Mind Games: How They Play Us; Part III

Mind Games: How They Play Us; Part III — You’re Not as Smart as You Think: The Psychology of Being Easily Played (and the Way Out) Here’s where we get honest: The biggest vulnerability in this whole system isn’t the internet. It isn’t Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Congress, or the Russians. It’s your brain. You are …

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Journolism: Are There No Mirrors at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism?

Jim Friedlich is Chief Executive Officer and executive director of the Leftist, oops, sorry, Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the nonprofit organization that owns what I have sometimes called The Philadelphia Enquirer¹. In Wednesday morning’s newspaper, he is “Giving thanks — and offering up a prayer — for America’s free press: On this, more than any …

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The Real Story Behind the Gettysburg Handshake

We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.

I Check Bluesky So You Don’t Have To

Lex McMenamin (they/them) describes himself¹ in his Bluesky biography as: permanent Philadelphian in NYC, opinions mine WAS politics @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin elsewhere linktr.ee/leximcmenamin As you can see, Mr McMenamin, who puts plural pronouns in his signature line on Bluesky, is going to be a flaming liberal, as the list of his online articles shows. …

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Democrisy: The Left Said That No One is Above the Law, Right Up Until the Law Impacted the People They Favored.

Our good friends on the left spent much of the Biden Administration years telling us what Senator Dick Durbin did in a tweet pictured to the right, telling us that no one is above the law. Letitia James said the same thing, many times, in her witch hunt against then-former President Trump, yet, today, she’s …

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