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Just when you thought the mainstream media would simply be left to die under its own bloated weight of lies and deceit coupled with propaganda and divisiveness that has been planted in the minds of over a generation of Americans, up comes the prospect of a federal bailout of the mainstream media.

Here is an excellent survey of the proposed intervention of the federal government into the news by way of a book written by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols entitled ‘The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again’.

Folks, if you believe that the US government is simply going to stand idly by while the alternative media takes root and begins to tell the truth about the absolute similarities between the two-party system and the mainstream media’s complicity in falsely claiming that there is a difference between the two, then think again.

‘Imagine a world of “post-corporate” newsrooms, where the state serves as the primary benefactor of the Fourth Estate. Billions flow from bureaucracies to media entities and individual journalists in the name of sustaining a “free press.” And this new media welfare state is funded by steep taxes on our mobile phones, broadband connections, and digital gadgets.

Sound Orwellian? Well, it’s the blueprint for a press takeover…’

We have been warning our readers about the dangers of the vertically-integrated, corporate mainstream media for a long time. Now that its very existence is threatened, the federal government is setting out to try to prop it up, apparently at all costs.

Get ready is all we can say. The battle for American hearts and minds is now under way…

-TPN

• “Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
  A pointed question from Steve Jobs this morning — and one that has nothing to do with anti-jihad efforts. Or maybe it does have something to do with them at that….
• Saudi Arabia: Misunderstanders of Islam force Understander of Islam to resign for publishing correct understanding of Islam
  The silly headline above reflects the sacrosanct dogmas about Islam that we are all forced to accept in the Western public square, on pain of ostracism and marginalization: Islam is a Religion of Peace™. Jihad terrorists, despite their claims to be motivated by Islamic texts and teachings, have nothing to…
• Indonesian president: Indonesia will never be an Islamic state
  Why can’t we have a president like this? It’s all just words, of course, in a state where jihadists have committed numerous terrible acts of violence more or less with impunity. Even on the level of words alone, however, Yudhoyono has now surpassed virtually every Western leader. “President Hits…
• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 17, 2010
  As the institutional manifestation of George Soros, the Shadow Party operates in two distinct spheres, the financial and the political. The financial nerve center of Soros’s empire is an investment firm called Soros Fund Management LLC, located at 888 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. Political intrigues are facilitated mainly through the Open Society Institute (OSI), whose [...]
• The Shrine of Multiculturalism: Now Sacrificing Lives in the Name of Appeasement
  The Left often pays lip service to, while actually doing nothing about, the  military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Yet, in regards to radical Islam, that is exactly what the Left wants us to do. Don’t ask.  And, dear Allah, never tell!
  Instead, they prefer to demagogue American citizens, while “bitterly clinging” to their insane [...]
• Shall Not Perish
  My day on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
• A Twitter Trap I’m Not Falling For From a Jew-Hating Liar with No Remorse
  Let’s take this a step at a time.
  I emailed Jumanah Imad Albahri, the infamous UCSD Muslim student who called for genocide against the Jews, on Sunday at 10:19 AM Pacific Standard Time. I got the email from the login used by Albahri (apparently) to comment on Robert Spencer’s post yesterday morning to protest that the [...]
• See No Radical Islam, Hear No Radical Islam
  Eric Holder continues the administration’s game of blurry definitions.
• A Question for Truthful Girl
  My email to Jumanah Imad Albahri, who alleges she was “coerced” to verbalize support for genocide of the Jews.
• Dershowitz vs. Tenured Extremists
  No academic freedom of speech for the defenders of Israel.

