America Magazine’s Strange View of Elon Musk
When the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, bought Twitter, conservatives expressed hope, the mainstream media were apoplectic, and the staff [...]
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05, 2022
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12, 2021
Are “Your” Opinions Really Yours?
Some time ago I asked a friend what she thought of the 3000 migrants who for several days had been [...]
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02, 2020
The Media Are Ignoring This Book
The only way to cast an informed vote for political candidates is to become familiar with their qualifications for office. [...]
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03, 2018
“Dilly Dilly,” More Than Silly
“Dilly Dilly” is certainly silly. A medieval king demanding that his subjects pay homage with cases of Bud Light, leading [...]
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02, 2018
Egotism and the Abuse of Discourse
NBA stars Lebron James and Kevin Durant did an ESPN podcast. James opined that Trump “doesn’t understand the people and [...]
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01, 2018
Death by a Thousand Slurs
This has been the mainstream media’s intention from the Republican primary, through the presidential campaign, and throughout Donald Trump’s first [...]
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12, 2017
Why I’m Suspicious of Polls
It’s not that pollsters are dishonest, though some may be. Nor is it that the people polled give answers they [...]
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11, 2017
Why Such Divisiveness?
We hear much lamentation about “divisiveness” today and the cause is generally identified as one political party or both. But [...]
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04, 2017
The Sudden Firing of Bill O’Reilly
The full story concerning O’Reilly’s firing is not yet complete, so fairness demands that any judgment of the man be [...]
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03, 2017
The Media’s Role in Social Discord
In late March, 2017, a 14 year old Rockville, MD girl was allegedly dragged into a school bathroom and raped [...]