Blue v. Red
The day after Joe Biden talked about “tens of millions of American citizens like they’re vermin” (as J.D. Vance put it), his Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, took to MSNBC to issue a dire warning: “The threat over the last 20 years has evolved,” Mayorkas said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We were, of course, in…
That’s my summary of the last line of Kevin Williamson’s reflections on Rolling Stone’s fake story about Oklahoma emergency rooms filling up with ivermectin overdoses: A note to our progressive friends: This is your version of Q-Anon — falling for obvious, ridiculous lies because you want to believe the worst about people you hate. The biggest difference…
In the Valley Breeze, Erika Sanzi writes about a relatively recent practice of Rhode Island school districts that has bothered me since the state Department of Education injected it into our system some years ago: the policy for teachers and school officials to deliberately lie to parents as the system helps a child to “transition” from…
Conservatives have long seen in The Matrix as an allegory for the totalitarian takeover of our society. You’ve grown up in a world of intrinsic deception so thorough that you cannot tell that it isn’t simply reality. Still, there are sometimes glitches and a pervasive feeling that something isn’t quite right. So, you must make a…
… noting that the “country would be on fire” if the skin colors (and ideologies) were reversed, Glenn Reynolds asks, “So why isn’t it?” Well, apart from the fact that conservatives are more law-abiding and not trying to undermine the country, the establishment has displayed the rules since January 6. Left-wing rioting is just free speech. …
That’s the subject of my latest article for Accuracy in Media. The Highlander Institute’s radicalism can be seen in a review of its Twitter stream. For example, the organization provided the only retweet for a tweet by Dinah Becton-Consuegra of the Kapor Center in Oakland, California, which says: “We are a country founded on racist ideas,…
Dan McGowan reports for the Boston Globe that the Glocester School Committee is going to consider suing the Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education over its implicit statewide mask mandate: Governor Dan McKee subsequently declared a new state of emergency related to Delta variant of the coronavirus, and issued an executive order requiring masks in…
The amazing thing, when government officials establish a religion, is that everything becomes clear and easy. Through a clerisy, their god (even if it is an undefined Great Progressive Spirit) tells them what is right and wrong, and they simply conform the law to those requirements. Anybody who believes differently has to put their beliefs…
An article bylined by Alexandra Leslie and Melanie DaSilva for WPRI is a perfect illustration. The headline is, “McKee signs multiple bills supporting women’s health, equity.” No ambiguity. No clarification that this is politicians’ intention. It’s presented as a simple fact about the press conference. The article summarizes five pieces of legislation without offering a…
They say of the Soviet Union propaganda outlet, Pravda, that it contained some real news; one just had to know how to parse it and understand where news was being hidden. Such is the case with all of the mainstream news media outlets, these days. You’ve probably seen the headlines about “74% of infections in Massachusetts…