“Is Fake News a Fake Issue?” TODAY at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

Some argue that worries about “fake news” are just a pretext for imposing censorship or excluding consideration of non-leftist viewpoints. Is that all there is to the “war on fake news”? This and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

New York Today: Remembering Pearl Harbor

The war on ‘fake news’ is all about censoring real news HT @CouldntBRighter on Twitter

Radical Capitalist Episode 74: The Media, Globalism, and Ayn Rand & God

The Sniff Test: Developing a Critical Nose for News HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )

What is the source of this story and what do I know about it? HT Ben Bayer (the author 🙂 )

Did Google Just Commit ‘Fake News’? HT Stephanie Gutmann

How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He’s Insulting

Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism HT James Valliant

Lawmakers blast feds ‘unprecedented’ secrecy on refugee deal HT William Bush

Retired BB&T executive John Allison calls Trump meeting heady experience

House G.O.P. Signals Break With Trump Over Tariff Threat

Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner HT James Valliant

Victory for Teicholz in Battle of Butter HT @JeffreyYoung on Twitter

The United States Is Not an Apocalyptic Wasteland, Explains Steven Pinker HT Rob Abiera, Jeffrey Young

Amazon just launched a cashier-free convenience store HT Rob Abiera

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“Donald Trump’s Just Not That Into Your Rights,” TODAY at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

Telling the NYT they’ll probably “be fine” with respect to First Amendment protections, threatening to outlaw flag burning, among other things. It seems that Trump’s just not that into your rights. This and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

No, you couldn’t strip flag-burners of citizenship, even if flag-burning could be made a crime

Attack Watch as a Case Study of How Force Stops Thinking

Trump turns to conservative tacticians to run HHS and Medicare, Medicaid

The Trouble With Trump SCOTUS Contender William H. Pryor HT Mark Nitikman

Trump’s new Treasury, Commerce nominees say no ‘absolute’ tax cut for the wealthy, predict faster economic growth

OSU jihadi: “By Allah, I am willing to kill a billion infidels” HT Robert Spencer (via Twitter)

White House warns against blaming Islam for OSU jihad attack

Germany: “Pickup artist” training Muslim migrants how to win women

Protecting Your Internet Presence in the Age of Donald Trump HT Stephanie Gutmann

Obama Challenges Donald Trump By Expanding H1-B Outsourcing Program HT Rob Abiera

Democrats clinch a supermajority in both houses of the California Legislature after Josh Newman wins state Senate seat

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“Law of Conservation of Dictatorial Energy?” TODAY at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT)

Perhaps Castro had to finally die–good riddance–due to the ramping up of Trump’s administration? This and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

Conservation of energy

Remember Elian Gonzalez? He’s Back to Praise Fidel Castro

The Association for Objective Law’s Friend of the Court Brief Submitted in Elian Gonzalez’s Case

5 Terrible Responses to Fidel Castro’s Death From World Leaders

Cruz: The Truth about Fidel and Raul

Ghate: One Small Step For Dictatorship

Premature Evaluation?

Trump Claims, With No Evidence, That ‘Millions of People’ Voted Illegally

Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Trumpscript HT Quent Cordair

U.S. Boosts Refiners’ 2017 Biofuel Quotas to Record Levels HT Stephanie Gutmann

Trump Cabinet Picks So Far: Good, Bad and Ugly

‘After the beating’: Moroccan TV airs makeup tips for hiding domestic violence

“Fog Bow” by Melvin Nicholson HT Lee Wardlaw

Fun With Mozart

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