The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism

Aug. 22, 2017
Good morning from Washington, just hours after the big solar eclipse and President Trump's big speech on our continuing military commitment in Afghanistan. We've got highlights on the latter from Fred Lucas and commentary from Luke Coffey. U.S. ally Ukraine denies a role in helping North Korea advance its missile technology. Nolan Peterson reports. What's with The New York Times' softness on communism? Jarrett Stepman begs to differ. Plus: Peter Parisi on Hollywood's aggressive defense of profanity and violence, and your responses to Charlottesville and what followed.
Commentary The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism Progressives have created a fanciful and distorted picture of socialism to make it seem like an intriguing alternative to American-style capitalism. Read More
News 6 Takeaways as Trump Recommits US to 'Defeat the Enemy' in Afghanistan President Trump announces an unspecified surge of troops in Afghanistan to "kill terrorists" and "defeat the enemy" during a prime-time address last night to soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia. Read More
Commentary President Lays Out a Winning Strategy for Afghanistan In what is by far his best and most statesmanlike speech since taking office, Trump outlines a new approach to the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Read More
News Ukraine Fires Back Against Claims That Its Rocket Engines Ended Up in North Korean Hands Michael Elleman, the author of the International Institute for Strategic Studies report cited in The New York Times story, later took to Twitter to walk back the quote attributed to him in the Times in which he said the engines more likely came from Ukraine than Russia. Read more
Commentary Hollywood Wants to Force This Profanity-Filtering Service Out of Business, and May Succeed Nearly half (45 percent) of Republicans surveyed, compared with just 1 in 4 (25 percent) Democrats, find the "F-bomb" objectionable, a poll found. Read More
News Kaepernick Makes Black History Smithsonian Before Clarence Thomas Free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a Black Lives Matter collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Read More
Commentary We Hear You: White Supremacists, Black Lives Matter, and Antifa in Charlottesville "Shutting down speech is fascism," Brad Gillespie says of those who met white supremacists with violence. "So who, really, is a fascist?" Read More
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