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I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people. Many…

Fox Business host Charles Payne expressed major concerns over the disastrous consequences Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s leftist tax plan would inflict on Americans if it were ever implemented.

On MSNBC's AM Joy show, guest host Tiffany Cross says that while Nancy Pelosi and Steve Mnunchin negotiate a new stimulus package, Americans are "starving." Later, the Rev. William Barber claims that 148 million Americans are in poverty, equal to 45% of the population. The real number is about 10%. He also says that even before the pandemic, 250,000 Americans were dying daily. That would be…

It’s not everyday The New York Times undercuts its own Trump-Russia saga by admitting that there’s no evidence President Donald Trump owes money to Russia. In a shocking story headlined “No, There Isn’t Evidence That Trump Owes Money to Russia,” Times Business Investigations Editor David Enrich wrote: “Lately, liberals and other social media accounts have been spreading…

Christmas came early for those wanting CNN to resemble a real news organization (albeit for only 14 minutes) on Tuesday’s Situation Room as host Wolf Blitzer hammered Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for refusing to accept offers of compromise for coronavirus stimulus from Republicans and the White House. In response, Pelosi melted down at the idea of facing adversarial questions,…

On Monday, weekday morning CNN Newsroom co-host Poppy Harlow displayed the latest example of CNN’s commitment to condescension, infotainment, and performance art to the detriment of news and sobriety as she made faces, sighed, and threw her head back at Deputy White House Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern. Most notably, Harlow grew apoplectic when Morgenstern dared to criticize the…

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" was Blanche DuBois's iconic line in "A Streetcar Named Desire," by which poor Blanche effectively admitted to having lived a life of prostitution. So when Tim O'Brien used that same line about Donald Trump, you know he was doing it with malice aforethought, with the unmistakable goal of making the same insinuation.  O'Brien uttered his line…

Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, "When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation." Gore Vidal, his 20th-century intellectual successor, elaborated saying: "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate." Sloppy language permits…

Journalists can’t handle the truth. The Big Three excuses for evening news shows ignored three major pieces of economic news that happened between September 15 and September 16. Median household income was “$68,703 in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent from the 2018 median of $64,324,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau September 15.

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski quotes from her hubby's latest Washington Post column in which he wrote that "many working-class Americans have been voting against their own economic interests for so long," by which he meant, voting for Republicans. That is a notion popularized in the book What's the Matter with Kansas? by leftist author Thomas Frank.

Morning Joe regular and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says that people who prefer President Trump "because Joe Biden and the radical left will jeopardize their economic well-being, their 401(k)s and the like" are acting out of "selfishness and self-interest." 

 The V-shaped recovery the media said wouldn't happen appears to be happening.

Liberal billionaire George Soros has a knack for saying creepy globalist things. His latest comments on the opportunities he sees with the coronavirus pandemic are no exception. Soros told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview that he described the virus as “a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times,” according to…

I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd's death -- rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks. The pretense is that police conduct stands as the root of black problems. According to the NAACP,…