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Whoever Controls the Narrative Controls The World

PERSPECTIVE--MSNBC host Joy Reid still has a job. Despite blatantly lying about time-traveling hackers bearing responsibility for bigoted posts a decade ago in her then-barely-known blog, despite her reportedly sparking an FBI investigationon false pretenses, despite her colleagues at MSNBC being completely fed up with how the network is handling the controversy surrounding her, her career just keeps trundling forward like a bullet-riddled zombie.

The Nobel and the Trumpster

GUEST WORDS--Modesty and unselfishness-these are virtues which men praise-and pass by. — André Maurois, Ariel

Roseanne: Trump Without the Teflon

PACIFIC STANDARD-Two television stars take to Twitter to spread hateful and often racist conspiracy theories. One has her show suddenly yanked off the air. The other becomes president of the United States.

Murder By Ineptitude: Americans Sat By and Allowed Fellow Americans to Die without a Peep

SHAME ON US ALL--In appalling but unsurprising news at the edgy start of another hurricane season, a crippled Puerto Rico and a criminally incognizant dotard-in-chief are still with us.

History Will Vindicate Modern Abolitionists

IMMIGRATION POLITICS-The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was authorized by the U.S. Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the compromise between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

Emperor of the World

HULLABALOO--Last Wednesday I wrote a pieceheadlined "Trump’s contempt for the rule of law:

Trump’s Opposition to Unrestricted Globalism Might Prove a Historical Necessity

NEW GEOGRAPHY-Let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is a vulgar, ignorant and often reckless narcissist. Yet he also may well prove a historical necessity, someone who, intentionally or not, has rendered apart a bi-partisan consensus well past its usefulness.