Succumbing to Sixty Years of Propaganda

Succumbing to Sixty Years of Propaganda “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell Greetings my fellow Americans! Regardless of the sensibility, or lack thereof, of anything uttered in public by any member of the non-defunct House Unamerican Activities Committee, or by …

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Founding Principles – Freedom of Speech

While watching and listening to the Biden team’s continued efforts to enlist Big Tech as propaganda and/or censorship tools, the only thing missing from their promotion of that policy, was the clarification that “it is the right thing to do!!” I was beside myself, immediately sat down and started this missive, for that announcement is …

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The Daily News

Walter Cronkite

As children we knew our father meant business when he turned the television on at 5 p.m.  That was the time for local news.  If we had anything to say, we went to our rooms.  Nobody Interrupted the news.  Then at six, the all -important national news came on and was never missed at our …

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If It Sounds Too Bad to be True, It Probably Is (Part 3)

Schadenfreude (shäd′n-froi″də) – 1) Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others; 2) Malicious enjoyment derived from observing some else’s misfortunes; 3) delight in another person’s misfortune.  – Source: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. Greetings my fellow Americans! From the differing camera angles and lighting in the Nixon-Kennedy debate of 1960 to the …

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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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Honest Reporters. Cherish Them Because They Are Rare.

     A short while back, I wrote a comment to Elizabeth Vaughn’s piece about “Intel Leaks Point to Deeper US Involvement…” It was meant to expand what I think is going on, and how honest journalists, the few there are, are trying to get the truth out. Glen Greenwald is one of those journalists. …

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