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"Inducing panic" is a crime? Maybe it's time to lock up Rachel Maddow

An engaged couple in Ohio created a #FakeCrimeScene by splashing some ketchup around the bathtub, posing the fiancée as if she were dead, then texting the photos to family members.The reason, as if you really need a reason for such an endeavor, was that the fiance’s sister owed him money, and they were trying to induce her to come over. To pay him the money, I guess.

Risner had texted his

#FakeSatire and joking about a cancer survivor

The host of an alleged “comedy” (sneer quotes!) program called “Full Frontal,” Samantha Bee is one of the foremost purveyors of #FakeSatire. Her formula is to take #FakeNews from sources like Vox, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Salon, and other leftist propaganda outfits, and fashion the innuendo and lies contained therein into “comedy” (more sneer quotes!) bits for the delectation of the clapping

Trump Insurance

Arrow: Or, Virtue Rewarded

In the early 1700s, as printing technology expanded and became more affordable, books were no longer strictly available to the aristocratic classes. The great unwashed gained access and, as you might expect, this caused considerable consternation among the cultural elites. They could handle the subtleties and complexities of fiction. But moral ambiguity would be lost on the working class.

The mass hysteria or double movie or cult of leftism

Last week on the leftist propaganda program Saturday Night Live they aired a short video in which Kellyanne Conway was portrayed as having a “fatal attraction” for Jake Tapper, the Clinton/Democrat sympathizer who hosts a daily program on the Democrat party’s cable propaganda arm, CNN. There was some virtual ink spilled over whether or not the piece was sexist. That’s not really important (I

Self defense from bad ideas

Free speech is under attack by violent fascists who are laughably calling themselves "anti-fascists."



Things are getting worse.



One college group apparently had a workshop to teach jerks how to beat people up for having the unapproved opinions.

Marvel’s leftist turn has been killing the comic book industry—maybe its course correction can save it

For most of my lifetime, Marvel has outsold DC, often dominating them by wide margins. However, since DC’s Rebirth event (which corrected their “New 52” misfire), DC has dominated Marvel in comics sales. What DC’s editorial braintrust has done is return to what it’s calling “meat and potatoes” storytelling. Basically, this means taking the emphasis off politics and quirks and emphasizing classic

Is it okay to punch a nazi’s cell phone provider?

A lot of trendy leftists—including some famous people—are claiming that it’s admirable to “punch nazis.” Unfortunately, after decades of overuse, the term “nazi” has basically come to mean “anyone who disagrees with me.” It’s even deployed against people who have explicitly criticized and disavowed nazi ideas.

People like Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay, ethnically Jewish Catholic immigrant

Will the Fake Satire of Samantha Bee destroy the loathsome White House Correspondents' Dinner?

One of the best things about having Trump as president is the fact that the press—in particular the dying legacy media—have again taken an adversarial position toward executive power. For eight years, Barack Obama actively lied about big things (the Iran nuclear deal, Obamacare) and little things (having heard of Snooki). All along, the legacy media covered for him, endlessly.His venal

Please someone release "Guardians" in America

This new Russian superhero movie, "Guardians", appears to be the perfect mix of flattery (imitation) and cray-zy (a half-man/half-bear with giant guns).



I have no interest in the new "Wonder Woman", "Thor", "Justice League" or etc movies. This, on the other hand, makes me feel something vaguely like excitement.

Of course, for those who were sent into a rage spiral by Black Widow's sadness