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It seems that the puppet masters over at the Obama place sensed something in the air that pushed them to call up the pre-arranged news-cycle-oxygen-sink a bit early this week: Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire I will leave any "details" beyond the title of the article for you …
Continue reading Tuesday Surprise (That Wasn’t) – Pre-Planned Pseudo-Event Comes Early This Week
Speaking of things that pass under our liberty-loving radar while everyone is focused on the pseudo-event du jour, has anyone been tracking this as reported five days ago now: Armed IRS agents raid Montana gun shop, seize gun purchase records Armed IRS agents seized dozens of boxes of ATF form 4473s from Highwood Creek Outfitters …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – The ‘SQUIRREL!!!’ Edition
Given my near total lack of attention to any corporate media outlets I cannot be totally sure, but I strongly suspect that you didn't get a very big dose of this aspect of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's latest visit to China: One Day After Biden Bent the Knee, the Chinese Thoroughly Embarrass the Biden …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – More Humiliations on the World Stage
Of course, the real question surrounding the case of the magic, uncatchable 'pipe bomber' is: Why were fake bombs planted in the first place? (See relevant posting history here. Or as later cross-posted over a Ricochet here.) But the fact that the authorities, who under any conceivable good faith exercise of the massive powers granted …
Annoyed at having the thorn of Grant pricking his side, [President] Johnson came up with the idea of sending him off on a diplomatic mission to Mexico and bringing Sherman in to take his place. He thought he had devised a clever way to get rid of Grant. Grant refused to go. When Johnson presented …
Continue reading Top Brass – The Honorable and Deserving…and the Not So Much
A little bit of bookkeeping here to properly document on this site a couple of items that went straight to the legacy site due to some laziness on my part over the last couple of weeks. The first featured an post from July 2, 2022: ___ ___ ___ “Trying to make some sense of it all. But I …
Two short items from today’s perusing of the news stick out as "tells" of just how intellectually dishonest the purveyors and enablers of Progressive forced-narrative mass delusional hysteria really are. First, this from a Powerline with THE POST ON THE TWITTER FILES regarding the planted false narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian misinformation …
Continue reading Two Signs – Clarity Finds a Way to Those Willing to See
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. – Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 As a follow-up to the post earlier this morning, I offer the following video of a Munk Debate from November 30, 2022 on: …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook (ADDENDUM)
The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers. - Victor Davis Hanson, December 4, 2022 Well, at least a growing portion of "the public" anyway. Far too many stubbornly choose to remain comfortable in the superficial calm …
Continue reading The Anti-Narrative – Page One of the Corrupt Media Playbook
What could go wrong? The tally is in and four unions have failed to accept the terms on the table. That is, four of the twelve unions that must accept the deal brokered a few months back by "President Ferret Face, three Cabinet secretaries from the most hollow credentialed room of buffoons that can be …
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