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• Hamid Mir, “moderate” top Pakistani TV anchor, caught aiding Taliban jihadists
  Many non-Muslims in Europe and America have been taken in by Hamid Mir, a self-professed “moderate.” I was on to him years ago. So was Pamela Geller. We were both lectured self-righteously about how we had to support “moderates.” And now here we are. I hate to say “I told…
• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 16, 2010
  In the business of mothers dying, fate dealt me a better hand than it did Saul Bellow. My mother lived to a ripe age and was vigorous to the end. When she had her first stroke my children were already adults, and had given me two grandchildren besides. I was well into the cycle of [...]
• Decline and Fall of the UN Human Rights Council: ‘Appeasement’ of Libya – as new Council Member
  The United Nations Human Rights Council, often considered the ‘Conscience of Humanity’, is unfortunately being hijacked and misused by representatives of undemocratic countries. They often appear more interested in protecting their governments from criticism than advancing the cause of human rights, condemning Israel more frequently than all 57 member states…
• NewsReal Sunday: Pelosi Instructs Clergy To Preach Amnesty From Their Pulpits
  Pelosi distorts the Constitution, laws, and the Bible all to promote amnesty.
• The Ben Shapiro Show is Top Notch!
  I’m not a talk radio conservative in any shape or form. It’s not that I don’t recognize the talent and important of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck. Rather, it’s just not my style.
  Even when I was a leftist I couldn’t get into Air America when it debuted. There’s something about the medium that [...]
• Don’t Wake Up Keith, I’ve Got a Bet on You — Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 46
  When not enlightening the world one post at a time (or working on my humility)  I am a business intelligence guy. I will spare you the long explanation of what a “business intelligence guy” does for a living, because your eyes would soon roll back in your head and that’s never fun unless accompanied by [...]
• China Will Defeat Itself
  Ian Bremmer, the author of The End of the Free Market, was on Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show.” He argued that the free market in the U.S. needed more regulation so as to better compete with China. The biggest threat to our economy, he said, was “state capitalism.”
  China does not have a free [...]
• David Horowitz Confronts Mark LeVine, Genocide Apologist, on Hannity
  Hat-tip to Donald Douglas at American Power who has a must-read post on the segment.
  Be sure and note how Mark LeVine has the same excuse that some of our leftist commenters have: David Horowitz provoked her into saying something that she doesn’t really mean. By “refusing to answer her question” she got frustrated. Never mind [...]
• Audio of David Horowitz on Sean Hannity’s Radio Show Yesterday
  Thanks Right Scoop!
• Government Seeks to Track Body Mass of Children
   
  Is it prima facie Orwellian to have a bill proposed by the government called the “Healthy Choices Act”? Think about it. 
  Let’s just assume that it isn’t for now. Let’s instead commit to judge the creepy statism of any particular legislation by the creepy statist measure it proposes to enact.
  In this case, it looks like [...]

