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This is a reasonably thorough review of the conflict and the media coverage of it. Originally written in 2014 but completely applicable today.
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Tierney does a particularly good job of critiquing Facebook’s “fact-checking”, which is really a form of censorship. He shows good examples. If Facebook wants to censor(let’s not confuse what they do with fact checking), they should be treated legally as publishers and be subject to the same laws as other publishers.
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Remember when Trump’s claim of the virus being loosed on the world by a lab in Wuhan, China was called a “debunked conspiracy theory” and dismissed by establishment scientists, the U.S. press and mainstream media and blocked from Twitter and Facebook?. Why that reaction? Well, I think it was because it was claimed by Trump and Trump could never be right.
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This is the English version of the Hamas charter as prepared by the Law Library of Yale Law School. Anyone who believes peace is possible with Hamas is delusional. Hamas is the elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza and, if elections are ever again held in the West Bank, they would win there as well. To be clear, the want to eliminate the state of Israel and its Jewish population. They believe this is a matter of religion in which any land ever under Muslim domination is always a Muslim land.
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McCarthy writes another clear, incisive essay on how race demagogues vilify police and “white privilege” as the racial problem in our country.
Less Than Meets the Eye How admissions officers could be setting up minority students for failure by James Piereson Naomi Schaefer Riley Manhattan Institute City Journal May 4, 2021 Admissions officers around the country can hardly contain themselves. With their schools seeing record numbers of applications and acceptances for minority students, they […]
Biden’s Not-So-Clean Energy Transition The International Energy Agency exposes the hidden environmental costs and infeasibility of going green. By Mark P. Mills Wall Street Journal May 11, 2021 The International Energy Agency, the world’s pre-eminent source of energy information for governments, has entered the political debate over whether the U.S. should spend trillions of dollars to […]
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Teaching children that all people should be judged as individuals, regardless of their race is great. Teaching children that the U.S. is systematically racist as a nation and that racism is illustrated and amplified by “white privilege” is both wrong in fact and divisive as hell.
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Janet Yellen, Biden’s Treasury Secretary knows the higher corporate tax rates Biden wants will reduce American competitive ability to compete globally. Her answer to this is to get other countries to raise their corporate taxes. To achieve this objective she seems willing to give international bodies the ability to determine our tax rates. It is an awful policy direction; one that I hope fails.
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Heather Mac Donald writes another piece about how the desire for diversity is resulting in lower levels of competence in Biden’s government. This example is only one of many in this administration.