Posted on April 10th, 2021 by Winston Smith
(1) Viacom/CBS, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAC), a publicly traded company, goes full commie. Does anyone remember MomCorp from Futurama? >>> The Star Trek Communist Hopes Star Trek Can Inspire A Real Revolution (1a) ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish’s Pay Rises to $39 Million in 2020 (Hollywood Reporter) (1b) Viacom Stock Is A Bargain Pullback Opportunity (Investing.com)
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Posted on March 17th, 2021 by Winston Smith
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of fifteen-days to flatten the curve. Still drafting a post on Walt and the Walt Disney Co. but Sarah Hoyt linked to this on Chicago Boyz. My own comment on Instapundit related to Deleting Disney: “I would go to WDW to see traces of Walt’s influence (search ‘Mary Blair’s Grand […]
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Posted on December 27th, 2018 by Winston Smith
Post was originally published on August 16th 2018 It’s really simple (and in the irony of all ironies) would make an incredible Hollywood blockbuster. During the Obama Administration, federal agencies (CIA, FBI, DOJ, NSA, etc.) used opposition research from the Hillary Clinton campaign to spy on candidate/nominee Trump. He was also spied on as President-elect […]
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Posted on July 27th, 2018 by Winston Smith
(1) The Blue-State Housing Bubble (American Thinker) (2) Connecticut is drowning in debt. Should the rest of us have to pay? (Washington Post) (3) Carol Platt Liebau: Not one cent more (Connecticut Post) “Here’s the truth: Connecticut has not suffered for lack of transportation money. Rather, the governor (like his predecessors) and the legislature have […]
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Posted on March 17th, 2018 by Winston Smith
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell (1) The Reckoning of the FBI Has Begun (2) The Real Collusion Story (National Review) (3) Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in […]
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Posted on July 1st, 2016 by Winston Smith
(1) Liberal Cosmopolitans Lash Out at the Shattering of Their Worldview (National Review) “Liberal cosmopolitanism, regnant since the end of the Cold War, has bought completely into its own rightness. It is entirely devoted to an increasingly borderless political future carefully managed by technocrats and tempered by “compassion” and “tolerance” — all of which aims […]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2015 by Winston Smith
(1) Checkmate: The Economic Chess Masters Play a Losing Game (National Review) “The nature of our technologically enabled present global connectedness means that for the first time in human history all economic activity happens in immediate relation to everything else. You cannot isolate the variables, which is a real problem if you believe in political […]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2012 by Winston Smith
(1) The Joys of Urban Tech: Goodbye, office parks. Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities (WSJ) (2) Orwell’s Guide to Making Jam: George Orwell’s show a man famous for his political journalism more concerned with raising chickens. (WSJ) Orwell is still (maybe more) relevant today… The familiar tirades against “escapism,” […]
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Posted on July 31st, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Trouble on the China Express (WSJ) In a blistering essay titled “The Derailed Country,” posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of China’s most popular bloggers, mocked the leadership for what he characterized as a heartless approach to development. “They think: ‘We built this. We built that. […]
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Posted on May 28th, 2010 by Winston Smith
Death of the Postmodernist Dream by Victor Davis Hanson “The Greek meltdown — with Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain on the brink — has shown that European socialism does not work. Bankruptcy, not politics, is the final arbiter: Individuals, firms, and nations either buy particular bonds or they don’t. And a nation like Greece, in […]
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