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And why would it? The profitability of news organizations has always been a mixed bag. Network news tended to be a value add to get people watching a particular channel. CNN made cable news into a viable business model back when breaking news meant cable. In the internet age, breaking news means social media.  CNN’s…

Language is culture and dictionaries have been relentless players in the culture wars, changing the definition of what a woman or what a recession is to keep pace with political correctness. But then there’s going even further to create an entire dictionary for a particular group. That’s what the Oxford Dictionary is doing to keep…

The Taliban complained that the airstrike that took out Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri violated the Doha agreement. Secretary of State Blinken retorted that hosting the Al Qaeda leader in Kabul violated Doha.  Not that anyone in their right mind should have expected anything else. The scam agreement, negotiated under the auspices of the Taliban’s Qatari state…

You have to ask, if Communist China were calling the shots in D.C., how would things be any different? The Joint Committee on Taxation has already shown that the Schumer-Manchin ‘Inflation Increase Act’ would “overwhelmingly hit U.S. manufacturers.” The National Association of Manufacturers has warned that the inflationary payout to Green investors, including subsidizing Teslas…

The media responded to an announcement by Andrew Yang and Christine Whitman that they’ll form a third party (more like a fortieth party) by rolling out a barrage of attacks about how third parties don’t work. True, they don’t. But why get so worked up over it? The media quite enthusiastically touted “third party” runs…