Better question: Does the media even care what we think? Answer: NO!-----MASSIVE SURVEY FINDS MOST AMERICANS SEE INTENTIONAL BIAS IN MEDIA

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MASSIVE SURVEY FINDS MOST AMERICANS SEE INTENTIONAL BIAS IN MEDIA
"The Gallup Poll and Knight Foundation surveyed 20,000 Americans just before the Pandemic began on their opinions of the news media and came up with confirmation of what folks on the Right have been saying for decades:

“Many Americans feel the media’s critical role of informing and holding those in power accountable is compromised by increasing bias. 
As such, Americans have not only lost confidence in the ideal of an objective media, they believe news organizations actively support the partisan divide. 
At the same time, Americans have not lost sight of the value of news — strong majorities uphold the ideal that the news media is fundamental to a healthy democracy.”
And more specifically:
“Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they see too much bias in the reporting of news that is supposed to be objective as “a major problem” (73%), up from 65% in the 2017 study.
“Nearly 8 in 10 Americans (79%) say news organizations they distrust are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain viewpoint, while 12% say they are trying to report the news accurately and fairly but are unable to do so.”
There is much, much more in these data." 

• Next question: Is anybody in the media listening? I seriously doubt it.--Posted by Mark Tapscott"

"COVID pneumonia"?---2 more Florida teens die of complications related to COVID-19, data show

2 more Florida teens die of complications related to COVID-19, data show
"Two more teenagers — a 16-year-old girl from Miami-Dade County and a 17-year-old boy from Manatee County — have died from COVID-related complications in Florida, according to health department data.
...There was no further information on the 17-year-old boy.
The girl, who had pre-existing conditions including spina bifida and hydrocephalus, died from COVID pneumonia, the report said...Read all.

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Homicides Skyrocket In Dozens Of Nation’s Largest Cities, Analysis Finds | The Daily Caller

Homicides Skyrocket In Dozens Of Nation’s Largest Cities, Analysis Finds | The Daily Caller:

In total, 36 of 50 of America’s largest cities examined saw a double-digit rise in homicide rates, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Austin and Chicago’s homicide rates have increased more than 50% in comparison to last year’s rates, according to the Journal.

The Truth About Crime, Race, and Policing in America

"Center of the American Experiment welcomes Heather Mac Donald to answer one of today's most important questions: are the police racist?"

Another study...

Surprised?-----July Breaks Gun Sales Record as Gun Company's Earnings Triple

July Breaks Gun Sales Record as Gun Company's Earnings Triple:

• Gun company's earnings triple, CEO says sales 'like nothing we've seen before'

One of the country's leading gun makers saw earnings triple as gun sales once again shattered previous records for the month of July.
...Killoy said the surge in sales reflected Americans' concerns over current events. 

"This staggering increase in demand appears to be attributable to a few factors," Killoy said. "Number one, concerns about personal protection and home defense stemming from continuing COVID-19 pandemic; protests, demonstrations, and civil unrest in many cities throughout the United States and, lastly, the call by some for the reduction in funding and authority of various law enforcement organizations." 

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Portland: What Does It Mean? | Frontpagemag

Portland: What Does It Mean? | Frontpagemag:

• The issue that will re-elect Donald Trump in November.

"Perhaps the most emblematic moment in the battles raging in American cities came the other day when Bernie Sanders attacked President Trump’s decision to send federal agents to quell the riots in Portland Oregon.
His alleged reason: they bear the earmarks of a “police state.” 
This, from a man who spent the entire sixty years of his adult life supporting every ruthless, communist police state on the planet – and there were many – and who to this day declares his solidarity with the police states in the West Bank and Gaza run by his terrorist comrades in the PLO and Hamas.
Of course these twisted values have made him the most popular Democrat leader.

Our cities are under siege by communists like Bernie and other self-declared enemies of America...Read all.

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Lawmaker calls teaching history 'miseducation' and demands halt

Lawmaker calls teaching history 'miseducation' and demands halt:

A former history teacher who now is a Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois is leading an effort to temporarily stop history classes in his state, contending they have helped form a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.

Myths the Media Perpetuate About Gun Control | RealClearPolitics

Myths the Media Perpetuate About Gun Control | RealClearPolitics
"The push to disarm Americans, such as Pamela and Mark McCloskey of St. Louis, stems from the belief that disarming the public will make us safer.
But those beliefs arise from myths perpetrated by the media.
...They do this not only by choosing what crimes to cover (or not cover), but also by the statistics and research that they choose to relay. 
...Here are just five of the three dozen myths that I discuss in my new book, “Gun Control Myths.”

