Something Big is Coming

Something Big is Coming By Clarice Feldman for American Thinker Dilbert creator Scott Adams tweeted this week: ”The country’s energy is strange. Everything is amped up in every direction. Something big is coming.” He’s rarely wrong about such things. Adams said he doesn’t know what that something big is, but I’m hoping it is a major shift in America’s political tectonic plates. I may be looking too hard for it, but I, too, feel it in my bones. Infrastructure Faceplant For one thing, the wacky spending program the Democrats were proposing and…

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The Ignoble Lie

The Ignoble Lie By Victor Davis Hanson for American Greatness “Noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves. In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic, Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”). A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them. Ever since, many prevaricators have used the excuse that they lied for the common good. Take Dr. Anthony Fauci, our point man on the COVID-19 epidemic. Fauci said he misled the country…

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