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In Search of Sanity (opens the original)
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It’s hard to believe that at one time the staple of my news input consisted of NPR, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. But that was a different time and a different era entirely. Can you imagine PBS airing WF Buckley hosting Firing Line, or Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose series today? Certainly, the mainstream media always tilted left, but it has become as reliable and shameless as Pravda in the old Soviet Union. We’ve all seen the formerly respectable 60 minutes get caught red-hande
America at 250 (opens the original)
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Just prior to the Covid pandemic, I conducted a highly unscientific survey of 25 professionals, mostly employed in law, finance, and medicine. I asked a simple, straightforward yes or no question—will the United States be a single, sovereign entity in 10 years?The results were pretty sobering. Fourteen said yes. But eleven said no. And of the fourteen that said we would stay together, two said yes to 10 but no to 25. So, only a slight majority of those polled thought that the U.S. would hang tog
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