The Many Forms of Censorship Converge on Hunter’s Laptop
There has been much in the news lately about censorship. The major media have been reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to keep the Russian people from hearing the truth about his war against Ukraine and what President Biden has called war crimes. Dictionary.com offers this definition of a censor: “an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television…
The New York Times, Hunter Biden and the Suicide of Media Credibility
Ya gotta love the New York Post. Way back there in the stone age of October 14, 2020, the Post ran this headline on its front page next to a photo of a smiling Hunter Biden alongside his also smiling Dad, Joe. The headline, all in caps: "BIDEN SECRET E-MAILS." This Post scoop was, suffice to say, a major news story in the middle of a hot presidential campaign between…
Blistering Doc ‘Whose Children Are They?’ Takes on Teachers Unions
Producer Deborah Flora shares urgent need for her documentary's message. Whose Children Are They? is a blistering attack on public schools in the 21st century. The documentary, playing in theaters nationwide March 14, excoriates schools for indoctrinating children in Black Lives Matter rhetoric, Critical Race Theory and more. Meanwhile, both scholastic achievement, and the young…
School Days, School Days in the Sunshine State
Washington — As I wrote many years ago, when an entity falls under the control of liberalism, it eventually loses all sense of what its purpose was to begin with. The entity can be as small as a schoolroom or as vast as a great city or even a nation. Hand over a schoolroom or a vast city to the leadership of a cabal of liberals, and you will eventually see the schoolroom devoted to teaching…
Push Where There’s Mush
There is no substitute for American strength. When America's enemies find weakness, they exert pressure. And today, America's enemies are finding weakness at nearly every turn. Vladimir Lenin supposedly stated that his preferred foreign policy strategy was to “probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.” Vladimir Putin follows the same strategy. This week…
The Deeper and Deeper into Debt We Go...
In his State of the Union address, President Biden claimed he would, be “the only president to ever cut the deficit by more than $1 trillion in a single year.” While this is technically true, he ignores the fact that the reduction in the deficit will be due to the decreased expenditures associated with COVID-19 relief.
Putin’s War Puts Him in Infamous Company
Washington — You might recall last week that I began calling President Vladimir Putin of Russia “KGB Col. Vladimir Putin.” I meant to diminish him in the eyes of my readers. I asserted that he rose to the rank of colonel when he was in the KGB, or, rather, when there was a KGB. Well, this column has a very erudite audience, and several of my readers protested that Vlad never achieved the rank…
Freezing Bank Accounts Violates Freedom
Russia's invasion revealed big differences in how politicians deal with threats. The president of Ukraine, when offered evacuation, said, “I need ammunition, not a ride.” He's a leader. By contrast, in Canada a few weeks before, when truckers staged a protest against COVID-19 rules, the cowardly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau felt so threatened by the peaceful protesters that he went to “a…
Woke Disney Hypocrisy In Florida
Unreal. Florida has passed a “Parental Rights in Education bill” - and the Disney corporation, which of course has Disney World in Orlando, is livid. The left has, all too predictably, nicknamed the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.
Clueless Oscars Can’t Face Ratings Reality
Latest stunt to bring audiences back ignores bigger problems plaguing show. The Oscars stepped on yet another rake en route to its annual broadcast. Late last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it will pre-record select awards prior to the show and include an abbreviated version of them in the broadcast. Why? The show is three-plus hours long, and this will help…
What Is America’s Foreign Policy?
Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but neither side believed the other would use them. Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed the game by threatening to use nukes should the U.S. directly confront his forces now raping Ukraine and committing…
A Look at Biden’s Unspectacular Address
When a president’s poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden — 37 percent approval — he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing that is likely to stem his free fall. Washington Post columnist Henry Olson said…
A Free Press Under Assault: Attempts to Silence Newsmax, OANN
Without question, the free press in America is under assault. In his recent speech at CPAC, former President Trump felt compelled to speak up for One America News. Why? The Associated Press has headlined this: "DirecTV drops Trump-friendly One America News." And then there is the targeting of Newsmax, another pro-Trump conservative TV outlet. Atlantic Broadband, now called Breezeline, has…
Is This the Most Revealing SNL Sketch of the COVID Era?
A group of urban liberals come face to face with some awkward pandemic truths. Saturday Night Live too often produces propaganda, not satire. The show’s overtly liberal bent has shattered a legacy of mocking the powerful, regardless of party affiliation. For one night, though, the show’s propaganda gave way to something new. You could call it comic therapy. A Feb. 26 sketch featured…
