Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Trump, Obama, and Bill Clinton were all in the news on Thursday. Trump’s the Good, Obama’s the Bad, and Bill Clinton is the really, really Ugly. What a day for news, with three presidents making headlines. In my mind, the stories break down into “the Good, the Bad, and the
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America no longer constrains the powerful from indulging in their lust for control or their desire for perversion, putting us in great danger. I like listening to Andrew Klavan’s podcasts when I walk my dog. Instead of merely rehashing news stories, he offers a philosophical perspective informed by his journey
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A discussion with a friend about “Q” dovetailed perfectly with my awareness that we have lately been inundated by reports about pedophiles. It’s not just Jeffrey Epstein. Long before Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve been aware of a rising tide of stories about pedophiles. I’ve had all sorts of questions. Is this
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Does Lt. Colonel Vindman’s uniform signal a slo-mo military coup and shouldn’t we be praising Trump for fighting corruption? (Plus a few more things.) (For those of you keeping track, this is the companion post to my No. 32 Bookworm Podcast.) On October 28 of this year, I wrote a
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In this Bookworm Podcast, I examine LTC Vindman and his uniform signaling a military coup; Trump’s laudable war against foreign corruption; and much more. My latest podcast is up and running. You can listen to it through the audio embed below, or at LibSyn, or through Apple Podcasts. In this podcast I
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On a Project Veritas video, Amy Robach gripes that ABC sat on the “Epstein and his friends” story for three years (and Epstein didn’t kill himself). I’m sure all of you are familiar with David Burge’s brilliant and timeless tweet from 2013: “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a
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I really had meant to avoid Jeffrey Epstein cartoons, but I found so many of them, I couldn’t resist — plus more clever and funny stuff to start your week.
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America is a divided country in part because half of Americans live in a fantasy land, predicated on fear and gossip, and entirely unrelated to reality. (This is a companion post to the No. 7 Bookworm Room Podcast, which is embedded at the bottom of this post, or which you
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My sense is that Jeffrey Epstein will not hurt Trump, even if Epstein names names, because Trump is all about stopping pedophiles, not being one. I first learned about Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking when I saw this tweet from News-weak: I found News-weak’s framing to be interesting, to
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