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The Dual Standard: From News Distortion to the Normalization of Political Violence

The controversy surrounding late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and the ensuing debate over free speech, media bias, and hypocrisy represents a microcosm of a larger and more disturbing trend in American politics: the increasing acceptance and even justification of political violence. For many, the selective outrage over perceived censorship, juxtaposed with actual acts of politically […]

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Culture Wars Editorial

What’s Bad for the Media is Good for America

The winter freeze might have shut down entire cities, but it couldn’t slow down job growth as the economy roared through the cold and shattered projections with 304,000 non-farm jobs in January. There were job gains everywhere from transportation (27,000) to health care (42,000) to hospitality (74,000). Under Trump, construction gained 338,000 jobs in 12 […]

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Dead Jews––What Else is New?

This past Saturday morning, 11 Jews were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue by one of the millions of Jew haters who contaminate our world. To Jews like me, who know and appreciate Jewish history as I do, this is no surprise. Tragic, yes; shocking, no. We are a tiny, indeed microscopic, people, only […]

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Culture Wars

Shepard Smith Calls Christians “Haters”

By Cliff Kincaid “Haters are going to hate” is how Shepard Smith of Fox News referred to supporters of Christian clerk Kim Davis on his Tuesday afternoon show. It was another example of the anti-Christian bias that has been rearing its ugly head on a channel that many conservatives had looked to for “fair and […]

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US Opinion and Editorial

Stephen Colbert and Me

My New Year’s resolution is a repeat: never to trust the Big Media again. Except that the Big Media now include people like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. I waited over a year for a Stephen Colbert story about me to appear. When it didn’t, they didn’t even send my kids the free T-shirts they […]

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US Opinion and Editorial

New York Times Bows to Terrorism

Speaking at the April 25 New York Times annual meeting, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, tried to justify the rejection of an ad calling attention to the alleged oppressive nature of the Islamic religion and the “vengeful, hateful and violent teachings” of Islam’s prophet. He said the ad might incite […]