Can’t live with him, can’t survive without him. They denounce him. They decry his existence in the public realm. But in reality, the denizens of the Fourth Estate would be entirely lost without former President Donald Trump to “push around.” There exists an almost symbiotic relationship between the 45th president and the media, each feeding…
Urban pandemonium and rampant crime are transforming many American cities into seemingly third-world metropolises. Aggravating this roiling mayhem is a flagrant open-border policy that is flooding US cities with undocumented foreigners in street camps and homeless shelters. Alarming increases in reported cases of measles, tuberculosis, polio, and leprosy are all just additional symptoms of these…
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Pain coming for seniors if the White House axes private medical care services. President Joe Biden followed through on his administration’s proposal to reduce next year’s base payments to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by an average of 0.16%. This marks the second consecutive year of appeasing progressives. For the last couple of years, health care…
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When all else fails, blame social media. Purveyors of censorship activities enjoy tossing around two terms: misinformation and disinformation. World leaders, from President Joe Biden to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, routinely spout these words to dismiss legitimate criticisms of progressive orthodoxy or statist endeavors. A Google Trends search shows these 14-letter words have ballooned…
As America becomes more polarized, professional journalism is becoming more infantilized. The bias that has long poured over the tipping point is now being openly expressed as formal necessity for a craft that once pledged itself (no matter how insincerely) to an objective and neutral commitment to reporting facts. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism…
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James Bond author Ian Fleming wrote: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” The sudden swell of media stories declaring that former President Donald Trump is trying to position himself as a Messiah come to save America certainly seems to fit the bill of Fleming’s third occurrence. A deluge of articles…
Parental consent is needed for piercing body parts. Why not for abortion? The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has, in all its massive wisdom, declared that parental consent for abortion is harmful. The organization released a report this week on the Michigan state law passed in 1991, which demands permission from a parent before the…
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Are we losing the American Dream? Life in the US has changed a lot in the last 50 years, and it seems for many, the American dream has lost its luster. A new survey by the Monmouth University Polling Institute found that more than three times as many Americans want to move to another country…
A recent study of Burmese pythons concludes that snake meat is more efficient to produce than traditional livestock, making it a viable protein alternative to cows or pigs. Given the primeval human aversion to snakes, this menu item may be a harder sell even than crickets or faux-meat nuggets. However, the omissions and biases inherent…
No love for nationwide injunctions at SCOTUS. The Supreme Court gave cold comfort to arguments in favor of a nationwide ban on dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone (aka RU-486) on Tuesday, March 26th. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine is a faith-based group for anti-abortion healthcare providers. They won a remarkable victory in a Texas federal…
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After waving goodbye to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and relocating to the LA Dodgers, it was supposed to be a fresh (and winning) start for international superstar Shohei Ohtani. Instead of concentrating on being the $700 million phenom he is, the two-way player has been forced to confront a sports gambling scandal. It…
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As presumptive nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden received the expected and overwhelming majorities in a series of anticlimactic primaries on Tuesday – in Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, and Florida – apparently, the permission concept has taken hold in big corporate media’s coverage of the 2024 presidential election. Once the leaders of the band, those…
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