Category Archives: Freedom of Speech and of the Press

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Killadelphia: Crime is down, or so we are told

Normally I’d have used Steve Keeley’s original post on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏, the worst rebranding in history — but Lloyd Christmas’ response was so great that I had to use it.

I assume, of course, that Mr Christmas was engaging in satire. I don’t know him at all, and there are probably some on the left who would seriously take that position!

There will be some on the left, including Elizabeth Hughes, the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who would see Mr Christmas’ tweet as absolutely serious reasoning, and who decided, a few years ago, that the newspaper would be an “anti-racist news organization,” ordering limitations on the Inky’s crime coverage, and who seems to have mandated that the newspaper not publish mugshots or photographs of criminals, unless, of course, the accused are white police officers.

A search of the newspaper’s website for “Etting Street,” where the murders took place, at 9:15 PM EDT turned up several stories on the shootings, all of which were dated more than a week ago, but nothing on the Philadelphia Police releasing photos of one of the suspects, nothing to help readers who might recognize the suspects, to help the police get them off the streets. Continue reading →

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Is Jake Tapper really this dumb?

Is this actually real? Did the distinguished Jake Tapper actually say, “Asking questions is literally our job. Demanding facts and answers, instead of just taking a President’s word for it”? After over four years of the credentialed media covering for Joe Biden’s descent into dementia, now Mr Tapper is saying that the media’s job is to demand facts and answers? Click on the image and you can see the video for yourself.

There’s a faked video of the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunninghan trashing Jacy Sheldon of the Connecticut Sun that’s making the rounds on Facebook that’s pretty funny. In it, Miss Cunningham said that Miss Sheldon fell into the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down, after the kerfuffle over Miss Cunningham’s hard foul on Miss Sheldon to stop a layup at the end of the game, a foul that was completely unnecessary, since the Fever were too far ahead of the Sun for the basket to have made a difference. It’s a good enough fake that it makes me wonder just how many artificial intelligence fakes there are in the world. Continue reading →

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What did they think would happen?

Let’s tell the truth here: Western liberals are, collectively, as dumb as a box of rocks. Images of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt are all over the internet, and anyone who can use Teh Google could have looked up the fact that the Egyptian government see Hamas as just another facet of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group outlawed in Egypt. Egypt has been ‘helping’ with negotiations between Hamas and Israel, because Egypt still dislikes Western civilization — other than Western nations’ money that is! — but sees political Islam as a real threat. That border wall, built by Egypt, not Israel, certainly more of an impediment than the big, beautiful wall President Trump has been building between the United States and Mexico, was meant to keep ‘Palestinians’ from getting into Egypt, because Egypt sees them for what they are: nothing but radical malcontents who have caused trouble everywhere the’ve gone.

Knowing all of that, why would the #GlobalMarchToGaza think that the Egyptian government would go along with their plans? Continue reading →

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Today’s left truly hate #FreedomOfSpeech . . . for people other than themselves Today's left champion 'diversity', just as long as it's not a diversity of opinions.

The “Occupy Democrats” emerged from the silly “Occupy Wall Street” protests and say they are “a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of the Democratic Party.” What they oppose is, in no particular order, Donald Trump, capitalism, and freedom of speech and of the press. They apparently, to judge from the cartoon published on their Facebook page, blame conservative election victories on President Ronald Reagan, who enabled Rush Limbaugh to gain an audience — not that he had “Talent on loan from God” — and then Fox News, the Drudge Report and the Koch brothers, then Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and inevitably Donald Trump. I’m only surprised that they didn’t include Twitter —  I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and Facebook.

We have reported many times on now thankfully former President Joe Biden’s attempt to create a Ministry of Truth under the Department of Fatherland Security, called the “Disinformation Governance Board”, and how we were fortunate that it failed. The left were aghast when Elon Musk was trying to buy Twitter, because they were afraid that conservatives might use Twitter more successfully, and the very lovely Taylor Lorenz, who wants to force us all to wear face masks forever, blamed the failure of that Board on “right-wing attacks.” My good friend — we’re such good friends that she has blocked me on Bluesky — Amanda Marcotte, who exercises her own freedom of speech and of the press on Salon, wanted the government to take over Twitter while The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far-left columnist Will Bunch suggested it “should exist more as a semi-public utility than as an entity that a man with a spare $44 billion can just light on fire.” Continue reading →

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Will the “No Kings” protests be peaceful?

Perhaps we have noted The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far left and #TrumpDerangement Syndrome afflicted columnist Will Bunch too much recently, but, while doing everything he can to defend the rioters and illegal immigrants in Los Angeles, he’s worried that such might come to the City of Brotherly Love.

Not that he won’t defend the rioters if violence does come to Philadelphia! But, guess what? It already has! Continue reading →

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Bad causes attract bad people Why are all of the left's cause célèbre heroes bad people?

Galadriel

I had meant to write this on Saturday, but got sidetracked when we rescued a very emaciated Huskey (mix?) female dog. She was begging for attention outside of the Sav-a-Lot grocery store, and she’s skin and bones: ribs showing, as well as her hips. I walked her to my 2010 Ford F-150, still running strong with fewer than 200 miles until the odometer flips to 200,000, and brought her home. We fed her, and I’ll take her to the vet on Monday, because she might have worms, causing her to not get enough nutrition from the food she does get.

With three dogs and a cat of our own, we really can’t keep her, and I’ve been trying to find someone who can take care of her. That didn’t stop me from naming her Galadriel.

Robert Stacy McCain did write yesterday, noting the complicity of the credentialed media, which he has long called Democratic operatives with bylines, in minimizing the stories of attacks on Jews in the United States: Continue reading →

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Do you need the government to manage you? Apparently Wrongthink™ is a serious problem, and conservatives need to be watched

We reported, last Friday, on Catherine Herridge’s report of the Biden Administration’s efforts to label those who disagreed with COVID-19 vaccine mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists”:

The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger @galexybrane and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent. Continue reading →

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Apparently I am a “Domestic Violent Extremist”, or so Joe Biden and his minions would have classified me

Did you know that I’m a “Domestic Violent Extremist”? I didn’t know I was, but that’s apparently how the Biden Administration would have classified me, if they knew who a small fry like me was. Continue reading →

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough!

You know, I get it: everyone wants to keep his job, no matter how royally he f(ornicated) up! As we have previously noted, the credentialed media have been trying their d(arnedest) to blame their almost total lack of coverage of thankfully former President Joe Biden’s declining physical and mental health not on their own failures to be actual journalists, but on Mr Biden’s inner circle and staff of paid flunkies to tell them the truth. How naïve do the reporters and editors have to be to think that people whose jobs and positions depended on Mr Biden remaining in office would tell other people that their boss was losing it?

Well, apparently the Editorial Board of The Washington Post want you to think that they were stunned by events!

If Biden was too frail for his job, voters should have been informed

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