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The Phantom World Order
To set the record straight, I’m not prone to conspiracy theories. President Obama was born in Hawaii, the US government does not have a secret stash of extraterrestrial corpses, Elvis is dead, and Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK all by … Continue reading
A New Birth of Outrage
“Where’s the outrage?” the virtuous and moral Bill Bennett famously asked in his 1999 book, The Death of Outrage. Well, outrage is back, but I don’t think it’s what Mr. Bennett had in mind when he documented the moral failures … Continue reading