It’s become a ritual: Someone’s rampage shooting hits the news, the Left screams “AR-15!”, the Right sends “Thoughts and Prayers”, and nothing changes.
This time, like all the others, it turns out it was a mentally ill person who was nursing a grudge.
(more…)Beware the Ides of March, and also the Nones and Kalends while you’re at it. Mind you, technically speaking, the Ides of March would have referred to the first full moon of spring, which is due on the 6th of April, but that’s hardly important.
Speaking of unimportant things, your headlines have been full of them as usual. While you’ve been distracted, here are a few items of importance you might have missed:
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My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking — to talk with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President. 12 March, 1933
It’s been ninety years, and we still haven’t learned the lesson.
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It’s finally happened; I’ve lost track of who’s censoring what.
Everyone’s up in arms about the Florida school library mess, and from the outside that seems perfectly reasonable. We can’t be banning books just because we don’t like them, right? I mean, banning Harry Potter just because he’s a wizard is so 1980s.
(more…)Hello, good evening, and welcome to another exciting edition of the Update, coming to you every couple of weeks whether anything newsworthy has happened or not!
Looking back, we’re seeing the top headlines include Harry and Meghan, a war in which the battle lines haven’t shifted in months, Donald Trump for no good reason whatsoever, and apparently Disney is remaking the remake of a movie that was based on a ride that went away thirty years ago. Evidently, nothing newsworthy actually has happened.
But we’ll look anyway; maybe we can find something. Stay tuned!
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