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I Told You So.
I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ but I did. I told Uri Berliner too. Berliner laid waste to National Public Radio in an article in The Free Press…
Apr 22
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NPR: An Assembly Line of Woke Narratives
Daily it seems, woke narratives are coming under greater and more destructive fire. It’s beginning to look like lying and distorting facts, cancelations…
Apr 12
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Robert Franklin
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In Limbo
Sitting here in limbo Waiting for the tide to flow. – Jimmy Cliff Amid the furor of public discourse that seems to become more unhinged with each…
Apr 8
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March 2024
For the Woke, the Craziness is the Point
The deep craziness of the woke and woke ideology is well known. (Here are a couple of recent examples, laid waste by Andrew Sullivan.) What’s less well…
Mar 20
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Robert Franklin
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Radical Feminists, Science and the Rule of Law
With all the extreme craziness in the world a lot gets obscured. That’s particularly true of the older, better-established craziness that tends to be…
Mar 5
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February 2024
No Surprise:
Liberal Elites Don’t Think Like the Rest of Us
Feb 12
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Robert Franklin
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January 2024
Trump at the Heart of Populism
So, Trump won in Iowa and New Hampshire. We knew he would. Much of the corporate press relentlessly urged the narrative that their latest favorite long…
Jan 26
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L’affaire Claudine Gay: Another Milestone Passed
I didn’t think I’d do a piece on l’affaire Claudine Gay, but I’ve decided it’s too important to ignore. I think that because it may just turn out to be…
Jan 5
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Robert Franklin
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December 2023
A Desolation that None Call Peace
They make a desolation and call it peace. – Tacitus Shortly after the October 7th invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists, I posted this piece calling…
Dec 29, 2023
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A Travesty in Colorado
As the world now knows, the Supreme Court of Colorado has ruled that Donald Trump’s name may not appear on the Centennial State’s ballot for the…
Dec 22, 2023
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The Continuing Rejection of Elite Policies
On his Substack page, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has an amazing piece. The gist is that the two top generals in the war in Ukraine…
Dec 9, 2023
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Robert Franklin
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November 2023
Democrats Sleepwalking Toward a Cliff
As we slip-slide into another presidential election season, an important question persists: will Joe Biden really be the Democratic nominee? Every…
Nov 17, 2023
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