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Category: Mainstream Media

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Of Local Interest

I live near Los Angeles.  Oftentimes our local news will cover a story of national interest, primarily because Hollywood is here, and those stories are actually of local interest too. Since the election, there has been over a thousand people swearing affidavits that they witnessed or experienced election fraud.  At

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Trapped in a Bubble

I was looking at my Facebook feed yesterday and noticed that someone had posted a link to an MSNBC video titled, “How Do You Govern When Half The Country Is Trapped In A Disinformation Bubble?”  I agree with the title.  But not the content of the video.  The video claimed

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An Open Letter to Biden Supporters

There’s something big happening that you need to be aware of. If you’re watching the mainstream media, you’re being told that Joe Biden won the election.  Even Joe Biden calls himself the “president-elect”.  But it isn’t true.  It might be true some day but it’s not true right now.  There

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The Asterisk Presidency

If Joe Biden manages to win this election, I will never be convinced that he did so fairly.  And I’m not alone. In my totally unscientific approach of just asking people I know who voted for Trump, 100% of the people I asked said that they believe the election was

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The News Media and the Bear

If you’re out hiking and you come across a bear, do you assume that it’s dangerous or do you assume that the bear is friendly until it proves otherwise?  You’re obviously going to assume it’s dangerous.  There are numerous examples of hikers being killed by bears so clearly the potential

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Ignorance vs. Stupidity

I commented on a post a couple of weeks ago and told someone they were ignorant.  She immediately took offense and said I was calling her a name.  But I wasn’t.  If I had said she was stupid, then she’d have been correct.  But I didn’t.   I said she was

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Fact Checking is “Mostly False”

This week, the media claimed that Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) said that fact-checking is a form of censorship. Here’s what he said: “When I use the word ‘censor’ here, I’m meaning blocked content, fact check, or labeled content, or demonetized websites of conservative, Republican, or pro-life individuals or groups or

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Tails, I Lose

As there are two sides to every coin, there are two sides to every issue.  Whatever the issue, it’s likely that someone will agree with it and someone will disagree. My wife and I were watching the news shortly after Biden announced Kamala Harris would be his running mate.  There

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