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The pro-Palestinian protests outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, were “mostly peaceful,” the Chicago Tribune proclaimed in a Monday headline despite multiple arrests being made. The headline echoed a CNN chyron from the 2020 cycle: “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting.” This line came during a report that showed a building engulfed in flames amid violent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. You cannot make this up… A CNN reporter is standing in front of a building engulfed in flames and CNN's chyron reads: "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING" pic.twitter.com/4OHvKnh63u — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull)...

Media malpractice has come full circle in Kenosha, Wis. ... From the start, the media misrepresented the Blake case and ensuing riots. They portrayed Blake as an unarmed man who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, subjected to police brutality due to racism. The truth was far different. After an intensive investigation, prosecutors declared Blake’s shooting a justifiable use of force. The federal Justice Department reached the same conclusion. ... As with the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis and beyond, the mainstream media incessantly focused away from the violence, despite almost 20 related...

CNN has been there from the beginning, always running toward the important stories and absolutely never covering them up. We went through CNN's archives and dug up these 14 headlines they published while covering some of the most significant events of human history. They are truly a bastion of truth and honesty in journalism. 2348 BC: Watery But Mostly Peaceful Flood Destroys Earth 1025 BC: David Circumcises 200 Philistines In Mostly Painless Medical Procedure 33 AD: Mostly Peaceful Crowd Demands Jesus Be Crucified 79 AD: Fiery But Mostly Dormant Mount Vesuvius Erupts 1235 AD: Genghis Khan Attacks China In Mostly...

Excommunicated A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, 'I almost had an affair with another woman.' The priest said, 'What do you mean, "almost?"' The Irishman said, 'Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped.' The priest said, 'Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You’re not to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Marys and put $50 in the poor box.' The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started...

ALABAMA .................. Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968. ALASKA ..................... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license. ARIZONA ................... Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time. ARKANSAS ................ Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S. CALIFORNIA .............. Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world. COLORADO ................ In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics. CONNECTICUT ........... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University. DELAWARE .............. Has more...

video at link...... A Frank Luntz focus group made up mostly of former Obama voters say they now support Mitt Romney. "Forceful, compassionate, presidential," one participant said. "Confident and realistic," said another. "Presidential," another told Luntz. "Enthusiastic," another reacted. "Our next president," one man said. "Dynamo, winner," said one more.

If someone was performing a top-to-bottom "performance review" of state government with the declared goal of making it more efficient, effective and accountable, a critical examination of its system of levying and collecting taxes would be, one would think, a cornerstone task. What is, after all, more fundamental to the relationship of government to the governed than taxation? And California's system of state and local taxation, which collects roughly $100 billion a year, is particularly worrisome. It has evolved over decades and has become a monument to arbitrary, often nonsensical, policy-making - the disparate sales-tax treatment of hot and cold...