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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, recently announced the new set of criteria the paper will be using in determining which editorials make it to its opinion pages. His explained himself as follows: “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and …
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Today, Mar. 6, Townhall published an article by Matt Vespa on Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative Supreme Court Judge appointed by Donald Trump early in 2020. Entitled “Do We Have an Amy Coney Barrett Problem,” it suggests that Barrett is somehow a traitor to her values in that she has not supported the Trump/Republican point …
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As a Canadian whose primary academic interests have always been the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, I was not, up until the recent past, much interested in politics. Yet I was always aware of a certain amount of resentment in this country against our neighbour to the South for its apparent assumption that …
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Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently announced that the White House will henceforth be deciding which news outlets will be included in the Press Pool given access to the president’s various public pronouncements. For decades, she said, the White House Correspondents Association [the W.H.C.A.], a group of D.C. journalists representing the “legacy media,” had more …
On Feb. 21 Not the Bee published an article entitled: “Why isn’t the media talking about the 70 Christians that were just beheaded?” The author’s claim that many Western news outlets were ignoring the story was somewhat corroborated by my dozen or so friends who get their news from mainstream T.V., yet knew nothing of …
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On Sunday, Feb 16, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was invited to join Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation in a discussion of the Friday speech by J.D. Vance in Munich before the leaders of the European Union. Given that conservatives cherish certain traditional Western values utterly inconsistent with the D.E.I. worldview, Vance excoriated the …
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In his attempt to expose the corruption of the Biden administration, Donald Trump appointed Elon Musk the head of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. Its primary target was immediately identified as the USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development. While the agency’s objective is clearly implied by its title, Musk declared it to be …
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I have just read that Donald Trump denied the Associated Press access to an Oval Office event because it refused to bow before his executive order that the Gulf of Mexico must henceforth be referred to as The Gulf of America. His edict, one must admit, would seem to be the act of a true …
On Feb. 9 The Blaze published an article by Chris Enloe entitled: “Is same-sex marriage about to get the Dodds treatment?” It concerns the effort of various states to overturn the Supreme Court’s Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling which legalized same sex marriage throughout the U.S.. Enloe focuses on the Jan. decision of Idaho’s judiciary to …
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After having accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to meet with him at Mar-A- Lago in January, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, appeared on The View where he was asked to explain his decision. The general thrust of the ladies’ questions was that in visiting Trump he had added legitimacy to this power hungry jerk who …