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“We don’t need no education” We just need a little better thought control. Remember when you thought our government overlords were the biggest problem? At least they, theoretically, can be voted or - worst case – thrown out. By any means possible As it turns out it’s even harder to depose the entrenched social media tyrants imposing their own limitations on freedom of speech. We’re all well aware of the tyrannical practices of Twitter and Facebook, the biggest and most egregious of the social media behemoths. But even second tier sites like Yelp, the social media crowd sourcing platform, serves...

I’m old enough to remember when Saturday Night Live and Jim Carrey were both funny. It doesn’t seem like that long ago. Oh, well. CNN continues the media’s weird obsession with QAnon. – This has been the strangest part of the entire year in 2020, and that’s saying a ton. The media’s obsession with QAnon, a web-based loose association of people who believe in a bunch of stuff that no one can really describe and that only a tiny fraction of 1% of Americans have even heard of, is truly stunning and frankly inexplicable by any real journalistic practice. Literally...

Thou shalt not mock the left, certainly not with an election looming. In Saturday’s New York Times, tech reporter Kevin Roose talked with Times reporter Emma Goldberg about her previous humor-impaired article regarding The Babylon Bee’s brand of satire, which is controversial among the left and the media because unlike The Onion it mocks political figures and ideas other than Donald Trump and the GOP. Roose’s piece appeared under the hostile but representative headline “How The Babylon Bee, a Right-Wing Satire Site, Capitalizes on Confusion." The paper blurbed Roose's story on Saturday’s front page under the heading “Distortions.” The print...

In a move to implement what he characterized as "a more efficient form of government," Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Penn) has signed on to a multi-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) agreement that will result in higher taxes on the state's inhabitants. This bypasses the state constitution's delegation of the taxing power to the legislature. Wolf explained that "we are in a climate crisis. Waiting for the legislature to act wastes precious time. Rather than let the people of Pennsylvania, the United States, and the world suffer while legislators dither is unacceptable." For its part, a bipartisan majority of the legislature...

Jealous of all the attention Joe Biden is getting for being the most mentally unfit presidential candidate ever, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) went on a tirade while being interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, accusing him and his network colleagues of "always being an apologists for the Republican position." The blow-up occurred after Blitzer asked her "to look Americans in the eye and explain why you don't want to accept the president's latest stimulus offer. Other Democrats like Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif) and former presidential candidate Anrew Yang, are saying that given the harm inflicted by the shutdowns many of...

Colors are at peak right now in many areas of southern lower Michigan. Many things have changed during the 4 years subsequent to the 2016 election; even Michigan’s peak color season. It was later than usual the last time Donald Trump was elected. As yesterday was the last sunny day in the foreseeable future as far as the National Weather Service is concerned, Raj and I decided to take a short road trip through the center of Michigan’s thumb. We had taken a similar trip just before the 2016 election. At the time our spirits were buoyed because - despite...

Christopher Wray is not part of the solution for our country – he’s the problem. – 19 Republican members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to corrupt, worthless FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday, demanding he come clean on why his dumpster fire agency never revealed that it came into possession of the Hunter Biden laptop last December, while President Trump was bein subjected to the Democrat Party’s impeachment hoax. Here’s the letter: Image We speculated here throughout that impeachment hoax that the real reason it was being mounted was as a massive effort by the Democrats and...

In an overheard private chat after the conclusion of ABC's town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, George Stephanopoulos wondered if "there's anything to the whole Hunter email thing? I've seen lot's of commentary, some of it severely critical. What's your take on it—off-the-record of course." "It's already been debunked," Biden replied. "Twitter and Facebook have stricken it from the record. Nobody believes a word of it. Period." "Well, what about the $10 million a year for 'introductions' deal?" Stephanopoulos asked. "That seems a lot of money. Who was Hunter introducing to who?" "What a lot of people don't...

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"Disgusting." She wrote on my Facebook timeline. "I should have known you were not a safe space. Stay the 'eff' out of my life." I was the same kind, funny person the day I expressed my support of President Trump on Facebook as I was the day before. But you'd never know it from the bizarre reaction of the Liberal Snowflake who'd been my Facebook friend...up until that fateful day. With f-words flying, she mumbled from behind her mask, "I should have known you were not a shafe shpace" and flounced out of my gentle cyber world into the real...

