The Mainstream Media laid the groundwork blame for the D.C. rioting. Through four years they relentlessly pursued a single-minded goal: to take down the fairly-and-squarely democratically elected presidency of Donald Trump. Towards that end, they escalated non-stories into major “news”…
Back in the days when I knew everything worth knowing, I practiced the newspaper trade — which was the reason I knew everything worth knowing. See, we journalists are smart. We ooze intelligence and wisdom. We know what’s what. And…
Newspapers: No Longer Businesses, But Arm Candy for Billionaires Weep not for the impending death of the mainstream media; the medical examiner will rule it a suicide. Make that double suicide, a theoretical impossibility. Business annals are filled with the…
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Dear Matthew, I realize that I don’t put pen to paper often when communicating with you, but I think now is a good time to do so again. You recall my last missive when you started your first day at…
While watching Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefing last Saturday, my 92-year-old stepfather, Juan, made a curious observation. “The 21st century started this year,” he said. Juan has lived through many of the conflicts in modern history: World War II, the…
If Hyphen Cortez is correct, you will never read this because the world will have ended before the annual American Spectator gala. Either the glaciers of Greenland will have melted and ruined the reams of pulp on which this essay is…
There has been widespread reporting of the civil lawsuit for $100 million being brought by attorney Larry Klayman on behalf of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin almost eight years ago. At the core of the…
“Millergate” seems to have come and gone due to a commendable showing of huevos from White House brass. To be sure, apart from the evidence clearly not fitting the thought-crime — that is, emails from Miller pitching “anti-immigrant” stories to Breitbart News — the clearly…