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How Conspiracy Theories Dominate Politics
In his most recent book, The Rise of Blue Anon (the name is a take-off on the supposed right wing, Q-Anon), David Harsanyi has presented an insightful and alarming description of the current Democrat party. He doesn’t make a distinction…
Joe Biden Considers A Scorched Earth Policy On His Way Out The Door
Scorched earth is one of the most brutal strategies in war. It can be an offensive or a defensive strategy and usually leaves a wasteland of destruction and starvation in its wake. It seems that Joe Biden, on his way out of the Oval Office,…
The Meagre Legislative Actions of the Current 118th Congress
The main job of Congress is to enact legislation so that the executive branch can carry out its constitutional responsibilities. I’ve touched on this earlier while addressing shrinking the size and cost of the federal government.Congress…
When Congress Investigated the Scientific Believability of Polls
In the 1950s the Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, informally referred to as the Reece Committee because Brazilla Carroll Reece was its chairman, delved into the activities of the Ford…
Welcome to Orwell’s World
George Orwell, that idealistic socialist disillusioned by the Soviet “Workers’ Paradise” (what the great Ronald Reagan called the Evil Empire), took special note of how communists perverted language. Famous, in 1984, the motto was “War is…
Actors and Singers Make Comedic Political Analysts
This presidential election, Donald Trump unified the most diverse coalition the Republican party has seen in modern political history. In the end, he won primarily on the economy and immigration. The…
Castrating Boys Symbolizes the Castration of America
Jeff Younger and his sons are suffering an evil of unfathomable proportions at the hands of crooked government officials. All who hear of the case — the court-ordered castration of a young boy and the criminalization of his…
The Worst Presidents in American History
There have been 45 men who have been president of the United States. Over the decades there has been voluminous speculation over who were the worst. That distinction now belongs to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Obama was the most…
Journalism’s Cruel Dilemma
“Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.” Blogger Sean Medlock (a.k.a. Jim Treacher) posted that jibe on Twitter back in 2014, and not much has changed…
The Cult of Credentialism
I once saw a celebrated American author give a class of literature majors one of the best lessons they could learn. He was speaking about the English language when he noticed that all of the students were busy taking notes rather…