Trying to engage in rational debate online often seems to be an exercise doomed to futility. It’s not just the rabid tribalism that has infected public discourse, on all sides and at all levels, but the growing impossibility to even agree on basic facts. A great deal of the
The Babylon Bee has a reputation for presenting tomorrows news as today’s satire. It seems that nothing is too outlandish as Bee satire that it won’t end up as a headline within just a few months. For instance, the Bee ran a story that claimed that public school
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If a white man with an extensive history of criminal violence, a literal rap sheet of racist invective, who was a supporter of a violent, extremist ideology, deliberately ran down a crowd of black people having a street party, killing dozens, how long do you think the media would wait
Jane Menton manhattancontrarian.com The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has given us an unusual opportunity to contrast uncontestable facts as shown on many video recordings with an endlessly repeated media narrative that seems to exist in an alternate reality. To my amazement, even after two full weeks of livestreamed trial, most
William L. Anderson mises.org William L. Anderson is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and professor of economics at Frostburg State University. He earned his MA in economics from Clemson University and his PhD in economics from Auburn University, where he was a Mises Research Fellow. To the relief
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Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire Darlings of the political Left in Washington (USA) and Wellington (New Zealand) have been nominated for consideration for the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. Joe Biden and Jacinda Ardern have been duking it out through 2021 in the specialist economic space of Quickest
As the old saying goes, “be careful what you wish for”. San Francisco’s Bay Area, the most perhaps the “progressive” area of the most deep-blue Democrat state in America, is getting what it wished for. I wonder how they’re enjoying it? Another mob of looters targeted several
Gabriel Andrade mercatornet.com Gabriel Andrade is assistant professor of medicine at Ajman University, in the United Arab Emirates. He received a PhD from University of Zulia (Venezuela), in 2008. He worked as Titular Professor at University of Zulia from 2005 to 2015, teaching courses on the Humanities, and writing
They say you can tell about someone lot by the company they keep — I suspect you can tell even more by the company they don’t. So, I’m sort of proud to say that I was suspended many times from Facebook, before I was banned permanently. One of my
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Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com A very interesting interview with Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association. During a House Transportation Committee hearing on supply chain issues, CEO Chris Spear shares an internal survey showing that 37% of truck drivers “not only said no, but said hell no” to
John Rofe Dear proven liars, To be kind, I guess the main reason for the lies is laziness. You take as gospel whatever the following-named news outlets provide you with. In the process, you destroy your own credibility and the credibility of those in power in New Zealand. CNN,
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. A Wisconsin jury on Friday reached a verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, finding the teen not guilty on all counts, including homicide charges. America loves nothing more than a
Has Joe Biden said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Kyle?” Of course, he hasn’t: Biden has a son, and we know more than we ever wanted about what he looks like (warning!). But I pose the question, of course, in relation to Biden’s old
