Dead Cant Rant

Something to think about whenever you hear someone promoting the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”:
Notice that “factoid” at the bottom of the screen?
Congress temporarily suspended “equal time” rule for candidates on TV to allow the Nixon-Kennedy debate
Remember that when you hear talk of re-installing the so called “fairness doctrine”.
It prevents free and open discussion of politics. You [...]

The average score on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Civics Literacy Quiz is 49%. College teachers only score a meager 55%.
I got 91% with my dumb ol’ Alabama High School edumucashion.
Now if only I could write well enough to demonstrate it…
Incidentally, Renee found a lot of free material at the ISI website. Their “Online Education in [...]

Chris Hedges says it best:
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images [...]

The University of Delaware has been requiring students to undergo re-education in order to learn that all whites are racist and all problems are caused by white racism.
Yes, this was required learning in mandatory sessions held in the dorms.
The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from [...]

This is bizarre…
A Missouri company has been fined $6,000 for not reporting a customer’s question to the federal government. The question that’s punished by law is: Are any of these products made in Israel, or made of Israeli materials?

I know this is the Onion, but seriously, what the f*ck is this?
MENA, AR—After an extensive three-month-long search, the Polk County Sheriff’s Department located missing 9-year-old Ethan Davis in an abandoned home, rescued the child from his captors, and returned him to his loving parents, the still bound and gagged boy imagined Tuesday.
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“I’m so happy [...]