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January 23, 2025
It’s Time to Cleanse the White House Press CorpsSomewhere in the bowels of the CNN Building in Atlanta is a video clip that has been on file since the channel began in 1980. The footage is of a military band performing “Nearer My God To Thee.” The explicit instructions are that this pa...
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September 27, 2022
About those Obama classified records in the Chicago-area furniture warehouse...It almost sounds like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie: a dusty warehouse. The smell of must permeating the air. The only sound the scurrying of the occasional rat. And entombed within it, thousands of boxes upon boxes, practical...
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July 25, 2022
Slouching Towards FantasylandEarlier this month, the people of Sri Lanka showed the world what real insurrection looks like. The reason: they’re starving. The cause: disastrous farming policies enforced by that country’s government, ostensibly to counter ...
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February 24, 2021
And then they came for the Muppets...If you want to catch Johnny Cash singing "Ghost Riders in the Sky" with a posse of puppets, you'd better act fast. The Man in Black could get away with uttering the word "Hell" on The Muppet Show. He...
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February 16, 2021
Canceling Gina Carano: Work Worthy of an Evil EmpireLucasfilm’s firing of Gina Carano may go down as one of the more 'textbook' examples of public relations blunders. This past week the studio and its umbrella company Disney detached from Carano, following the latest in a...
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December 19, 2020
Must We Respect a Fraudulent President?In Georgia this past week, Joe Biden rallied a handful of voters in support of Georgia’s Democratic candidates for the United States Senate. The venue was an Atlanta warehouse parking lot that could have passed for scenery from The Walkin...
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December 10, 2019
The Fall of the Deep State and 1989’s Fall of CommunismThe collapse of the figurative and literal wall between East and West Germany was chief among the upheavals in those final weeks of 1989. Not even a year out of office and Reagan was magnificently proven correct in his understanding of basic hu...
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December 8, 2019
Six Months at an Amazon Fulfillment CenterHaving spent half of a year experiencing firsthand the labyrinthine bowels of an Amazon Fulfillment Center, I must ask: “What are all the complaints about?” Employment at Amazon was not perfect. Then again, no job will be....
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September 25, 2018
There's Poisoning the Well, and Then There's Borking the WellAnita Hill is coming to Elon University. The ol' alma mater already lost my contributions earlier this year – a consequence of Wired revealing that one of Elon's computer professors is an Antifa activist who has been compiling a mas...
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September 3, 2018
The Pursuit of Happiness in the Trump EconomyHis life started on a dairy farm. Apart from a stint in the United States Navy, he spent the better part of the next five decades eking out a modest sustenance from milk production. Then come the summer of ‘85, a young boy was kille...
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July 19, 2018
The InthinkablesAnd so another notch is marked on the belt of political correctness. This time, it's Papa John himself. John Schnatter has been excommunicated from the company he began in the broom closet of his father's tavern. ...
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July 7, 2018
Frankenstein's Body PoliticYield Mary Shelley a kind eye. The first science-fiction novelist had no precedent in avoiding engineering errors. Such was never the point. Shelley's motive was to probe the persona rather than postulate the poss...
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June 10, 2018
The Revolution Will Not Be FinalizedDisney analysts are tabulating all angles on why Solo failed to hit light speed at the box office. Was it because of "franchise fatigue" less than six months after the previous Star Wars film? The movie's troubled ...