• Myth 1: Los Angeles Times: “Why the U.S. is No. 1 — in mass shootings”

This claim is based on one study by Adam Lankford at the University of Alabama. Lankford asserted that the U.S. accounted for 31% of mass public shooters from 1966 to 2012, despite having less than 5% of the world population.

But for over four years, he refused requests from both academics and media outlets, including Real Clear Politics, Fox News, and the Washington Post, to release his data.
When he finally released his list of cases after I had published an academic paper going through the data, it was clear why he had waited so long.
He had over-counted cases in the U.S. and missed thousands of others in the rest of the world.
The United States accounted for just 1% of the shooters — far less than its share of the world population. 
France, Switzerland, Russia, Finland, and Norway all have substantially higher per capita fatality rates than does the U.S.
Indeed, France’s rate is 111% higher than ours.
By far, the worst mass public shootings have occurred in Europe...Read all.

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History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Louella Parsons 1881, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881


Lucille Ball 1911, Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928



1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)

Tucker Carlson: ‘Normal Americans … Don’t Have The Same Privilege As John Lewis’ Friends’ | The Daily Caller

Tucker Carlson: ‘Normal Americans … Don’t Have The Same Privilege As John Lewis’ Friends’ | The Daily Caller:

The late Civil Rights icon was memorialized in a series of events last week that culminated in a crowded funeral where former President Barack Obama used a portion of his eulogy to slam the Senate filibuster as a “Jim Crow relic.”
Carlson argued that strict social distancing rules like the ones that exist in Washington D.C. are “a lot to ask of a population,” but only work if they apply “to everyone, because science doesn’t work if it only applies to the people without power and not to the people who do have power.”
“But that’s exactly what’s happening,” he said.

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Steve Scalise on Gov. Whitmer's 'Sickening' Veto

Steve Scalise on Gov. Whitmer's 'Sickening' Veto
"...Way back when Michigan reported its first COVID cases, the Health Care Association of Michigan made a reasonable suggestion for the governor. 

They asked her to move infected nursing home residents to vacant facilities, which could be used as quarantine centers. 

But Whitmer insisted that the best approach would be to keep COVID patients in "isolated" areas still inside the nursing homes.
Nursing home deaths climbed. 

A total of 38,000 residents were living in nursing homes, with 1,947 deaths reported. 

Put in a more startling perspective, about 33 percent of the state's COVID-related deaths have been nursing home residents or employees. 

Sen. Peter Lucid (R-Shelby Township) had seen enough and introduced a measure, Senate Bill 956, to finally move COVID patients to separate facilities. 

Whitmer vetoed it on Friday.
In a letter defending her veto, Gov. Whitmer said that the bill was based on "the false premise that isolation units created within existing facilities are somehow insufficient to protect seniors..."
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) didn't accept her reasoning and said that her veto was "sickening."

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The Troubling Goals of the Black Lives Matter Movement

The Troubling Goals of the Black Lives Matter Movement
"...Which brings me to the Black Lives Matter movement. 
How many mainstream reporters have bothered to delve into the background and founding principles of the rapidly spreading organization to which even white CEOs are contributing gobs of money in what appears to be an attempt to protect themselves and their businesses from any potential charge of racism?
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, which self-describes as “an ecumenical, nonprofit research organization that promotes the benefits of free enterprise to religious communities, business people, students and educators,” has exposed the ideology of Black Lives Matter.
According to Acton, the founding principles of BLM include a 

• guaranteed minimum income for all black people, 
• free health care, 
• free schooling, 
• free food, 
• free real estate, 
• gender reassignment surgery, and 
• free abortion (already disproportionately high among African American women, “27.1 per 1,000 women compared with 10 per 1,000 for white women,” but apparently unborn black lives don’t matter to BLM).

• Washington, D.C.’s local BLM chapter has even called for “no new jails” (which would likely guarantee an increase in crime, much of it perpetrated in black communities—see the District’s crime stats, see Chicago, see Los Angeles). 
• BLM also demands reparations and wants to create a “global liberation movement” that will “overturn U.S. imperialism [and] capitalism.”
• According to The New York Post, “Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are ‘trained Marxists.'”

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