The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism
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| Aug. 22, 2017 |
Good morning from Washington, just hours after the big solar eclipse and President Trump's big speech on our continuing military commitment in Afghanistan. We've got highlights on the latter from Fred Lucas and commentary from Luke Coffey. U.S. ally Ukraine denies a role in helping North Korea advance its missile technology. Nolan Peterson reports. What's with The New York Times' softness on communism? Jarrett Stepman begs to differ. Plus: Peter Parisi on Hollywood's aggressive defense of profanity and violence, and your responses to Charlottesville and what followed. |
CommentaryThe New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing CommunismProgressives have created a fanciful and distorted picture of socialism to make it seem like an intriguing alternative to American-style capitalism. |
News6 Takeaways as Trump Recommits US to 'Defeat the Enemy' in AfghanistanPresident Trump announces an unspecified surge of troops in Afghanistan to "kill terrorists" and "defeat the enemy" during a prime-time address last night to soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia. |
CommentaryPresident Lays Out a Winning Strategy for AfghanistanIn what is by far his best and most statesmanlike speech since taking office, Trump outlines a new approach to the ongoing war in Afghanistan. |
NewsUkraine Fires Back Against Claims That Its Rocket Engines Ended Up in North Korean HandsMichael Elleman, the author of the International Institute for Strategic Studies report cited in The New York Times story, later took to Twitter to walk back the quote attributed to him in the Times in which he said the engines more likely came from Ukraine than Russia. |
CommentaryHollywood Wants to Force This Profanity-Filtering Service Out of Business, and May SucceedNearly half (45 percent) of Republicans surveyed, compared with just 1 in 4 (25 percent) Democrats, find the "F-bomb" objectionable, a poll found. |
NewsKaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence ThomasFree agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a Black Lives Matter collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. |
CommentaryWe Hear You: White Supremacists, Black Lives Matter, and Antifa in Charlottesville"Shutting down speech is fascism," Brad Gillespie says of those who met white supremacists with violence. "So who, really, is a fascist?" |
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