The Spectacle
- Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty, Paul Manafort Found Guilty
- Greatgate: The Questions That Still Need to Be Asked
- Can Finn Save Sin City?
- The Kentucky Pension Screw
- Dems’ Desperate Ploy for Slice of Pai
- Deep State Failure: John Brennan Down and Out
- For British Politicians Corbyn and Johnson, Words Speak Louder Than Actions
- The Low Down on Big Tech’s Troubles
- Deceit in Dhaka
- Good Times, Bad Times, You Know I Had My Share
- Chicago May Finance Pensions
- Carbon Tax Bill Finds Few Friends
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Should Americans Give Mainstream Media the Silent Treatment?
Once upon a time, the American people trusted the mainstream media, and vice-versa. Back when Walter Cronkite was the “nation’s newsman,” most Americans felt confident that networks and newspapers reported “the facts” — at least most of the time. Even 20 years ago, a majority of Americans had trust and confidence in the mass media “to report […]
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Washington Rick Gates is to political consultant Paul Manafort what Omarosa Manigault Newman is to President Donald Trump. Gates is the 46-year-old former right-hand man to Manafort, who, in exchange for a lesser sentence, testified against his former boss during the first jury trial resulting from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in […]
John Brennan, a Security Risk from the Start
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The grand jury report in that Pennsylvania child rape case involving several hundred Catholic priests which surfaced last week is, as Michael Brendan Dougherty termed it at NRO Wednesday, a Rotherham for the Church. But unlike Rotherham, a case in which a ring of Muslim pedophiles and rapists latched on to local ethnic English girls […]
Never That Great, Huh?
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