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• Indian lyricist gets multiple death threats after publicly dissenting from Islamic seminary’s fatwa against women working
  We’re always made to affirm, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that Islam is not a monolith, but rather a gorgeous mosaic notable for its multiplicity. The only things interfering with this inspiring picture are the recurring death threats against those Muslims who attempt to soften some of Islam’s sharper…
• “Relentless waves of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, extortions and rapes have triggered a mass exodus of Christians from Iraq over the past seven years”
  And all of it was perpetrated by Sharia supremacist groups acting in the name of Islam. “‘Obliterating’ Iraq’s Christians,” by Nina Shea in the Washington Post, May 14: What is most startling about the report of the heartless double bus bombings on May 2 that targeted and injured 80 Christian…
• Green Tech Still Hopeless for “The New Poor”
  Only the New York Times can publish an article on jobs that aren’t coming back, call it “creative destruction” and say that it “benefit[s] the economy.”
  You think I’m joking.
  From Catherine Rampbell’s piece “In a Job Market Shift, Some Workers Are Left Behind“ in the New York Time’s “The New Poor” series:
  This “creative destruction” in the job market [...]
• Fitzgerald: Should the U.S. government now develop a special program of domestic aid for Muslims?
  Well, now we know why Faisal Shahzad did what he did. For god’s sake, you don’t have to be Robert Pape to know that Islam had nothing to do with it. It was loss of status. It was poverty. Here was poor Faisal Shahzad, the son of a high-ranking Pakistani…
• Fitzgerald: Isobel Coleman and Sakena Yacoobi “looking for loopholes” in the Qur’an, or, In the Muslim world, will Jesuitical casuistry improve the condition of women?
  I listened recently on NPR to a discussion about Empowerment of Women In Islam. The two guests were Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan who for many years lived in the United States and is now back in Afghanistan, and Isobel Coleman, who after years in business (mainly as a McKinsey consultant),…
• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 15, 2010
  But this self-described moral teacher and disciple of Socrates and Christ has nothing to say about the collusion of progressives in the worst episode of mass murder and human oppression in recorded history. Instead, West is the proud co-chair of the “Democratic Socialists of America,” an organization that defines its position [...]
• NRB Book Club: Crossing the Rubicon
  Although I only discovered him a few months ago, British historian Tom Holland has already become one of my favorite all-time authors. Unlike most of his fellow historians, Holland is truly able to bring the ancient history back to life. When reading one of his books, the ancient past feels ancient no more. It feels [...]
• Sweden: Syrian diplomat tried to kidnap daughter because he didn’t approve of her boyfriend
  The good news: He failed, and he’s been expelled from the country. “Sweden expels Syrian diplomat, tried to kidnap his daughter,” from the Associated Press, May 14: STOCKHOLM — A prosecutor says Sweden has expelled a Syrian diplomat in an alleged plot to abduct his daughter and bring her out…
• Albahri Just Iceberg’s Tip, Campus Campaign for a Second Holocaust is National
  The shocking admission of UC San Diego student Jumanah Imad Albahri that she favors the extermination of the Jews has gotten plenty of attention. Since we posted the video on Tuesday it’s received more than 200,000 views on Youtube.
  What’s vital to understand, though, is that Albahri isn’t the story. She’s just the tip of the [...]
• Radical Leftists Plan To Shut Down K Street Monday
  The left-wing militants of SEIU and the National People’s Action group plan to shut down K Street, the heart of the lobbying industry in the nation’s capital, at a massive in-your-face rally and march planned for Monday.
  The goal of the “action” –in organizing parlance— is a show of force calculated to intimidate bank lobbyists and [...]

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• More Leftist Distortions On the Arizona Immigration Law
  The O’Reilly Factor last night invited two pro-immigration activists to address the overheated racial hostilities that are coming more out into the open, as the debate over what to do about illegal immigration intensifies.  Not surprisingly, they added fuel to the fire with blatant distortions of Arizona’s new immigration law.
  “You’re absolutely right that tension is rising,” [...]
• Iraq: al-Sadr’s Shi’ite militias show signs of regrouping in south
  More trouble ahead. “Are Sadr militias rearming in Iraq’s south?” by Jane Arraf for the Christian Science Monitor, May 12: Baghdad – A senior US general said forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are rising again in Iraq’s south, engaging in intimidation, extortion, and political violence as politicians in…
• Spencer: Theology for a Holocaust
  In FrontPage for Friday I discuss the recent endorsement of genocide by a Muslim student at UCSD: UC-San Diego student Jumanah Imad Albahri last week, under questioning from David Horowitz, refused to condemn Hamas and Hizballah and endorsed a genocidal statement by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Many were shocked. Albahri’s…
• Pamela Geller debates the 9/11 Mosque on Hannity radio show
  Her opponent is Michael Ghouse of the Muslim American Congress. Take a listen….
• Saudi paper: Spencer is “the Likud anti-Christ”
  I can’t stop laughing. “From Saudi Newspaper: ‘Jihad Watch [Spreads] Nazi Propaganda in order to Link Islam with Terrorism,” from Translating Jihad, May 13: This article, published in the Saudi newspaper Dar al-Hayat on 30 April, is a response to Robert Spencer’s “See No Qur’an, Hear No Qur’an,” published on…
• Theology for a Holocaust
  Is UC-San Diego student and MSA member Jumanah Imad Albahri being an observant Muslim in promoting genocide against Jews?
• Israel’s Welfare Threat
  Why a growing welfare state burden may be an existential threat.
• The Islamization of Canada
  Welcome to the ideal place to live for extremist Muslims.
• The Rise of the Ignoramus Jihadist
  Islamic terrorists are not ignorant and poor, but neither are they truly educated.
• A Judeo-Muslim Civilization?
  A UC Berkeley conference reimagines Muslim-Jewish relations — and fails.

