HeyJaredWAR OF THE WORDS: Language, Lies, and the Left
The intellectual background to today's political chaos, and what to do about it.
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Rapper to audience: Sieg Heil! (opens the original)
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Rapper Macklemore, opening for a concert last week by Ed Sheeran, announced this to his audience:“Kill all the Jews in Israel! Destroy its democratic government and replace it with the Caliphate!”You think I’m mistaken? Here’s the actual verbiage he employed:“Free Palestine!”Translation: See above.Slogans are shorthand for meanings not immediately evident. The shorthand itself seems to have meaning but doesn’t. Only when the intent of the slogan is investigated does a sloga
What’s in a name? A psycho by any other name.... (opens the original)
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The researcher above has found evidence that many more children than we’ve been told have been killed by their mothers, deliberately or not, during the months of the Lindsay Clancy trial. And before that? Who knows how many child killings have gone unpublicized. Yes, that is pure conjecture. But this is not:In 1486 a book called Malleus Maleficarum (translated as The Hammer of Witches) was published that made a strong case for the existence of witchcraft and the need to prosecute the women (and
Thousands cheer fraud and murder (opens the original)
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I’m out of excuses as to why I have slowed down to about one posting per month. All right, I’ve got one last excuse: Too much is happening too quickly. For this posting for example I have chosen two incidents out of dozens I might have picked. As politics and culture and war and morality all huddle beneath the umbrella of world events, I am increasingly indecisive as to what to write about. Nonetheless. I’ve settled on two. Here they are.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https:/
Science is not what Ricky Gervais (and a lot of other people) think it is. (opens the original)
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Ricky Gervais is a funny guy. I love his humor and I prize particularly his famous hosting of the Golden Globes a few years back, in which he tore into the political hypocrisy of Hollywood celebs.But I do wish he’d stop talking about science. On numerous platforms including Stephen Colbert’s late show, Gervais has preached his gospel of science as Always True and Always the Same. It would be hilarious if not for the fact that, to judge from the response he got on Colbert, large gobs of people ag
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