Category: Feature

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Wednesday’s Child: Fake News

Disinformation, which we Russians lovingly nickname deza, differs from ordinary misinformation in that it is planted or spread knowingly, with malice aforethought and the intent to deceive.  This looks good on paper, until a piece of fake news is actually before us and we start mulling it over, and then what is patently a case of carelessness or even of fraudulent intent may begin to take on the configurations of a gospel truth.  That fake, after all, has not come out of nowhere. That fake is almost always a palimpsest of earlier fakes, and as one’s mind keeps burrowing deeper...

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“We Can Take Anything We Want!” With a report from Andy Vaught of SNO

Finally.  No more lies about police brutality and the legacy of slavery.  Black Lives Matter goes on the record with its mission statement.  BLM organizer Ariel Atkins, describing the  looting in Chicago as ‘reparations,’ declared:

 “I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats, that makes sure that person has clothes.”

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PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESSES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 4

My list of  vital  but neglected problems  includes the threat to freedom of speech and democratic government  from control of  the so-called social media by a handful of unelected men.  These people seem to consider  themselves masters of the universe who can force Americans  in a direction they want us to go.

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A Painful but Necessary Digression

an exclusively deductive political theorist will, with Rousseau, “begin by setting aside the facts” and quickly racing over one pons asinorum after another, declare that all property is theft and marriage, along with private property and “the state,” historical inventions made by tyrannical male capitalists plotting to subjugate the human race.