To paraphrase the great H. L. Mencken, for any and every event that happens, the legacy media will invariably latch onto an explanation that is “neat, plausible, and wrong”. Lately, the legacy media have an all-purpose, no-thinking-needed explanation for absolutely anything and everything: racism! In the case of the horrifying
Michael Ippolito newsbusters.org Michael Ippolito is a senior politics major at the Catholic University of America studying politics and history from New Jersey. Michael Ippolito is the president of his college republican chapter and former treasurer of his Young Americans For Freedom chapter. Michael enjoys reading, lifting weights, and
The more we learn about the two recent mass shootings that have grabbed so much attention in America, the more awkward questions are raised. For instance, why did no-one sound the alarm about a teenager who was posting online pictures of themselves butchering a cat, and asking family members to
A few days ago, I asked, Did Cops Stand By at Uvalde? At the time, information was limited, but it was already apparent from bystander video that police milled around at a safe distance from the school while the gunman murdered dozens of children at his leisure. In the days
There is nothing more creepy than a handsy older man pawing a much younger woman. Yet our media focussed on the fact that Jacinda Ardern managed to have a meeting at the White House rather than any substance coming out of that meeting, or the rather creepy behaviour of Joe
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Information Opinion Chris Trotter has done it again – *sigh* – just when I thought he was making a whole lot of sense he drops a clanger of an article that makes me shake my head. In his latest contribution on The BFD he states: “… It certainly was not a guarantee of
Michael Rectenwald mises.org Michael Rectenwald is the author of 11 books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. As should be clear by now, Francis Fukuyama’s declaration in The End of History: The Last Man
Twitter’s original slogan was “Tell us what you really think.” Reading some people’s tweets, you often have to ask yourself: what the hell were they thinking? Twitter has become notorious for ruining people over a single, thoughtless tweet. Usually, they’re low-level former nobodies, mindlessly thumbing out their
It’s not for nothing that the very first of my Three Laws of the Media is: Never believe a headline. Stuff (big surprise!) just provided a masterclass exercise in just why you should never believe a legacy media headline (or indeed, pretty much anything the legacy media says). US
John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post and the American Conservative. The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has just ended.
I had planned on avoiding writing about the Uvalde school shooting entirely. At this point, let’s face it, nobody’s going to change their mind either way, so why bother? But a new detail has emerged about the mass murder which almost beggars belief. Almost – because we’ve seen
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. You would have to be insane not to want some form of gun control after 10 days in which 10 people were gunned down in Buffalo, a church service attacked in San Francisco with
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Is the “Disney Effect” the beginning of the end for corporate wokeness? The Mega-Mouse has lost tens of billions in value in the wake of devastating leaks about its plans to insert LGBQWTIA+ (or whatever the Alphabet People are saying these days) “representation” into all of its products for kiddies,
