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Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Economic Inequality Is Not Increasing. Propaganda Is
by Gary North. It never ends. We are besieged by articles on today's increasing economic inequality. These articles have three things in common: 1. Each one has a favorite explanation/boogeyman. 2. Each one calls for political reforms to make things more equal. 3. Each one fails to mention Pareto's 20/80 law. Here is the main problem with these ... MOREWalter E Williams: Campus Lunacy, Part II
Erasing memory via political correctness. Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled "The hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze." Students, often with the blessing of faculty, have discovered that names for campus buildings and holidays do not ... MOREJack Hellner: Prosecuting Free Speech
Speak up now or forever hold your peace. The U.S. attorney general and the Democrat attorneys general in several states are indicating that they are considering legal action against people who believe that current climate change is natural and cyclical, as it has been throughout billions of years, instead of caused by humans. Is it any wonder ... MOREStephanie Slade: 'Drug Users Need Treatment,' Says President Obama. Not So Fast, Says Dr. Carl Hart
The vast majority of drug users are not addicts. "For too long we've viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice," President Obama said yesterday
at a conference in Atlanta. "The most important thing to do is reduce
demand. And the only way to do that is to provide treatment—to see it as
a public health problem and not a ... MOREEquating Vaping With Smoking Is Medical Malpractice
by Jacob Sullum. Credibility up in smoke. Like most professional pundits, Margaret Cuomo has perfected the art of speaking authoritatively even when she does not know what she is talking about. Unlike most professional pundits, Cuomo is in a position to cause real damage. As a celebrity doctor spreading misinformation about the hazards of ... MOREDrug War Myths Exploded: 7 Facts About Drugs That Will Make You Question Everything You Thought You Knew
by Johann Hari. A prevailing lack of wisdom. There's no subject in our culture where the conversation is dominated by myths and misconceptions so much as drugs. We are frightened to talk about it. We are tempted to fall back on stock-phrases and mental spasms -- Just Say No, and all its more modern twists. I have always been sympathetic to more ... MOREHow The Media Is Lying To You About Economic Recovery
from the Daily Bell. "The missing piece from the economic recovery has finally materialized. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is now higher than it was before the recession that began at the end of 2007, according to new data published by Sentier Research." –Yahoo So incomes are rising again. Presumably, this is supposed to mean ... MOREObama Lied, And The Debt Ceiling Died
an Investor's Business Daily editorial. Transparency: What do you call it when an administration blatantly lies to the public to get its way in a debt ceiling fight, then covers it up for two years? For the Obama White House, it’s called “par for the course.” “There is no way to make our federal payment system work well to pick and choose what ... MOREWalter E Williams: Isn't It Strange
More inconvenient truths. There is a letter titled "Isn't It Strange?" making the rounds in email boxes. It asks questions to which our fellow Americans should know the answers, save for those caught up in modernity. It starts off asking, "Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, ... MOREGlenn Greenwald: U.S. Radically Changes Its Story Of The Boats In Iranian Waters To An Even More Suspicious One
Government's first instinct is to lie. When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression
— uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what
happened. One of the boats, we were told, experienced “mechanical
failure” and thus ... MOREWhy Are Angry Ranchers Being Called Terrorists?
by Frank Furedi. It wasn’t long before pundits played the terrorist card in relation to the standoff between a group of ranchers and the US federal government at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In the Guardian, Wajahat Ali objected to the description of the ranchers as ‘militiamen’ rather than ‘terrorists’. ‘If the Oregon militiamen were Muslim ... MOREBHO's Gun Control Policies Serve Same Function As Tears
by Jacob Sullum. Intentions over results. HouseAnnouncing his gun-related "executive actions" yesterday, President Obama predictably substituted emotion for logic while engaging in a familiar bait and switch. He recited a litany of horrific, headline-grabbing mass shootings while proposing policies that would have done nothing to prevent ... MOREBarry Farber: CNN's Latest Defamation Of America
Following an anti-American template. “A typical day in America” was the way the BBC announced the massacre in San Bernardino. When CNN let us in on that, Wolf Blitzer asked Fareed Zakaria how the rest of the world looked upon America. “You’re a world traveler, Fareed,” said Wolf. “What are they saying about us?” Before Fareed said a ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Left Smears Inconvenient Truths
Like more guns mean less crime. This week my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants stricter gun laws. I pointed out that after most states loosened gun laws to let people carry guns, 29 peer-reviewed studies examined the effect. Eighteen found less crime, 10 found no difference and only one found an increase. ... MORES. Fred Singer: The Burden Of Proof On Climate Change
Making America pay. The burden of proof for Anthropogenic Climate Change falls on alarmists. Climate Change (CC) has been ongoing for millions of years – long before humans existed on this planet. Obviously, the causes were all of natural origin, and not anthropogenic. There is no reason to believe that these natural causes have ... MORE
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