Ok, this is nuts.  I was listening to my local NPR station this morning. (Yeah, I know.)  It did a story on the Winchester Mystery House–the big creepy old house built by the widow of the heir to the famous rifle company.   The reporter mentioned the theory that Sarah Winchester’s building obsessions were rooted in her deep personal losses early in life, most particularly, the loss of her only child.  But in describing the death of that child, the reporter said, “they died in infancy.”   My brain froze for a second.  “They” died?  Hadn’t the reporter just said “only” child?” Did she say “twins,” and I missed it?  Then the fog lifted, this is trans-ideology creeping in.   

Well, I had to look it up.  Sarah Winchester’s only child, the one who died at six weeks, was a girl, Annie Pardee Winchester, named after her deceased aunt.  

Accuracy in Media has a truck driving around the Harvard campus (and other Ivy campuses now, too) with billboards flashing the names and photos of students who signed the anti-Israel petitions. Apparently the names are public record, as the Harvard Crimson published the petitions and their signatories. And AIM is updating them as more students sign and others withdraw their names.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it doesn’t seem right if people have their names publicized who don’t want them publicized. Yet the students signed public petitions, and the far-left campus newspaper published their names, so I feel they hardly have grounds for complaint. Are they upset because they are realizing that they became open supporters of terrorism by signing?

The title for this essay is one line from John Mellencamp’s song Small Town. There are advantages to living in a small town. Everybody knows everybody in town. There are disadvantages to living in a small town. Everybody knows everybody in town.

The small town of Marion, Kansas, has made the big time in the media. A town of 1,922 people is in the spotlight for a Constitutional Freedom of the Press issue.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GMA3/video/vice-president-kamala-harris-discusses-womens-health-101872444 An ABC News reporter sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris.  The so-called reporter’s questions all assumed leftists beliefs about abortion and also used the language of pro abortionists.  The interview ends with a question about Florida supposedly teaching that slaves benefited from slavery.  An out right lie that is assumed in the question. […]

I’m inclined to say yes, that Michael Heaver’s YouTube channel is a good example of what we would like the new alt-media to have. Maybe it’s not everything the alt-media should be, but what it does is good.  Preview Open

First off, the Washington Beacon did a study on the political donations of “fact checkers” over the last seven years. They found that 99.5% of donations are made to Democrats, and that Bernie Sanders was the top recipient. They also found that, at least one GOP donor obfuscated their identity. https://freebeacon.com/media/fact-check-nearly-100-percent-of-political-contributions-from-fact-checkers-go-to-democrats/ Preview Open

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers. – GK Chesterton

Although the internet, television news, YouTube, Twitter, and blogging were not available to GK Chesterton they have taken on the task of pelting us with alleged fact.