‘I Can’t Breathe’ — the Tragedy Inflicted on Officer Derek Chauvin by a Rush-to-Judgment Media

Five years ago today, an arrest incident involving a person named George Floyd grabbed international headlines when the only videos or photos shown were those of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin pinning the arrestee to the ground using a perfectly permissible knee-and-neck hold. Chauvin was later convicted of murdering Floyd. The coroner, however, concluded that Floyd did not die of […]

In All His Senility, Maybe Biden Was/Is Crazy Like the Proverbial Fox

There’s no denying that Presidential Surrogate Joe Biden suffers both cognitive and physical decay and challenges, like falling down stairs and shaking imaginary hands. But, as New York Post Columnist Miranda Davine pointed out on Fox News, in the Robert Hur Interview Biden managed to dissemble and souind idiotic the most when he was asked incriminating questions. “Did you know […]

Axios Obtains Biden-Hur Interview Tape Segments but Downplays Them; Major Media Ignore It All

Yesterday, the mainstream meda, including the Wall Street Journal, refused to report on a former FBI director, James Comey, who figuratively and no doubt knowlingly called for the assassination of Donald Trump by posting a photo of seashells arranged to show “8647” — take Trump eight miles out and bury him six feet under. Today, Axios obtained segments of the […]

A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell the Same, but What About How We Pronounce a Word?

Shakespeare famously noted that “A rose by any other name would smell the same,” which is probably not something anyone would argue over, or disagree with. However, President Trump spent today in Qatar, which got me musing over the pronunciation of that country’s name. Almost everyone on American television pronounces it “Cut-ter,” but I heard a high mucky-muck in Qatar, […]

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