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  • Warnings and Threats—or Bluster and Bluff

    Warnings and Threats—or Bluster and Bluff0

    Before the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a side trip to Georgia and Ukraine. Purpose: Assure these nations that America has their back and encourage their hopes of future admission to NATO. Austin, said the Pentagon, would tell both nations there is an “open door to NATO.”  “Ukraine

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  • War with North Korea Would Be Sheer Madness

    War with North Korea Would Be Sheer Madness0

    The war drums are beating again, this time for the Korean peninsula. And if a conflict occurs, no one believes it would be a cakewalk. Total casualties almost certainly would be in the hundreds of thousands; the destruction throughout highly industrialized South Korea would be unimaginable. It is a sequel no sane person wants to

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  • War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News

    War of the Worlds: How the Media “Creates” News0

    Last Friday marked the anniversary of Orson Welles’ famous radio play War of the Worlds, which used news bulletins to tell of an alien invasion on American soil. Like many Americans, I first heard this story as a little girl and was fascinated by the mass hysteria which supposedly broke out across the country when

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  • War Is Not Just a Western Notion

    War Is Not Just a Western Notion0

    It is well that war is so terrible; otherwise, we should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee “Wars and rumors of wars,” to borrow a well-known Biblical phrase from Matthew 24, seem all too commonplace these days. Is that because more wars are going on now than in the past, or because

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  • WaPo Paints a Grim Picture of America’s ‘Abortion Deserts’ … or Not?

    WaPo Paints a Grim Picture of America’s ‘Abortion Deserts’ … or Not?0

    As the world awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, America’s media has been colouring in the details of an apocalyptic landscape without access to abortion. It’s terrifying, or, to be more precise, TERRIFYING. Article after article argues that poor women will be denied lifestyle choices, be sicker and sink even deeper

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  • WaPo Outraged Americans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers

    WaPo Outraged Americans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers0

    Social scientists have been trying for many years to blame homicides on the presence of guns. A favorite tool in this quest is the use of studies that show a correlation between gun ownership and crime. These studies are then reported as “evidence” that the presence of guns causes crime. But there’s always been a

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