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‘The News You Won’t Believe’ (2020)

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Have I seen this guy’s picture on a milk carton? (Michael Bloomberg, in case you’ve forgotten. Lots of people have.)

[De thigh-bone not connected to de hip-bone anymore, it seems. But I’ll know more next week, probably more than I would ever want to know. Meanwhile, this:]

I was too busy running back and forth to doctors’ offices this week to generate my Newswithviews column. But I didn’t want to leave the space empty, so here’s one from 2020… still applicable today.

The News You Won’t Believe

I couldn’t decide which of these three items to write up, so I wrote about all three.

*Parents in Madison, Wisconsin, sue their school board over its “gender policy”–moving children into “transitioning” from boy to girl, girl to boy, while keeping it a dark secret from the children’s parents. This is going on all over the country by now. It must be stopped.

*Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is booed by an audience of Democrats for saying communism “doesn’t work.” We haven’t heard much of him after that. It was part of his howlingly unsuccessful run for the Dems’ presidential nomination.

*New York floats a plan to release thousands of accused felons from prison–and give them the names of persons likely to be witnesses against them when they come to trial. I don’t know what came of it. The absence of a festival of murder suggests they changed their minds.

If America survives as a free country and a constitutional republic, it won’t be any thanks to Democrats.

This Day So Far

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I’m supposed to write a Newswithviews piece today [cue hysterical laughter]. I have no idea how that’s going to get done.

Last month, see, we made a slight error in filling out our tax forms, which has led to us being embroiled with the IRS. My wife corrected the error, but we need to have that acknowledged.

On Friday we were supposed to get a letter from the IRS. So said the official email from the Postal Service. But of course we didn’t get it, we don’t know what the IRS wants, you can’t get through to them by phone, the post office disclaims all knowledge of anything except for how to run a national election, they’re cool with that, and the sage advice I got from the clerk was, “Wait till it comes.” What is this–Bleak House?

Yeah, wait. Wait till the marshals show up with handcuffs.

See, here we have two government agencies involved, the IRS and the Postal Service–doubling the chances for the whole thing to go wrong. We are in the Age of Nothing Works.

Maybe if I sit outside and smoke a cigar, I can think of something to write about.

My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 18 (‘Hungary, 1956: Freedom or Death’)

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Spitting on Stalin: Hungary, 1956

All over the world, people have risked death, exposed themselves to danger and to hardship–to be free. Most of them wanted to be free from so-called “socialist” governments. No one talks about the Iron Curtain anymore, but in 1956 it was a real thing. And the people of Hungary put their lives on the line to get rid of it. But the Soviet Union intervened to crush them.

Hungary, 1956: Freedom or Death

A few years later it was refugees from Cuba, risking their lives to escape from communism and come to America. Because freedom is that much better than socialism! And worth risking everything, to get it.

What would those people make of us today, passionately flirting with socialism, shrugging our shoulders as the whole Democrat Party cruises down the Far Left speedway, on fire to “fundamentally transform” our country into a Third World hell-hole?

And once they do it to us, there’ll no noplace left to go.

Uncle Shinbone’s Counting Your Views

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G’day! Byron the Quokka here, and that’s Uncle Shinbone munching on a well-earned leaf. We put him in charge of counting the views yesterday, and he did it–325 views. Not bad! Sort of a late-2018/early-2019 number. Much better than what we’ve had here lately. And some of you strongly suspect there’s something wrong with WordPress’ view-counting. Well, they’d never admit it, would they?

Anyhow, Uncle Shinbone is back on the job today, trying to get three days in a row with 300 or more views. He thinks there’ll be more views if he counts them than if I do.

Editor’s Note: I’ve called in sick to Newswithviews this week–no column. I’m tired, I’ve got problems on this blog, I’ve got a book I want to finish writing before the cold weather sets in–and oh, yeah, a trip to the bank today! This is supposed to be the very last thing we have to do to finish off Aunt Joan’s now-penniless estate. Get a copy of the final check and it’s free, free, free at last! (If you ever want to really stick it to somebody, make him or her the executor of your estate. This is especially fun when there’s no money left in it.)

Byron’s Note: I hope nobody thinks it was me, bailing out on Newswithviews. Quokkas never bail out. No, that was Lee. The prospect of finally being done with his aunt’s estate has made him a bit delirious.

Has Anybody Seen My Newswithviews Column?

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Thursday is supposed to be my big day, when my weekly column appears in Newswithviews.com . Only this Thursday it hasn’t, resulting in a sharp reduction in traffic to this blog.

In recent weeks NWV has come under cyber-attack: you try to go there, and you get a “Potential Attack Page” warning. NWV says it’s because they’ve supported Donald Trump for president. But I don’t think you have to do that, to provoke the leftids to try and shut you down. I’ve written for conservative sites that have been hacked. Some were damaged. One was put out of business–after first trying to appease the leftids by avoiding discussion of certain topics. They should’ve known better.

As we can easily see by what’s been happening on collidge campuses, the Left in America would love to silence everybody but themselves.

I don’t know where my NWV column is today. Writing it was hard work. I hope to see it in print one of these days.