dark-web analyst Ben Collins writes that “QAnon adherents . . . believe Trump is secretly saving the world from a cabal of child-eating Satanists, have identified Inauguration Day as a last stand, and falsely think he will force a 10-day, countrywide blackout that ends in the mass execution of his political enemies and a second Trump term.” The question is what happens when this prophecy is disconfirmed? Back in the 1950s, Leon Festinger, propounder of “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance,” and his graduate...

Letter: A warped operation On Dec. 19, the Monitor published a letter from Joseph Mendola complaining that the Monitor had published “a political cartoon on Dec. 8 where the doctors and scientists were applauded for the [Operation Warp Speed] policy and President Trump was not even mentioned.” He went on to state that “the truth is that without the leadership and planning by the president, there would be no fast-tracking the vaccine.” A recent CNN report gives the lie to this assertion. Research into corona viruses began in earnest 2003 with the emergence of the SARS virus and conti...

Letter: COVID numbers are off the chart Published: 12/29/2020 9:18:45 AM As always, I found David Brooks’ column ( Monitor, Dec. 21) on at-home testing for COVID interesting, but what really caught my attention was the accompanying graph of the number of daily new cases and the 14-day rolling average. The average almost hit 100 in mid-May – the first wave – and then declined in the summer until September when it began to rise, hitting 102 on Oct. 30. Twenty-one days later, on Nov. 20, it had risen to 344. A month later, on Dec. 20, it hit 855. And, as printed in the paper, the number of...

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