Well. That is the question, is it not?
Let’s start by clearing the underbrush. There are dozens of subordinate questions, such as the ethics of the thing and whether people should be expected to pay when the site’s making money from their presence anyway, all that. So let’s get that out of the way first and move on.
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War crimes? All war is a crime.
The concept of “war crimes” was an effort to pretend that war isn’t intrinsically a crime, and thus make it palatable for civilians and politicians. There are no just wars; there are no proper wars; there are no good wars. War is evil. That it is sometimes a necessary evil doesn’t make it any less evil. In 1944, we needed to invade Europe in order to defeat Nazi Germany; this means we had to do a bad thing to stop a worse thing.
Let’s all take that as read, shall we? While I can imagine objections to it, I can’t imagine any logical or well-reasoned ones. (If you disagree, that’s why we have a Comments section. Take your time and get it right, because if you don’t I’m going to mercilessly rip you apart. -Editor)
(more…)Hello, good evening, and welcome to another edition of the Not Fake News Update. Are you sitting comfortably? …Good.
It’s been a slow news week since the sub imploded, and media outlets around the world have begun poking random billionaires with long sticks to see if they can provoke them into doing something newsworthy. Alas for them, this has been ineffective thus far; however, there is still some hope of the Zuckerberg/Musk cage fight.
As always, however, things continue to happen around the world that major media has ignored and/or downplayed, though for what reason we at The Not Fake News can’t even hazard a guess. Lest our readers somehow miss something important, here are a few of the most newsworthy items:
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Or: I’m a Republican. Why the hell should I buy you a coffee, ya freeloader? Go get a job and buy your own damn coffee! I do my donating at church!
That’s what you’re thinking. I know because that’s the way I thought about it for a lot of years. Why should I pay for news when I get it for free? Why pay for a newspaper when I can just read it on their website? After all, I pay enormous sums for cable T.V., not to mention two different streaming services; CNN gives me news for free so everyone should!
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This may startle some of our more conservative readers, but I’m actually in agreement with the dissenting opinion in Biden v. Nebraska, the recent 6-3 decision that struck down the Administration’s student loan forgiveness program.
I’ve got a bone to pick with Biden on this, mind you. It’s clearly Presidential overreach, a cash giveaway that, if the Court hadn’t stopped it, Congress would have. Since he obviously knew this going into it, that makes it a stunt to get votes — and a particularly cruel one, since an awful lot of people out there are very deeply in debt during what anyone but a Boomer would have to admit are some of the worst economic times since the Depression.
BUT. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson are in the right, and the other six Justices in the wrong.
(more…)This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down another 6-3 ruling, including the conservative majority and the moderate Chief Justice, striking down Affirmative Action in higher education as opposed to the principles of the Fourteenth Amendment.
(Incidentally: Groff v. DeJoy was also decided today, 9-0 in favor of the plaintiff, who sued on the basis of religious discrimination for being disciplined for choosing not to work Sundays. This is not minor, and should not be neglected in your attention.)
But what does this mean, and what is implied? What institutions are shaken, which are weakened and which strengthened? For this, a deeper analysis of the ruling is essential.
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It’s a year since the Dobbs decision, and, at the moment when pregnancy charities anticipate a spike in demand for their services, donations have collapsed.
Leaving morality entirely to one side, let’s examine cold hard fact. The average price tag for an abortion is $1500; the cost of giving birth ranges between $12-25,000, not counting the $10,600 per year that a child costs to raise. And nobody is stepping up to pay it.
(more…)The headlines are filled with up-to-date reporting of the missing submersible that carried high-ticket tourists to view the wreck of the Titanic, which is doubtless very exciting and interesting, especially to those involved.
But while the poor (or, rather, rich in money only) passengers remain suspended in a Heisenbergian limbo of uncertainty, other things are happening in the world and it’s worth not losing sight of them.
Read on for details!
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The Secretary of Labor can’t get confirmed. Her own party is blocking her.
Normally, this wouldn’t be worth commenting on, even though Julie Su is not only fully qualified but also is actually doing the job right now. The Democrats, as we all know, are their own worst enemies and always have been. Rather than focusing on their opponents, they spend most of their time in office eating their own young. It’s been going on so long now, it’s acquired the force of tradition.
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