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• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 13, 2010
  Following the liberation of Baghdad, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote, “President George W. Bush has made a fatal change in the foreign policy of the United States. He has repudiated the strategy that won the Cold War—the combination of containment and deterrence … The Bush Doctrine reverses all that. The essence of our new strategy [...]
• Willful Blindness: Naive Catholic Graduate Student Defends Nazi Girl
  Tuesday we received the following comment from Anita Casavantes Bradford, a graduate student at UC San Diego, in response to Jumanah Imad Albahri’s admission that she supported the extermination of the Jewish people:
  This girl is actually my student; I know her to be an intelligent, moral young woman who believes in peace. I do [...]
• North Korean plane intercepted last year was carrying weapons to Hizballah and Hamas
  Another care package to jihadists from Dear Leader. Unsurprisingly, “35 tonnes of weapons, including rockets and rocket-propelled grenades” seem to have a way of smoothing over the general, blazing shirk of the “Juche” ideology. “North Korea arms plane ‘bound for Hezbollah’,” by James Hider for the Times Online, May 13:…
• Typical: Obama administration preparing to join U.N. group previously shunned for anti-West agenda
  This report doesn’t say much about the nature of the group, the “Alliance of Civilizations.” This description by the great Bat Ye’or, from this article by Pamela Geller is a good starting point: The Alliance of Civilizations, created to oppose the clash of civilizations, that is jihad, has also added…
• The Drone Campaign
  Why it must be expanded and defended.
• The Wrong Man
  Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands, but who should the authorities really be prosecuting?
• The Selling of “Islam-Lite”
  The need for “interfaith dialogue” that CAIR won’t tell you about.
• The Alarmist Presidency
  Barack Obama never wastes an opportunity to expand government regulation.
• A Movement of Hate, Pt. IV
  Will the truth about Israel overcome the vicious pro-Palestinian propaganda campaign?
• The Only Thing Worth Dying For
  How eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan.

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• UNC seems to think Muslim professor’s defamation is just “disagreement”
  Omid Safi is a professor at the University of North Carolina. He is also a liar who has defamed me, in a manner that is strongly reminiscent of the vicious libels that jihadists and their allies in the West routinely retail against those who oppose the jihad and Islamic supremacism….
• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 12, 2010
  On November 11, 2003, [George] Soros again vowed to drive Bush from office. His language was inflammatory, verging on hysteria. “America under Bush is a danger to the world,” Soros declared. Ousting Bush, he told The Washington Post, “is the central focus of my life … a matter of life and death.” [...]
• Spencer: Times Square Jihad? What Jihad?
  Yesterday in Human Events I discussed the ongoing willful ignorance: Now that would-be Times Square car bomb jihadist Faisal Shahzad has been exposed as an Islamic jihadist, the liberal media are searching for an explanation, any explanation, for his attempted attack that doesn’t involve Islamic jihad. Shahzad himself said he…
• Fatwa in India: Illegal for women to work, support family
  Destitution before dishonor! For the women, that is — not for the drafters of the fatwa. “Deoband fatwa: It’s illegal for women to work, support family,” by Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui for TNN, May 12 (thanks to Puneet): LUCKNOW: Darul Uloom Deoband, the self-appointed guardian for Indian Muslims, in a Talibanesque…
• Yemen will not extradite al-Awlaki
  Earlier, Yemeni authorities claimed al-Awlaki was “just a preacher.” Then, they said they were working on detaining him, but only waiting for U.S. to supply the necessary intelligence. Now, whatever they do, if and when they feel like getting around to capturing him, he’ll supposedly face trial in Yemen. That…
• SIOA Rally Calls for Halt to Plans for Ground Zero Mosque
  From Forbes: NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The human rights group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) is hosting a rally at Ground Zero to protest the construction of a mosque at the site of the Islamic terror attack that brought down the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. SIOA…
• Arizona or San Francisco?
  Which path will America take on immigration?
• Yearning for a Holocaust
  MSA student boasts she supports extermination of Jews.
• Conservative Call to Arms
  The world’s greatest bastion of freedom urgently needs its citizens to act.
• A Movement of Hate, Pt. III
  The deep roots of anti-Semitism in the pro-Palestinian movement.

