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Victor Tango Kilo
Victor Tango Kilo
38
 

Self-proclaimed leftie Ken Silverstein agrees with me that the Democrat Party and the Mainstream Media are parts of the same machine. “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed,” I.F. Stone once wrote. “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations,” said George […]

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Oblomov
Oblomov
8534
 

David Brooks is the New York Times’ least hated non-dead conservative. He is the Left’s go-to respectable conservative, the kind you’re supposed to be able to bring home to meet your mom. He won’t belch at the dinner table and he knows which fork to use with the curly endive and manchego salad with raspberry […]

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Lensman
Lensman
47
 

Conservatives are conceding too much when they use the term “Mainstream Media” (“MSM”) to refer to the media oligarchy of NYT, WaPo, LATimes, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, AP, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc., etc. I might accept the use of the term “Dominant Media” but that evokes “bondage and domination,” which is a little too […]

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Austin Murrey
Austin Murrey
2614
 

Apparently Julian Assange’s internet access was cut yesterday, or today. Well, recently; I’m not that interested in figuring out the exact time, because who cares? I’m very interested in what the heck a “Pret veggie sandwich” is, because supposedly Pamela Anderson poisoned him yesterday with one. From the BBC on the actual story: Wikileaks says an unidentified “state actor” […]

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Lois Lane
Lois Lane
177
 

I can’t always recommend an article from Politico, but a friend of mine who insists I’m secretly a feminist often sends me articles like Buckley and Feminism  to open a discussion about the conservative position on women. This piece proved insightful and interesting, especially after Donald Trump–not a man I’d call an intellectual–has spent so much time […]

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Paul A. Rahe
Paul A. Rahe
3821
 

At noon, while waiting for lunch, I glanced at The Wall Street Journal and noticed that, in the “Personal Journal” section, on pp. R4-R9, that newspaper — with the help of Times Higher Education — had provided its readers with a list of 497 American colleges ranked in light of endowment, likelihood that graduates would […]

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sawatdeeka
sawatdeeka
1510
 

Popular periodicals have changed. I’ve been perusing Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and Women’s Day for years. Since 2008 or so, I’ve noticed some differences in tone and material. First, there’s far more shameless product placement in the women’s magazines, and perhaps in the Digest too, although it’s more prominent in publications for ladies. Now an article on house decor is not just an […]

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Hoystory
Hoystory
86
 

The inclusion of “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace as one of the moderators for this fall’s presidential debates sparked a firestorm when he told colleague and media reporter Howard Kurtz that it wasn’t his job as a moderator to fact-check the candidates during the actual debate. I do not believe that it is my […]

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Grimaud
Grimaud
810
 

Not too many days go by in my perusal of the news and punditry that I do not think about the calm and intelligent, “happy warrior” Tony Snow. I am not sure why we lose such credits to our cause. If anyone was able to convince a non conservative of the rectitude of our philosophy […]

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P̄om tā lôn (I am Bald Gram…
P̄om tā lôn (I am Bald Gram…
1413
 

A friend of mine posted this from Dan Rather. If you don’t want to read it, I’ll summarize. Trump is horrible. The press must suspend their usual objectivity, band together, and defeat him. https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10157430091225716 Preview Open

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Victor Tango Kilo
Victor Tango Kilo
99
 

Donald Trump has really handled the “Basket of Deplorables” attack beautifully. The Democrat-Media Collaboration on this line of attack was supposed to work like this: Hillary denounces Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables.” Media runs with the phrase “Basket of Deplorables” and challenges Republicans to denounce their deplorable “racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic” followers. Republicans […]

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Bijou
Bijou
12
 

Gone are the days of mellifluous tones emanating from my tv during the “news” hour.   You may remember in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, news broadcasters were chosen for their “grackly” voices so viewers wouldn’t feel bad.  It’s painful to listen to most of the news shows today. Not only are the voices nasal and […]

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Wiley
Wiley
2310
 

I must admit that I find a liberal journalist getting a taste of what it is like to be a conservative journalist, a bit amusing. He had his article pulled and has been banned from the Huffington Post for mentioning Hillary’s health issues. Mr. Seaman expects the IRS to be calling soon, or worse! He […]

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Austin Murrey
Austin Murrey
2015
 

I felt dirty, short of breath, and my chest was tight. I could taste the stink of cigarette and weed smoke and liquor and had the smell of blood stuck on my tongue. In our continuing quest to find ways to Make Ricochet Great Again, I’ve brought you another long-from article that I encourage you to read […]

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