Political Smears in 2022 are Tame Compared with the Past

As the 2022 midterm elections draw ever nearer, the slurs and mud-slinging are picking up. Liberals are calling conservatives domestic terrorists and white supremacists. Conservatives are calling liberals leftist lunatics and depraved communists. Pretty nasty stuff, right? Not really, not when you look at the kind of mudslinging gutter politics that existed in the 19th …

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The Journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

No, I didn’t misspell the word in the title: the spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias. I have noted, many times, that black lives …

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Chris Cuomo Considered Volunteer Firefighter Position; Balked After Interview With Fire Chief

In case anyone was wondering what former CNN host Chris Cuomo has been up to since he was fired last December, according to a scoop from The Daily Beast, he considered becoming a volunteer firefighter with the East Hampton (New York) Fire Department earlier this year. In fact, he was said to be “eager” to …

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Cigarettes and Seat Belts On the Road to Health Fascism

Greetings my fellow Americans! While I’ve striven with most of my AFNN posts thus far to focus more on how we may actually move forward as believers in unalienable rights endowed by our Creator, I thought it worthwhile to reflect upon and examine how we’ve reached the state of affairs in which we find ourselves …

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When a Media Outlet Can Decide a Presidency Is Over, It Has Too Much Power

The liberal media has been moving away from the practice of journalism for years. Once Donald Trump arrived on the scene, it was abandoned altogether. The media collectively embraced activism. And the New York Times has led the way. The extraordinary power of the Times to not only influence events, but to shape events, cannot …

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Stephen King Gets Fact-Checked; Blames It All on Salon

Best-selling horror novelist Stephen King was forced to apologize to his 6.7 million followers on Twitter over a false story he had posted on July 6 about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The following day, a left-leaning fact check site judged King’s post to be false. In a now deleted tweet, King wrote that DeSantis had signed a …

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Six Killed in Highland Park Shooting, and Everybody Knows About It; Ten Killed in Philly, and No One Cares.

This morning’s news is all about the shootings in Highland Park, Illinois, at a Fourth of July parage, allegedly committed by Robert Chimo III, who was arrested without incident. The left, of course, concluded that because he surrendered and was arrested alive, he was the recipient of some kind of ‘white privilege.’ But, while Mr …

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For Print Newspapers, Tempus is Fugiting

The solution to being 18th century technology is not becoming 19th century one-party newspapers! Mickey East, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky during the 1970s, when I was a student there, used a bastardized phrase to encourage his students to get their work done, “Tempus is fugiting.” According to Wikipedia, the expression …

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