Tag: John Kass

John Kass, Democratic Convention Ignores the Elephant in the Virtual Room: Urban Violence

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John Kass The “We the People”-themed Democratic National Convention, like the Republican one to follow, shows us what America has known for years: that conventions are only infomercials designed to bend reality to political will. The Democrats bend their reality toward a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, but they bend it away from any mention of growing violence in American big cities run by liberal Democratic administrations. As I keep telling you, when you hear politicians talking, pay attention to what isn’t said. Train your eye…

John Kass, Kavanaugh-Biden double standard and lack of curiosity over Flynn make Beltway media look bad

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JOHN KASS If there were ever a time that the American people needed credible national journalism, it is now, during this awful coronavirus pandemic. But for many reasons, whatever trust the people had in news from Washington has been broken over time. Now tens of millions of Americans are out of work, tens of thousands have died, the people are overwhelmed by conflicting and dueling scientific models of the virus, tribal politics shapes coverage. And Americans are so confused and afraid that many have been willing to accept suspension of…

John Kass, Thought Crimes, Media Abuse and those Catholic High School Boys from Covington

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JOHN KASS What exactly triggered that hateful leftist social media mob — shamefully egged on by prominent American journalists — to unjustly attack the students at Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School and denounce them as racists? The school has been closed. Death threats and bullying continue. Students and family complain they’ve been doxed — their identities revealed so that the hateful mob can harass them some more. So, what happened? Why were the students vilified? Was it simply for the sin of being white, Roman Catholic supporters of President Donald…

John Kass: Democrats use tear gas image as sentimental weapon to avoid clearheaded immigration debate

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By JOHN KASS | Tribune News Service If there is one thing worse than that photograph of a little Honduran boy breathing through an oxygen mask after being hit with tear gas on our southern border, it’s this: Using that image as a sentimental weapon to fend off or obliterate clearheaded immigration policy. But that’s where we are now, aren’t we? The caravan of thousands of Central American migrants is finally at the border. Mexico is keeping them back. The other day, after rocks were thrown at American border officials,…