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Mark Twain is often misattributed as saying, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” The sentiment is definitely Twainesque, but he never said it. Nevertheless, it’s still true and demonstrable time and again in our post-truth society.As more “normies” have started waking up to the reality that the Covid-19 “vaccines” are ineffective and dangerous, a lot are finding news way of defending their decisions to get jabbed rather than admitting it was a mistake. Conservative comic Scott Adams, who is most famous for creating the Dilbert comics, is not one of those people....

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NEW YORK THEATER Bill Maher brings attitude to the stage By ALESSANDRA STANLEY NEW YORK -- "I think women's sports are boring." "I am for mad cow disease." "I think `no' sometimes means `yes.' " "I think Vegas was better when it was run by the mob." Bill Maher concludes Victory Begins at Home, his one-man Broadway show, by reciting that politically incorrect credo. Since Sept. 11, 2001, he has become, if not one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush administration, at least one of the most contrarian. He mocks the country's enemies as well as its leadership....

<p>How would America have reacted to Sept. 11 had Al Gore been president?</p> <p>Or, more to the point, how would Al Gore have reacted to Sept. 11?</p> <p>Judging by his speech the other day to the Commonwealth Club of California, the answer is: Weakly.</p> <p>Tentatively.</p> <p>Maybe not at all.</p>

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