Tag: The New York Times

President Ulysses S. Grant (image source: The White House website)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

The Fourteenth Amendment, Foreign Policy, & Commander-in-Chief Grant

With the South under the United States Army’s heel, the Radical Republicans turned the Civil Rights Act of 1866 into the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. This amendment has turned out to be a disaster, mainly due to its birthright citizenship clause, which gives anyone born in the United States citizenship regardless of his parents’ status or his race and national origin. (more…)

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Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations begin to decline.

For the last 60 years, one such myth is that of Kitty Genovese.

Thanks to the New York Times reporting of her grisly 1964 murder in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens — during which 38 people supposedly watched and did nothing while she was stabbed to death — her name has become synonymous with bystander apathy. (more…)

Joos van Craesbeeck, The Temptation of St. Anthony (1650)

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The New York Times quoted French social critic Jacques Barzun when they defined decadence as the “economic stagnation, institutional decay and cultural and intellectual exhaustion at a high level of material prosperity and technological development,” in a 2020 article entitled “The Age of Decadence.” (more…)

Zyahna Bryant

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Cartoonishly Obese Black She-Beast Who Ruined White Woman’s Life with False Allegations Is Made Honorary Spokespig for Dove Soap’s “Fat Liberation” Campaign

Not so long ago, being black, female, and morbidly overweight were all considered liabilities. No more! (more…)

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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2021

I know I speak for many of my readers when I say that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is my favorite Democrat. He might actually be the only sane Democrat left. (more…)

The jury is still out as to whether Giorgia Meloni, who may become Italy’s new Prime Minister after Sunday’s elections, is the new Mussolini. Photo: Wikimedia  Commons

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Look out — here comes Hitler in a bra.

On Sunday, Italian voters are expected to propel a “far-Right” coalition led by a saucy and fetching 45-year-old woman into power.

Almost exactly one hundred years since Benito Mussolini took charge of Italy’s government, headlines for both UPI and the Guardian warn, in the exact same words, that Giorgia Meloni could “become Italy’s first far-Right leader since Mussolini.” (more…)

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There is good news, and there is bad news. The good news is that Walter Duranty II, aka Nicholas Kristof, is not going to be Governor of Oregon — not soon, anyway. (more…)

Nancy Crampton Brophy, a writer who claims that the fact that she once wrote a blog post entitled “How to Murder Your Husband” has nothing to do with the fact that she actually shot her husband to death.

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“Malevolent” Ram Kills African Woman, Gets Three Years in Prison

In a shocking case of ram-on-black violence, an unnamed adult male sheep in South Sudan recently attacked a 45-year-old black woman named Adhieu Chaping, killing her almost instantly. At press time it remains unclear what the ram’s motivation was — it could have been for money, or due to unrequited love, or simply a manifestation of the interspecies hatred and violence that have plagued the sprawling, worthless Dark Continent for millennia now. (more…)

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Last month, The New York Times published an op-ed by Emma Camp, a student at the University of Virginia (UVA), describing the ideological conformity among her classmates and the social challenges faced by dissenting students. The article was swiftly met with mockery and derision among the blue-check set. (more…)

Walter Duranty

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“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge. First, the criminal who slays, then the sophist who defends the slayer.” — Lord Acton

“There is no famine, nor is there likely to be.” — Walter Duranty, The New York Times

Walter Duranty, a British-born journalist, served as the Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times from 1922 through 1936. (more…)

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Expert: “A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area.”

Begging the question: “The fallacy of begging the question occurs when an argument’s premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.” (more…)

Nicholas Kristof in Bahrain

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Guess who is going to be running for Governor of Oregon? Current Governor-sociopath, Kate Brown, is term limited. Who best to replace the state’s pretend Governor? Why not Nicholas Kristof, a pretend journalist who, until recently, wrote for a pretend newspaper? (more…)

Ross Douthat

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A fierce battle is being waged over American history, pitting liberals against conservatives over how to present our past to children. Conservatives argue American history should inspire a civic nationalism within children, regardless of color, and our history should present the Founding Fathers as colorblind liberals. (more…)