Politics

The Double Standard of Facebook’s Hate Group List 0
- Politics
- November 11, 2021
Poor Facebook. America’s adjudicator of public dialogue is unpopular with just about everyone these days. For those on the left, it was Frances Haugen’s leak about Facebook’s apparent lack of speech controls for Third World users. For those on the right, it was the leak of the company’s so-called “dangerous individuals and organizations” list. This latter
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Did Glasgow Deliver ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’?0
- Politics
- November 9, 2021
At the end of the first week of the Glasgow climate summit, 100,000 protesters marched to denounce the attendees as phonies who will never honor their commitments to curb carbon emissions. Despite pledges by 100 nations to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030, and by 20 nations, including the U.S., to end financing
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Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign 0
- Politics
- November 4, 2021
If you want a glimpse of modern propaganda at work, you need look no further than the trends that grace the Twitter sidebar. I started watching them more seriously a few months ago when some of the headlines about COVID-related issues sounded far more certain—or perhaps arrogant is the better word—than it seemed they plausibly
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Duking It Out in Virginia 0
- Politics
- November 1, 2021
Virginia has a long history as a battleground. In 1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered to a combined force of French and American troops at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively bringing an end to the Revolutionary War. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces fought each other all over the state. You
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Who Decides What Kids Should Be Taught?0
- Politics
- October 29, 2021
Virginia is a newly blue state, with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators, that Joe Biden won by 10 points. Hence, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe was an early and solid favorite to regain the office he vacated in 2017. But if McAuliffe loses Tuesday, the defeat will be measured on the Richter scale. For
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The Religious Exemption Trap 0
- Politics
- October 27, 2021
Beginning in September, hospital administrators across the country began threatening to fire health care workers who had not received the so-called COVID vaccine. They claimed to be complying with the Biden administration’s fake mandate, which is actually a press release without the force of law. A large majority of those workers have already received the shots
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