Internationalizing the Second Amendment
A Federal judge in Illinois has ruled that an illegal immigrant has the right to own and carry a firearm
A Federal judge in Illinois has ruled that an illegal immigrant has the right to own and carry a firearm
Trash bins in front of an old church may ruin the photograph but they cannot ruin Pisa. A brief look,at the dark side of contemporary Italy.
Once upon a time, when working class people had skills and practical wisdom and the educated classes actually studied subjects closer to reality than the race and gender fantasies that give college presidencies to people like Claudine Gray….
You could read FOX News or Tucker Carlson for the rest of your life, and while you might hear echoes of any number of conspiracy theories—Carlson sounds more like Glen Beck and Alex Jones every day—but never hint that the country’s problems cannot be reduced to the machinations of evil Democrats and weak-spined Rinos.
The dishonesty of journalists is not only a modern, much less postmodern phenomenon. From the days of Daniel Defoe, spy, propagandist, journalist, British (and later American) journalists have been a breed distinguished by their low character and inveterate dishonesty.
Why do journalists lie? I do not ask this question as a joke with a punchline waiting in the wings or even as an illustration of mankind’s general propensity to lie, cheat, and steal. My question is intended to go to the heart of what journalism is, fundamentally: a “profession” in which men and women, without any particular skills or qualifications, spend their time at work making and repeating statements that they either know are untrue or, if they are so obtuse as not to know they are telling lies, they should be required to keep silent.
In the midst of war and rumors of war, the ongoing soap opera of “The Sussexes” seems hardly worth mentioning, but if–like some future archeologist, holding his news and sifting through the middens of a 21st century….