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• Obama’s Human Rights and Non-Nuclear Utopia
  Lest Senate Democrats choose to insert the language of S. 1346 into another bill, sitting en queue is The Bill Dick Cheney and the Sundry Bad Guys Who Prosecuted The Engagement Formerly Known as WOT TM should be worried about.
  So should anyone else who defends America on foreign soil. So should our allies.
  Introduced by Democratic Senators Durbin, Cardin, Feingold, Feinstein, and Leahy in June ‘09 and [...]
• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 11, 2010
  On a dark Thursday in March the telephone rang and I picked up the receiver to hear my youngest child say “Something terrible has happened,” and I knew that a family member was gone.
  When death takes someone you love, there is no looking back. And there is only looking back. You can’t complain there’s been [...]
• The Terrorist Plan: Destroy From Within
  In the words of one of the ringleaders of the so-called “Toronto 18”, the alleged terrorism cell determined to make a 9-11 happen in Canada:
  “(It) doesn’t matter what trials you face, it doesn’t matter what comes your way….
  Our mission’s greater.
  Whether we get arrested, whether we (get) killed, we get tortured, our mission’s greater than just [...]
• Pakistan “under pressure” after Times Square bombing attempt, but how much?
  Pakistan’s efforts to wrest its frontier provinces from jihadist control may be compared to a child who is trying to get out of cleaning his or her room by doing as half-hearted a job as possible: Put a few things away; how about now? No? Straighten up a few more…
• Leftist Out, Leftist In
  Obama picks Elena Kagan to fill John Paul Stevens’ Supreme Court seat.
• Fake “Peace” for Israel
  Why the U.S.-mediated “proximity talks” with the Palestinians spell danger for Israel.
• Hurricane West: Cornel West and American Radicalism
  This academic impostor symbolizes the decline in America’s intellectual and moral standards.
• Legitimating Bigotry
  The legacy of Richard Goldstone.
• Defeating Iran?
  How can America deal with a nuclear Iran amidst Obama-era defense weakening?
• A Movement of Hate, Pt. II
  The appalling absence of freedom of speech within the Western pro-Palestinian movement.

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• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 10th, 2010
  On December 14th, 2000, as the holiday season was getting into full swing in Wichita Kansas, five young men and women, all professionals with bright careers in front of them were taken hostage in a townhouse. Two criminal brothers held them at gunpoint, raped the women and made the men have sex with each other, [...]
• Why Are We Bailing Out Socialist Greece?
  Why is the United States involved in a futile scheme to bail out the basket case economy of Greece, which despite its membership in the European Union, is a borderline third world socialist country?
  According to some estimates I’ve heard the U.S. will be kicking in up to $10 billion in funding to bail out Greece via [...]
• Pakistan: Political leaders blame terrorism on “well-hatched,” U.S.-backed conspiracy
  Conspiracy paranoia and displacement of responsibility often travel together, as in this case. “Anti-Islam forces behind Pak unrest,” from The News (Pakistan), May 10: ABBOTTABAD: Leaders of various religio-political parties on Sunday said terrorism was promoted in Pakistan under a well-hatched conspiracy. Addressing a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference, leaders of various religious…
• Pakistan: Methodist arrested with batteries and electrical circuit in his shoes — no, wait…
  Actually Faiz Mohammad appears to be another Misunderstander of Islam. “Man arrested in Pakistan trying to board plane with batteries and electrical circuit in shoes,” from the Telegraph, May 9: Pakistani officers arrested a man at Karachi airport after batteries and an electrical circuit were found in his shoes as…
• Faisal’s Terror Ties
  An international plot unfolds.
• Luck Is Not A Strategy
  America’s safety depends on the proposition that Islamic terrorists will prove more incompetent than the Obama administration.
• The Greek Crisis and the Reactionary Left
  The wages of socialism.
• Intellectual Assault
  Academic anti-Americanism and the distortion of 9/11.
• Christ: An “Undocumented” Migrant?
  What would Jesus do about open borders? Leftist immigration activists claim to know.
• A Movement of Hate, Pt. I
  The ugly face of the Western pro-Palestinian movement.

