Thomas Wictor

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Psychopaths are reporting the news from Iraq

I learned in 2014 that most western journalists are psychopaths, meaning they lack a conscience and have antisocial tendencies. The current depraved version of events in Iraq is a perfect example of what these creatures produce. This is an attempt to once again both denigrate those fighting for freedom and inflate the capabilities of the…

 

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Media doublethink hits all-time high

It’s annoying to have to wade through swamps of manure in order to find the truth. This evening I had a conversation with my brother Tim about doublethink, a term coined by George Orwell in his dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-four. Doublethink is the ability to accept two mutually contradictory beliefs. It’s part of newspeak, the…

 

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The Orwellian reporting on Yemen

As I get older, I become less able to put up with organized dishonesty. I loathe groups that work together to spread lies. The Orwellian reporting on Yemen signifies that western culture is nearing a point of no return. The rot runs so deep that we may not recover. George Orwell’s novel 1984 is truly…

 

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And you thought the lies about Israel were bad…

It’s a dangerous time in our history. It appears that almost everyone can be bought. The lies about Israel told during Operation Protective Edge were just the beginning. As far as I can tell, everything being reported about Yemen is untrue. My guess is that journalists and members of “human rights” organizations have been bought…

 

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Not even George Orwell thought of it

My mother CeeCee Lower Wictor was a rebel. Her rebellion took the form of quietly, politely, and very gently refusing to conform to society’s expectations of what a Mexican-American woman born in 1928 was supposed to be. She and I never got along—until the last three years of her life. Then I became her closest…

 

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Stop praising our enemies’ nonexistent prowess

I just read an opinion piece titled, “Is Iran Preparing for a Two-Front War With Israel?” It’s part of the now-standard approach that the press adopted during World War II of granting our enemies a nonexistent prowess in order to sell papers. Bad news is far more popular than good. In the ensuing years, however,…

 

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No, snipers are not cowards

The sign of a mediocre mind is having passionate opinions without factual knowledge. Former filmmaker Michael Moore has made a career of telling imbeciles what they want to hear. Now he’s sounding off on military snipers. First of all, it’s a lead-pipe cinch that Moore didn’t have an uncle who was killed by a sniper…

 

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The flocking hefters of the anti-Israel movement

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a furious warning about what happens when political leaders become corrupt and the public decides to scoop out its brains and fling them against the wall. I read the book only once; that was enough. Orwell was one of the greatest thinkers in human history. What’s hideously ironic—and extremely funny…

 

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Count me out of your brave new world

A happy British oncologist says that expensive cancer drugs should be withheld from the elderly and given to the young. Dr. Karol Sikora (pronounced “sick aura”) is worried about the costs. Well, count me out of the you-live, you-die lottery. If it comes down to “justifying expenses,” as the doctor says, then I’ll cheerfully give…

 

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Thinking is hard

If there’s anyone who understands how tough life can be, it’s this guy. The one writing this post. I perfectly understand your desire to maintain an even strain. Thinking is hard. It forces you to make decisions that you feel will violate your personal codes of conduct. Well, there’s your problem. Adopting rigid, arbitrary standards…

 

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