It seems it was a bit over a year ago when we were assured by the FBI that the FBI only had something like six operatives on the ground at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 (or was it one active operative and a handful of agents?)...and now it turns out there were really more …
Month: September 2025
‘I come to respect the rights of all loyal citizens’
Some might find it interesting that I came across this little tale from American history while reading just before sunrise today: In early September 1861, Kentucky still hung on to its neutrality . ... On the morning of September 5, Grant received a spy [...who...] informed him that Confederate general Gideon Pillow had broken Kentucky's …
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Still Uncovering the ‘Perfumed Garbage’ Dropped on We the People by the Fully Corrupt Biden Administration
I tend to hold a grudge. Proper maintenance of this personality trait leads me to watch The Big Short about once a year to refresh memories and refocus angers of that time when my 401K dropped by about 38% because of such foolishness. (Around the same time each year I also tend to pull out …
Progressive Pols and their Monster – The Assassination Jubilation Edition (UPDATED)
Based on my more focused observations since the mid-1980s, I tend to place the beginning of the Intellectually Un-Serious Era in America to shortly after Bill Clinton announced his run for the Presidency in late 1991. Somewhere around then is when the corporate media gave up all journalistic objectivity and went all-in for one political …
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Cynical Curiosity around Conveniently Distractive Hoaxes
Just so it doesn't go un-noted during the still snowballing rightful national outrage surrounding the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, I just want to put this question out there: What are the odds that the day after the assassination, after the better part of that prior day's news cycle was filled with growing volume and …
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Case Study of a Modern Media Figure as an Activist Merely Mimicking the Mannerisms of a Journalist
These truly are interesting times. This week we witnessed one very public self-outing by a semi-major influencer / media-type as he admitted that he is, and has always been, an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.1 (Maybe I do overstate the extent of the admission, but I thought it overly rude to presume …
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