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• From the Writings of David Horowitz: May 9, 2010
  Sarah was born in London on January 4, 1964, in a one-bedroom basement flat near Hampstead Heath where our family had taken up a residence that was to last several years. According to the English practice, a midwife delivered her at home and a doctor came to look in on her [...]
• NRB Book Club: Preview of David Forsmark’s Upcoming FPM Review of Falcon 7
  Since James W. Huston’s thrillers are uniformly so good, it’s hard to say if Falcon 7 is his best– but it’s certainly his most incendiary since his Balance of Power proposed how Congress could bypass a pacifist President and strike back against terrorists.
  In Falcon 7, Huston doesn’t bother with fictional [...]
• U.S. to Pakistan: “You can’t pretend any longer that this is not going on”
  Is Pakistan’s double game wearing thin? Or will business as usual return once the attention on the Times Square bombing attempt fades? “U.S. Urges Action in Pakistan After Failed Bombing,” by Jane Perlez for the New York Times, May 8: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Obama administration has delivered new and…
• Oh, good: Pakistan stages show of force with nuclear-capable missiles
  Relax, the prime minister said “the world can now move “beyond safety and security concerns’!” Of course, India is the target audience for this display, demonstrating Pakistan’s skewed sense of priorities as jihadists continue to operate freely, and sometimes with official encouragement. “Pakistan test-fires pair of ballistic missiles,” from CNN,…
• Russia: Bomb in trash can kills 1, injures 5 at Caucasus train station
  The intrepid mujahedin, targeting commuters getting on trains. “Train station bomb kills one in Russia: officials,” from Reuters, May 7: (Reuters) – One woman was killed and five others injured when a bomb exploded on a train station platform in the southern Russian region of Dagestan Friday, local officials said….
• I Thought the War in Iraq Was a Victory for Iran?
  March 2009: In Ramadi, hundreds of Iraqis protest a visit by former Iranian President Rafsanjani.
  How many times have we heard that the war in Iraq was a victory for Iran? During almost every speech I’ve given, some audience member professes how stupid the Bush Administration was for failing to see that the majority of Iraq’s [...]
• The Press – Showing Up Before Barney Fife
  “horrified” law enforcement
  There comes a time when the press needs to draw the same line of respect as ordinary citizens and stay the hell out of the way during an investigation – especially one of national security significance.

  NPR reports,via the Corner at NRO, that the realtime cat-and-mouse game between Shahzad, the Press and law enforcement “was [...]

• Latest Stock Plunge: Another Fish That Will Get Away?
  Call me curious, but it seems like a lot of big fish in the financial world these last few years have all gotten away from us. Add this week’s odd and unexplained stock market nosedive to the list. It seems like it is past time for us to start demanding some answers.
  It’s amazing how quickly [...]
• Left Creates New Class of Victims, Illegal Aliens, While Real Victims Are Smeared as Racists
  People often say there is nothing worse than losing a child. Yes there is. Losing a child is only the beginning of the grief. How that child died is the other half. That knowledge will either bring a modicum of comfort, or intensify the pain.
  While the Left uses their usual tactics to muster feelings of [...]
• Of Kent State’s Brick-Throwing Pacifists
  Years ago, I made the mistake of asking an American student about her university, Kent State. Then, I made an even bigger mistake and mentioned the shootings – a lame pickup strategy, to be sure.  Anyway, she told me about the “massacre” from a lefty’s perspective. And if my memory serves me right, she talked [...]

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