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What a difference a little perspective makes

Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by Peter

A case study in the phenomenon of “fake news” (or in any case, our inability to arrive at anything like an objective set of facts): Last Saturday in Portland, Oregon activists marched through the streets in protest of the police killing of a black man named Patrick Kimmons. At one point, a silver Lexus drove…

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Buttons on a gas pump

Democrats blaming high gas prices on Trump is stupid and self-defeating

Posted on June 1, 2018November 7, 2018 by Peter

Last week, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer hosted a press conference blaming high gas prices on Republican President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal did the same at a Shell station in Hartford. Per CTNewsJunkie.com: “[There are] clear steps that the President of the United States can take [to reduce gas prices],” Blumenthal said….

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what is keyword stuffing?

What Is Keyword Stuffing? or, Keyword Stuffing: What Is It?

Posted on October 9, 2017June 29, 2018 by Peter

What is keyword stuffing? Keyword stuffing is an out-out-of-date SEO tactic that attempted to influence search rankings for a specific page, for a specific keyword, by including that keyword on that page as many times as possible. Sometimes this meant working the keyword or phrase into poorly constructed sentences such as the following: If you’re…

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an old illustration of the beast from the sea as described by the book of revelation

Ban that God Damned Party Bike This Instant

Posted on August 4, 2017January 19, 2023 by Peter

And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. – Revelation 13:1

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The word 'Boycott' stenciled on a concrete wall.

Actually, There are *Two* Anti-BDS Bills in the Senate Right Now

Posted on July 24, 2017November 7, 2018 by Peter

There’s a lot of finger-wagging and tongue-clucking going on lately about “free speech.” The extreme right has appropriated the term as a rallying cry and dog-whistle so effectively that a bigoted murderer defiantly yelled “free speech or die” during his court hearing. On the flip side, militant leftists on and off campus have raised the…

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