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  • Many U.S. Mainstream Media Join Brazilian Socialists to Try to Destroy Elon Musk’s X

    By Selwyn Duke The “world is not obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s extreme right-wing anything goes just because he is rich.” So said Brazilian president and ex-convict Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently, referencing his nation’s attack on Musk’s X social media platform. Only, he didn’t mention that “anything goes” doesn’t mean killing…

  • Kamala Is Ahead — But Are the Polls Designed to Deceive?

    By Selwyn Duke “They not only changed their formula, to put Hillary ahead [over Donald Trump]. They went back and changed the results,” said late Democratic pollster and strategist Pat Caddell in 2016. “They didn’t tweak their procedure — they cooked it.” Caddell wasn’t talking about some obscure news organization, either, when making his comments.…

  • From Woke to Awakened — RFK Jr.’s Running Mate: The Media Lied to Me About MAGA

    By Selwyn Duke Media “bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election,” informed Professor Tim Groseclose in his 2011 book Left Turn. As to this bias’ reality, there’s a story currently in the news that illustrates it well. To wit: Nicole Shanahan, billionaire, entrepreneur, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s…

  • CNN: Calling U.S. a “Republic” Is “an Attack on Democracy”

    By Selwyn Duke “You’re entitled to your own opinions,” late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) once famously said — “but not your own facts.” This, apparently, would be news to the Cable News Network (CNN). That is, after interviewing Trump supporters on Sunday, a CNN reporter claimed their observation that the United States is a…

  • Billionaire Finally Realizes 7-year-old Tale About Trump Is a Lie

    By Selwyn Duke Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about what politicians and policies to support — i.e., civilization-preserving decisions — if they’re being fed misinformation about those politicians and policies? And, boy,…

  • Heard About the European “Far Right”? How About Unicorns?

    By Selwyn Duke The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would be if the media routinely called pro-gun-control people “anti-freedom” or pro-abortion individuals “pro-death.” Mainstream journalists don’t do that, of course — but they do use…

  • GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory

    By Selwyn Duke It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real. When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They…

  • Crock Boy: When the Media Get Owned by a 14-year-old

    By Selwyn Duke Take the money and run. With the huge windfall enjoyed by the Mohamed family — of clock-bomb-arrest fame — in “Islamophobic” America, one might think that little clock-maker extraordinaire Ahmed Mohamed would head to Switzerland for an internship with Rolex. Instead, news is his whole family is moving to Qatar after the…

  • Ahmed the “Clock Boy” Meets with Obama and War Criminal

    By Selwyn Duke The media has dubbed him “Clock Boy,” but critics have pointed out that he’s really just Crock Boy. This hasn’t prevented Ahmed Mohamed (shown), the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world…

  • When the Feds Quash Free Speech with Legal Tyranny

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you run a website and are ordered by the federal government to divulge personal information on article commenters. Now imagine that the feds also issue a gag order preventing you from revealing what they’re up to. This is precisely what happened with award-winning libertarian website Reason.com Site editor Nick Gillespie related…