[I was pondering a recent essay from Victor Davis Hanson when I remembered the following piece, which first appeared at Eternity Road on June 6, 2006. — FWP] *** Have you ever wondered why politicians and their affiliates lie? Why they betray their oaths and scamp their duties by deliberately misinforming the public? …
Category: communications
Mar 12 2025
Frontiers In Intolerance: Indie Publishing
While writers who’ve elected to go independent, exploiting the 21st Century’s gatekeeper-free outlets for publishing our fiction, have a variety of reasons for doing so, the retention of control over our works is prominent among them. Conventional publishers seldom permit a writer that degree of control. They demand changes of all sorts, ostensibly to …
Nov 25 2024
Outlets
The Left’s control of the communications industry – education, entertainment, news media – privileged them politically for several decades. They still command the heights in those three areas. However, they don’t want dominance; they want total, unblemished control: Staff are protesting against a new US imprint of global publisher Hachette Book Group (HBG) …
Jul 05 2024
“I’m Not Watching This Show Any More.”
Have you ever said that to yourself, Gentle Reader? Perhaps after the 2317th episode of some drama that once thrilled you, but whose writers and producers had apparently “lost the plot?” The onset of the condition can seem sudden. Yet no such transition from slavish dedication to “eff this” is anything but gradual. …
Apr 09 2024
Why The Decent Must Counter The Screams
The Progressive movement has always known the importance of the scream. Conservatives have, for the most part, been identified as the base of the “Silent Majority.” Indeed, we’ve had it beaten into us as a matter of pride that “we are not like them” by high minded voices such as William F. Buckley Jr. Well, …
Feb 15 2024
The Most Horrifying Possibility
What comes to mind when you hear or read the phrase “weapon of mass destruction?” For most, it stimulates thoughts of things that can wreak physical destruction. H-Bombs. Poison gases. Biowar bacteria and viruses. And yes, those certainly are nasty things we’d rather not have to face. But physical destruction isn’t the only …
Jul 11 2023
Death Cult Chronicling
Despite many of Dennis Prager’s colleagues recently recognizing the continuing advances of the murderous globalists, he and Prager U continue to avoid making any direct mention of death cultism. However, the following Prager U video demonstrates the many tools of the death cult. Its aim is global, one country at a time. It is clear …
Feb 11 2023
Mention of the Death Cult Has Entered the Mainstream
I am going to keep this brief. Ed Bonderenka, today on WAAM radio, provided us with the story. Included are clips of two good instances. You can hear him on podcast — at up to triple speed if you wish — at this link (for the date 2/11/2023.) The two audio clips are from this …
Dec 13 2022
Accountability: A Conundrum
From the most recent dump of Twitter Files: 38. Outside the United States, Twitter’s decision to ban Trump raised alarms, including with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, and Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. 39. Macron told an audience he didn’t “want to live in a democracy where …
Dec 01 2022
Meaning What?
It’s time for another tirade on clarity in expression. Let’s start with a little George Orwell: [O]ne ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.… Political language — and with variations …
Oct 21 2022
A Blast From…The Present?
All the yammering about “conspiracy theories” and “denialism” that emanates from the Left has triggered a memory of a half-humorous, ultimately serious piece I wrote long ago. It first appeared back at the old Palace of Reason, on May 14, 2004. I reproduce it here for your consideration. *** Bytes Of Contempt When your …
Oct 02 2022
Is it Safe? Part 1
The wannabe despot is a coward. Before he acts he needs to feel the environment has been well prepared before he makes the next move. The title of this series comes from the line endlessly repeated by the Lawrence Olivier character as he tortured the one portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. Well, in …
Aug 08 2022
A Spot of History
This comes from FEE, by way of our favorite Graybeard. It concerns the first important communications development of the 19th Century, the telegraph: In America, the first telegraph line was run by the federal government, from 1844 to 1846. As historian Burton Folsom explained, Cave Johnson, the Postmaster General, argued that the …
Feb 04 2022
A Completely Uncoded Message
If you’re not aware of them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the few organizations actively fighting for freedom of communication in today’s media, especially the Internet. They’ve made the unearthing, publicizing, and combating of threats to communications freedom and privacy their sole priority. They’re very good at it. So when the …
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