How the MSM makes its sausage
“Reporting the controversy.”
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The eternal victim: Jussie Smollett
Does it seem as though there have been a great many high-profile trials lately? That’s because there have been. And the latest involves actor Jussie Smollett. He originally claimed to be a victim of a racial hate and homophobic crime. … Continue reading →
Open thread 12/1/21
Cultural appropriation, anyone?
Continue reading →Activism on the right: alumni power; keeping red states red
University alumni have been increasingly using their power of the purse to put pressure on universities to defend academic freedom of thought and expression. Note the links there to organizations supporting and helping to organize the effort. Here’a another worthy … Continue reading →
Andrew Branca will be covering the Kim Potter manslaughter trial at Legal Insurrection
I had to think a moment before I remembered what that case is about. It’s the tragic situation in which a veteran police officer named Kim Potter thought she was reaching for her taser (yelling the warning “Taser, taser, taser!”) … Continue reading →
Leftist Arizona State students don’t want Kyle Rittenhouse around
Where does Kyle Rittenhouse go to get his reputation back [see *NOTE below]? There’s a group of Arizona State students who have discovered that Kyle Rittenhouse was enrolled in some online ASU courses, and are incensed by this terribly distressing … Continue reading →
You may have noticed that there’s been an overactive spam filter here lately
Some of you may have experienced comments disappearing for no reason. Well, I usually don’t know the reason, either. I just check the moderation folder and the trash and spam folders now and then and I find them, and then … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/30/21
Hold on to your hat!
Continue reading →RIP Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim, one of the giants of the American musical theater, died three days ago at the age of 91. Sondheim’s Wiki entry describes him this way: Sondheim was praised for having “reinvented the American musical” with shows that tackled … Continue reading →
The Waukesha killer/racist: down the memory hole
As soon as it was revealed that the Waukesha mass murderer was a black career criminal who hated white people, it was a no-brainer to state that the huge story would fade from view as quickly as possible and that … Continue reading →
Are the mullahs of Iran seriously threatened?
It seems to me that I’ve been reading for over a decade that the fall of the Iranian government is imminent. That’s never even come close to happening, as far as I can tell. And so I take this article … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/29/21
Not Moby Dick:
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