All you need to know about last night’s dueling townhalls on ABC and NBC with Joe Biden and President Trump is that Biden was not asked a single question about the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on his and Hunter Biden’s blatant selling of his vice-presidential office to China and Ukraine, and that Savannah Guthrie came at the President of the United States like a screaming banshee who desperately needed a valium or three. No one should have expected anything else. After all, Biden’s puffball hour was conducted by a former Clinton bagman, George Stephanopoulous, and Guthrie is just another...

You don’t sayyyyyyyyyy. – Former Biden intern Steve Scully, who was selected by the anti-Trump Commission on Presidential Debates was suspended “indefinitely” by his employer C-Span yesterday after he was forced to admit that his claim that his Twitter account had been “hacked” was exactly what we all knew it was: A very transparent lie. From a report by the Associated Press: C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about a questionable exchange with former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci. The news came on...

The Dueling Presidential Town Halls: ABC lines up its lapdog on the left to keep lobbing softballs at VP Depends. “I’ll come out with a clear position before Election Day,” “I have not been a fan of court packing … I’m not a fan — but it depends on how it turns out, how it’s handled.” Biden didn't get one question on the Hunter exposé during ABC’s town hall, so thankfully nobody had to clean up that mess. Meanwhile over on the right: Savannah Guthrie stood in for Joe Biden at NBC’s 2nd Presidential debate. Joe still lost. “Savannah Guthrie...

One of government’s most fundamental responsibilities is to protect its citizen’s life liberty and property. It is clear to any intellectually honest person that they have failed in this on many levels; this is intolerable. I am not talking about the riots and bogus shutdowns that are killing small business and people’s livelihood, although that is another failure. I am talking about censorship, identify theft and the permitted invasion of privacy. Twenty-three or so years ago I dated a computer network engineer and she explained the concept of the open and free public internet. She told me how it was...

VIDEO The latest Hunter Biden scandal has exploded via the New York Post into an October Surprise on steroids despite pathetic Social Media attempts to censor it. However, in addition to possibly bringing down his father's (aka the "big guy") campaign, this scandal also had the very beneficial side-effect on the personal level of restoring harmony within my marriage.

Remember Yakov Smirnoff – the comedian who defected from Ukraine in the late 70s and made a career of mocking the difference between communist Russia and capitalist America? He practically invented the Russia Reversal joke: Today it is China that has taken over as the world’s largest suppressor of freedom. In America, we cherish liberty and privacy and expect U.S. companies to respect those values and incorporate them into the products and technologies they create. The CCP (Chinese Communist  Party), on the other hand, has a different set of values and views liberty and privacy as threats rather than rights....

Since Twitter and Facebook are censoring the New York Post’s bombshell stories on Hunter and Joe Biden and their corrupt activities in Ukraine and China, we will focus today’s Roundup on the Post’s new story detailing the Bidens’ looting of China for personal gain. Here is an excerpt from today’s Post headliner: Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show. One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of...

Yesterday was a day on which honest historians will look back and record Twitter and Facebook crossed the line and set themselves onto a path to become regulated as content providers, overtly blocking the dissemination of a true New York Post story containing hugely damaging information about Joe and Hunter Biden. It was the day that both social media giants decided to step directly into the presidential election, overtly intervening in it on behalf of the Biden/Harris campaign. This is a frightening moment for our society, although – thanks to the efforts of the legacy and social media establishment –...

After its "Kickstarter" campaign surged past its target to raise $15,000 and reached a surprising total of $200,000, FCTRY, a Brooklyn-based product design company, now has the funds to produce and market two new unorthodox "action" figures that it hopes will thrill children everywhere. The two figures are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and NIAID Director at the National Institutes of Health Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Pelosi figure comes in either a pink or blue dress with a removable face mask. The Fauci figure has a white coat and a removable mask. The inspiration for the Pelosi figure was "her untiring...