By Kent R. Kroeger (January 7, 2022)
The headline photo is not meant to imply the COVID-19 pandemic has been an amusement ride. Quite the opposite. …
By Kent R. Kroeger (January 6, 2022)
[Author’s Note: The opinions and errors found in this essay are mine alone. And do not make personal health or financial decisions based on this essay.]
From the start, this blog has been about the democratization of policy data and public policy analysis…
By Kent R. Kroeger (January 3, 2022)
[Author’s Note: The opinions and errors found in this essay are mine alone. And do not make personal health or financial decisions based on this essay.]
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uniformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.”
— Mark Twain
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By Kent R. Kroeger (August 9, 2021)
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In an interview with In Style magazine, COVID-19 vaccinated actress Jennifer Aniston lamented that she recently had to cut-off people from her “weekly routine” who could not (or would not) confirm they had received a COVID-19 vaccination.
By Kent R. Kroeger (July 30, 2021)
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Nursing home liability waiver laws, on the books in 19 U.S. states at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have been responsible for 20 to 50 thousand COVID-19 deaths — representing nearly 6 percent of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths.
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By Kent R. Kroeger (July 6, 2021)
“Our political opinions and attitudes are an important part of who we are and how we construct our identities. Hence, if I ask your opinion on health care, you will not only share it with me, but you will likely resist any of…
By Kent R. Kroeger (June 28, 2021)
DUBAI, June 22 (Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organizations, taking them offline for violating U.S. sanctions.
Several of the sites were back online within…
By Kent R. Kroeger (June 25, 2021)
In his classic 1984 Duke Law Journal essay, The Marketplace of Ideas: A Legitimizing Myth, Law Professor Stanley Ingber described the news and information landscape within the U.S. in ways easily applied to today:
“In our complex society, affected by both sophisticated communication…
By Kent R. Kroeger (June 10, 2021)
In one of my favorite scenes from 1992’s A Few Good Men, Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), who is defending two Marines accused of murder, meets the prosecuting attorney, Capt. Ross (Kevin Bacon), at a bar to tell him he has a credible…
By Kent R. Kroeger (June 3, 2021)
Don’t get me wrong, I love superhero movies.
I stood in line in 1978 for Superman: The Movie with a level of anticipation only surpassed later by the birth of my children and the final episode of The Sopranos.
But after 40 plus…
Kent Kroeger
I am a survey and statistical consultant with over 30 -years experience measuring and analyzing public opinion (You can contact me at: kroeger98@yahoo.com)
