What does “Slava Ukraina!” actually mean? Well, it means, literally, “Glory to Ukraine!” Doesn’t it sound a bit odd to offer glory to a nation? That is because it is. “Glory to Ukraine!” or alternatively “Glory to the Heroes!” are both salutations by the neo-Nazi group known as the Azov Battalion, or Azov Brigade. Does […]
Congress Is Still Unfit to Govern by James Bovard “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon is reputed to have said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated last December by approving a 5593-page bill without reading it. Plenty of activists and editorial pages howled over […]
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The American nation is in big trouble. Christianity Daily and a few other conservative media outlets ran a piece on Friday, November 20, noting how Dominion Voting Systems refused to attend a hearing regarding their equipment changing votes to Biden from Trump en masse during the November 3 elections. Christianity Daily’s Julio Cachila writes [slightly […]
Many Americans feel like they have a miserable choice of presidential candidates this year. But the same pattern goes back at least to the end of the Reagan era. For decades, presidents have had far more power than they can be trusted with. Here are election season pieces I wrote on this theme in 1988 […]
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The Republican convention was a smash hit among Trump supporters. In fact, those supporters are not merely Republicans.
Please do not misunderstand. My personal regard for Fox News is actually the highest among American mainstream media outlets. To their great credit, they have been very fair to candidate and now President Donald Trump, and they usually demonstrate a good level of proficiency in outlining the news from a conservative point of view, as long as it is regarding domestic policy.
21st Century Wire says…
Are we already seeing the results of political ignorance?
In the first episode of a new video interview series, Stuart J. Hooper speaks with the University of New Mexico’s Professor Mike Rocca.
Rocca explains how civic ignorance has become an issue in society, and is asked what it means to have politically ignorant leaders holding seats with political power:
