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  • ‘American Capitalism’ Is the Enemy

    ‘American Capitalism’ Is the Enemy0

    Sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement, cities across the United States went up in flames last year, beset with looters, agitators, and killers. As leaves, and ashes, fell softly last autumn, homicide rates began to soar nationwide as $1 billion-plus in claims registered on the insurance industry’s books, making these riots the most destructive in American history.  Even so,

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  • The Trauma of Her Moral Highness, AOC

    The Trauma of Her Moral Highness, AOC0

    The insufferable Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was in the news again, having discoursed at length on social media about her experience during the bizarre events in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The video showcases what she does best: talk lugubriously about herself and all the things that are causing her pain and suffering. Here’s

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  • The Curious Warnings of Kipling’s ‘Copybook Headings’

    The Curious Warnings of Kipling’s ‘Copybook Headings’1

    I can’t claim to be much of a poetry buff, but upon seeing a footnote reference to a poem called “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” I was too intrigued to ignore it. Upon hunting down a copy, I found 10 stanzas of verse written by Rudyard Kipling in 1919. The “copybook headings” featured in

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  • Who Are the True ‘Domestic Terrorists’?

    Who Are the True ‘Domestic Terrorists’?0

    “Never allow a good crisis (to) go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.” Thus did chief of staff Rahm Emanuel advise Barack Obama on the financial crisis he inherited in 2009.            Following the Capitol riot by a mob of pro-Donald Trump protesters,

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  • The Rules of Debate No Longer Work

    The Rules of Debate No Longer Work0

    Gun rights activist Dana Loesch recently complained that she had been denied the right to respond to her critics on Twitter, according to a story reported in the New York Post. Unlike her adversaries, who are free to swing away at her, Loesch is not allowed to use Twitter’s fact-checking platform to correct their misstatements.

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  • The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation

    The Dingbat Craziness of the Latest PETA Proclamation0

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Each morning’s internet headlines bring a new version of crazy. This morning was no different. In her article “PETA: Using Animal Names as Verbal Insults Is Supremacist Language,” Catherine Smith reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is decrying the use of insults and anti-animal slurs

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