…is non-essential.
She’s worse than non-essential.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Goodbye, Meritocracy
..Hello…what?
We certainly aren’t well served by the current college-admissions process, but there is also too much pressure to get a subpar (at best) education for the actual purpose of getting a credential.
BoJo’s Government
…gives the Times a thorough fisking.
I agree with Glenn. Trump should have someone do this with the American media, instead of just tweeting; as an official government document (as opposed to blogs) it would be much harder for them to rebut or ignore.
Regulations, Post-Virus
The burden of proof should be on those who want to reimpose them.
Lexington And Concord
Two and a quarter centuries ago, it was where the rubber met the road. And it was the cause of the Second Amendment, which never had anything to do with hunting.
Not Only No…
But hell, no. Illinois Dems are demanding a pension bailout from the rest of the country.
Actually, $10B would be cheap to force them to revert to territory status. They could come back in in pieces; upstate and down.
Why No One Trusts The Media
Want More Trump?
Because bashing the lock-down protesters is a great way to get more Trump.
Another Obama Presidency?
The Great Depression
The media continues to peddle BS history about it (unfortunately, because it was what they were taught in government schools).
It was sad to see Emily Compagno the other day on The Five say that FDR was elected to deal with Hoover’s “inaction.” So even conservatives believe this nonsense.
Hoover’s policies were disastrous, but they were the very opposite of inaction, and he was the furthest thing from laissez faire. If Coolidge had had a third term, likely the economy would have recovered within a year. Hoover created the depressions, but FDR made it great.
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Our garbage media.
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A review of Amity Schlaes’s new book on how poverty won the war on poverty, including some of the history of the Depression.
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In reading that history, I had not known that Walter Reuther had sponsored the Port Huron Statement (I lived sixty miles west, in Flint) at the time. It reminded me of a post I wrote early in my blogging career, almost two decades ago now (where did the years go?) about my brief period as a junior-high campus radical.