This Age of Conversation
Christopher Chantrill – I see that our conservative friends are congratulating us all on the wonders of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. I get it. I love our national documents, too, with a passion.
But what’s the point? Our liberal friends will interpret any document six ways from Sunday to make it mean what they want it to mean. “Exegesis” is the word: “critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture.”
And if the educated constitutional exegesis of our liberal friends doesn’t deliver the answer they want, why, they’ll get Associate Justice Ketanji Jackson to write some nonsense that justifies the liberal Narrative anyway. (Word to the wise: she needs to demonstrate that she has a brain next time out.) Continue reading
Rajan Laad – We recently learned that ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit and $1 million as fees to Trump’s legal team.
Jonathan Turley – This week, there was a little-noticed order out of the Supreme Court that decided a narrow legal question with much great implications for journalism. The justices tossed a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that barred a lawsuit by Priscilla Villarreal. Known online as La Gordiloca (loosely translated as “the fat, crazy lady”), Villareal is part of a growing number of new media journalists.
Paul Rosenberg – Aside from a breathless stream of headlines and a few random inputs, I haven’t seen many facts regarding the events of January 6th. Circumstances made things that way for me, and now I’m glad they did, because it set me up for the really important issue: Am I allowed to ask questions about this, or am I not?