The Pleasant Valley War in Arizona - centered on a feud between the Graham and the Tewksbury families in the 1880s - reportedly left one man from the two families still standing at the end of the conflict.
Why did I think of this today? Oh, no particular reason.
The company is out in the middle of the pond, and the rifle-shot sounds of cracking ice are coming fast and furious: "Jury Finds CNN 'Committed Defamation Against Navy Vet Zachary Young' – CNN Owes Young $5 Million in Emotional and Financial Damages".
And it gets worse: "Defamation Trial Reveals Network Has Lost Hundreds of Millions in Revenue".
Maybe the owner of CNN, Warner Bros Discovery, should take a write-off and turn the network into a kind of national public-access channel, where communities can vie with one another in promoting DIY videos on quilting and bee-keeping and learning to play the zither. And no politics allowed, or you might wind up with a bunch of fringe kooks spouting nonsense - kind of like CNN now.
It’s dangerous, of course, for a society to have top institutions that are jokes, and that are rightly mocked and dismissed.
But until recently we had top institutions that were jokes and that were nonetheless taken seriously. So this is progress.
Come DJT Day, I think we’ll see that progress start in earnest. Enjoy your weekend.
"This is Not Your Grandpa's Democrat Party".
Although, I believe the signs were always there. From Wilson's attempts to restrict free speech to FDR's socialist dreams to the long march through the institutions of leftist propagandists posing as intellectuals to the war against traditional values in the public school system. There has always been a faction within the Democratic Party - at times, including now, too large to be known as simply a faction - that has worked to subvert the actual concepts of reality and norms and objective standards. If the Democrats were to organize into formal covens and celebrate satanic masses - as some no doubt do - we could not have clearer evidence of the vast, terrifying evil behind it all. There is far, far more than simply politics involved here, so we must continue our vigilance on all fronts, including, not least, the spiritual.
You know, I'd really like to see this guy tethered to something (to a lamppost by the neck wouldn't cause me to lose any sleep): "Weissmann: Pam Bondi Is ‘Not Tethered to Facts’ — We’re In for a ‘Rough Ride’".
Increase in the nations' support of Republicans (or, as is more likely, Trump): "Native Americans Shift Right".
Looks like we're all racists, now:A few things that were called "racist" during the Great Awokening: Fonts, mittens, milk, roads, band-aids, math, breakfast cereal, hiking, knitting, fish, countryside, earthquakes, salt, being nice, jogging, wives, sandwiches, science, dogs, dieting, scrabble, shoes, having sex… https://t.co/uGYCT8Thk9
— i/o (@eyeslasho) January 12, 2025
Biden keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means: "Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy ‘Achievements’.
Eisenhower > Biden: "Best farewell speech in my life".
Perfidious Albion:
