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Hypocrisy is more common than oxygen in politics. It is the lifeblood of those who strive to hold their opponents up what they not only can’t achieve themselves, but have no interest in holding themselves too either. And “cancel culture” is their weapon of choice. Remember all the talk during the Clinton administration about the “politics of personal destruction”? It was Bill Clinton’s go-to defense against anything – claiming those evil Republicans were simply out to destroy him personally because they hated him. Never mind the facts of the things Bill actually did while in office – perjury over his...

A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. Casey Fountain tells me that the principal of his son's elementary school called the cupcakes "insensitive" -- in light of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. "It disgusted me," he said. "It's vile they lump true American heroes with psychopathic killers." Fountain's wife made a batch of 30 chocolate cupcakes for their son Hunter's classmates at Schall Elementary School in the town of Caro. The 9-year-old helped decorate the treats...

Truth is non-story in 24/7 media culture One of my favorite writers, Walker Percy, is said to have had a one-word sign posted above his desk - "Wait." What a quaint idea. In today's media world, we don't wait. Our 24/7 perpetual news cycle and our cultural insistence on instant gratification have produced a bizarre holographic environment in which we try to piece together truth with fragments of evolving reality that shift and morph according to the tilt of the earth and the slant of sunlight. As a friend recently put it, trying to figure out current events is like...