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“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Criticizing the press is one thing. Using government access to punish coverage a president dislikes is another.

We are losing natural intelligence and thus risk seduction by something that can do the thinking for us.
AI should be taken seriously, but we probably need not panic as with so many other doomsday predictions.
Milk can turn sour. So can the “mother’s milk” of politics.
America has been suffering from voter turnoff instead of voter turnout for some time.
It’s easy to say “never forget,” but each generation must be taught to remember.
Trump is not alone in changing names for political and woke purposes.
Denial is not a cure and refusing examination is certain to allow cancer to spread.

What Republicans need to do this year is to get inoculated with a heavy dose of optimism.
“That’s what the politicians say, but I never trust a politician.”
“It’s 9 a.m. Do you know what your children are being taught?”
Prison Fellowship, started by Charles Colson, invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.

Some consider new refineries a bad financial risk as the country shifts toward renewable energy and electric vehicles. That sounds like defeatism to me.
Reruns that always annoy are the political ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the November election.

“They say that the purpose of democratic socialism is to bring equality ... but what equality does it bring?”
People who think Hamas will ever lay down their weapons and reach a peace deal with Israel are playing into the hands of our enemies.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who rose to international fame during the Covid-19 pandemic, fed his ego, causing great harm to others.
Trump seems incapable of self-deprecation, because he is a malignant narcissist, believing the world revolves around him.