For its sins, Fox News has agreed to pay a staggeringsettlement of $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems,a company clearly defamed by the media company. Toptalent at Fox repeatedly told the lie — a lie within the BigLie that the 2020 election was stolen — that Dominion’svoting machines aided a conspiracy to take votes awayfrom…
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The legacy of George Wallace lives on.The Alabama governor was best known for skillfully pandering tothe racial animosity harbored by so many white voters — not onlyin the South but also, as his presidential campaigns showed,throughout the nation. Wallace was especially savvy aboutexploiting white fear of black crime, claiming he would restore“law and order.”After decades…
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February 24, 2023 In an interview shortly after President Jimmy Carter lost his bid for re-election, his wife,Rosalynn, was asked what she thought of the new president, Ronald Reagan. With aneerie prescience, she said, “I think the President makes us comfortable with ourprejudices.”In 1976, Carter’s election offered the possibility of a new America heading into…
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February 17, 2023 MOBILE, AL. — As I sit here, my computer screen facing the window, I see the stormclouds gathering. I am trying to determine whether my daughter will be able to walkhome from her school three blocks away or whether I will have to pick her up againbecause of a severe thunderstorm. As…
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February 10, 2023 With all the yelling, jeering and booing at the State of the Unionaddress — all the disruptive antics from ill-mannered andimmature members of Congress — viewers needed a sweetmoment that came in the latter half of the speech: the introductionof Maurice and Kandice Barron, parents of a four-year-old cancersurvivor. President Joe Biden…
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