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The Taliban took back Afghanistan in the late summer of 2021, shortly after the Americans withdrew, tired and weary and broke after nearly 20 years of fighting. They seized control of the country in the broad and particular sense: setting up command in the presidential palace in Kabul and targeting the individuals who criticized the new government. By December 2021, regular Afghans and the members of the Afghan press who had expressed critical views of their new rulers had “been subjected to months of intimidation and fear.” The Biden Administration has adopted these same tactics, calling for their critics to...

Millions of ordinary people would like to try Obama’s “truthiness tests” on both him and his 3rd term seeker Hillary Clinton and her media peeps Given our getting-crazier-by-the-day world, it’s little wonder how a three decades ago Mrs. Bill Clinton of Arkansas is being recycled as America’s First Woman President. Abortion advocating, sexual assault shushing Mrs. Bill Clinton, last seen laughing uproariously with Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the Al Smith dinner, has crowned herself as the world Saviour of Women and Children, and her remaining years of life will be chronicled by history.

President Barack Obama floated the notion of a test for media organizations, griping about the wide-spread existence of alternative media available in America. He was critical of the current Wild West online environment where people could say anything on social media or on news websites. “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to,” he said. Throughout his presidency, Obama has repeatedly complained about the existence of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, causing division amongst Americans and making his job difficult, but he rarely offers a solution. This time,...

As you know by now, earlier this week the Obama administration struck a nuclear deal with Iran, claiming "the most intrusive inspections ever" were part of the negotiation process. First, lets take a step back to April when White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said the White House was demanding anytime, anywhere, 24/7 inspections. "We will have anytime, anywhere access to the nuclear facilities." As Guy has pointed out, Obama's Energy Secretary also said anytime, anywhere inspections were expected with a deal. But fast forward to this week and Rhodes is claiming anytime, anywhere inspections weren't ever on the table...

I just read that Cowardly Central is holding a rally at the Mall just before the elections. I'm impressed that Colbert and Stewart have emerged from under their desks after that dreadful Islamic scare in Times Square. But we need some "agents provocateurs" in the crowd to record the proceedings and perhaps have some fun. Suggestions here:

Virgin boss RICHARD BRANSON threw a glass of water over U.S TV host STEPHEN COLBERT after he was banned from talking about his new budget airline. Branson was being interviewed by Colbert in a front of a live studio audience in New York when he attacked the host. Colbert, who fronts The Colbert Report, retaliated by throwing a bottle of water at Branson. A Virgin spokesman insists Branson was invited on the show to talk about his new low cost U.S. service, but was banned from doing so once the cameras started rolling. The spokesman adds, "Richard did throw his...

Barack Oprahbama just flew into Detroit this week and gosh his arms must have been tired. Barack says the darndest things when he’s tired. He let his true lack of experience and judgment shine through when addressing automobile mileage standards. "While our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon," Obama said. The hybrid Prius does pretty well, but the Japanese still lack access to the Starship Enterprise’s Transporter Room. Toyota offered a modest fact-check to...

All in a Good Cause Here's a story you haven't heard, and you should have. An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He's not a spy, he's an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let's call him "Mann." The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. And the original numbers aren't giving him that data. So the agency he works for won't be able to persuade people to fight the...

Cable TV satirist Stephen Colbert coined a term "truthiness," which the online encyclopedia Wikipedia explains is "to claim to `know' something ... `from the gut' without regard to evidence, logic ... or actual facts." Truthiness, thus, is an emotional appeal meant to short-circuit intellectual examination of claims being made. A prime example of its effectiveness came in late December when environmental lobbyists persuaded the Bush administration to recommend that the polar bear be listed as threatened due to global warming. In lieu of evidence, environmentalists offered mostly anecdotes that polar bears are at risk: isolated reports of a few polar...

Comedian wants credit for coining ‘truthiness’ Joel Jeffries / AP file NEW YORK - Stung by a recent Associated Press article that didn’t credit him for coining the word “truthiness,” Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has struck back. The world’s oldest news organization, Colbert says, is the “No. 1 threat facing America.” On Wednesday evening, Colbert placed the AP atop the Threat Down segment of “The Colbert Report” show. What was No. 2? Bears. In October, on Colbert’s debut episode of the “Daily Show” spinoff, the comedian defined “truthiness” as truth that wouldn’t stand to be held back by facts. The...

ALBUQUERQUE Jan 6, 2006 — A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts. The American Dialect Society chose the word Friday after a runoff with terms related to Hurricane Katrina, such as "Katrinagate," the scandal erupting from the lack of planning for the monster hurricane. Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specializes in lexicology, said "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty." "The national argument right now is, one, who's got the truth and,...