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The media: What difference does it make?

Saturday, 11 May 2013 15:25 by Melanie Sturm
('76 Contributor) Stretching Oscar Wilde’s adage “I never put off til tomorrow what I can do the day after,” some in the mainstream media have finally started to Think Again about the Benghazi attack launched last year on the annive... [More]
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind

Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:48 by Melanie Sturm
 ('76 Contributor) In his 1831 book celebrating America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned, “In democratic societies, there exists an urge to do something even when the goal is not precise, a sort of permanent fever that turns to innovatio... [More]
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Political correctness belies its claims of tolerance

Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:19 by Melanie Sturm
('76 Contributor) Last month, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon and up-from-nothing African-American idol Ben Carson expressed his contrarian opinion that marriage is between a man and a woman and that no group could change this millennia-old soc... [More]
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Discerning frack from fiction

Saturday, 16 March 2013 15:17 by Melanie Sturm
(’76 Contributor) Last week, political, media and celebrity worlds converged to produce headlines worthy of “News of the Weird.” Sean Penn eulogized anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez as “a friend (America) never knew it had,... [More]