I don’t usually recommend long podcasts, but I listened to this one last night and found it extraordinary and well worth a hearing. It’s a detailed exploration of what happened last year in a story that went viral. You probably … Continue reading →
Oregon has quietly enacted some legislation on education in the state: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown privately signed a bill last month ending the requirement for high school students to prove proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic before graduation… The bill, … Continue reading →
It’s come to this: It should be shocking to see a *media outlet* try to create new ways to enable media outlets to be sued and punished because of the views they air, but there's nothing shocking about it, because … Continue reading →
I haven’t written much about this story yet, but the gist of it is that Tucker Carlson was tipped off that the NSA was intercepting his emails and was planning to leak them to the press in order to discredit … Continue reading →
And I suppose it was deadly to Ashli Babbitt – although it was neither the riot nor the rioters that killed her. Other people died that day, but not because the riot was “deadly” – they died of natural causes. … Continue reading →
One of the things that led to my political change was that I took the principles I’d always held dear and applied them to new information. That process led me to reconsider my political affiliation and changed my voting tendencies. … Continue reading →
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the disseminator of the wretchedly mendacious and destructive “1619 Project,” is a journalist. Her 1619 Project, which re-cast the history of the US as slavery-focused and slavery-driven from earliest colonial days, was excoriated by historians but lauded by … Continue reading →
Glenn Greenwald has written some must-read pieces about the January 6th Capitol incursion, and here’a another. This one focuses on the role of the FBI – how much the agency knew, and how involved it was in the planning and … Continue reading →
Well, this story makes sense. And it’s just about the only explanation for the sudden turn-around for the Democrats re the idea that COVID was bioengineered in China. But is the story completely true? Spy Talk, a website that reports … Continue reading →
For many years Richard Landes has done a great deal of thinking and writing on how news propaganda has influenced the Palestinian/Israel conflict. I’ve written about Landes’ work many times before (disclosure: he’s also a friend of mine). Here’s a … Continue reading →
When Donald Trump was campaigning for the GOP nomination in 2016, and then after he was elected, one of the reasons I was apprehensive is that I thought he might be a loose cannon braggart who had a very good … Continue reading →
…gets the last laugh over The New York Times – for now. Big update here. The @nytimes has responded to our demand letter by removing defamatory statements about us from their article. Here's their email to our counsel notifying us … Continue reading →