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Friday, January 10, 2025

So, in the beginning, it kind of seemed like, OK, we should give a little bit of deference to the government and the health authorities on how we should play this. ... But I think that while they're trying to push that program, they also tried to censor anyone who is basically arguing against it, and they pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly were true, right? I mean, they, they basically pushed us and said, you know, "Anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you basically need to take down... And, all these different agencies and branches of government basically just like started investigating and coming after our company. It was brutal.


It isn't uncommon for the sitting president to speak at a state funeral, though what a bummer for Jimmy Carter. Joe Biden's eulogy was mainly a reminder of how different the two men were, particularly when it came to honesty and character. Plenty of comparisons can be made about the policy challenges faced by both administrations: inflation, energy, crime, global disorder. Yet they come with many caveats in Carter's favor. Carter inherited his problems; Mr. Biden created his ... Carter was elected on a promise never to lie to the American people, and he honored it. He was unequal to his governing task, sometimes misguided, but he genuinely wanted to make things better for the country. He was humble, and many forget he once fired half his cabinet in recognition that his administration wasn't getting the job done ... Mr. Biden leaves the Oval Office much as he burst into presidential politics"indulgently, self-servingly, pettily


Tuesday, January 07, 2025

The message was surprising. David Enrich, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, was responding to a question I had sent him about his newspaper's 2018 coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination. The Times had disgraced itself with its abysmal "reporting" on Kavanaugh. Enrich responded in a way that surprised me: "I've spent a lot of time thinking about my role in the Kavanaugh coverage, and I would be happy to talk to you about it at some point. For now, I will just say that I have learned some lessons and would probably do certain things differently next time." Wait ... what? Journalists never admit when they're wrong. About anything. Ever. Yet the substance and tone of his message suggested that of a contrite person who might believe he made mistakes. In my experience, this was an extraordinary statement coming from a reporter at the country's leading newspaper


Sunday, January 05, 2025

The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips' decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.


Unlike any prior nominee for the position, Patel is a harsh critic of the Bureau. In his book Government Gangsters: the Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for our Democracy, he has called for "a new Church Committee," referring to the 1975 congressional hearings overseen by Sen. Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat. The Church Committee exposed, among other things, the FBI's illegal campaign of surveillance and harassment against political and civil-rights leaders, and the CIA's Project MKUltra, in which Americans were unwittingly experimented on with LSD. Not too long ago it was almost exclusively the radical left that made the sorts of criticisms of the FBI and CIA made by Patel, and that remembered the abuses uncovered by the Church Committee.


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