Don’t shed a tear for the (literally) weeping, wailing executives of the now-defunded and soon-to-shut-down U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, writes Beth Brelje in The Federalist. The outfit that shoved the leftist view on every issue down the throats of credulous viewers, writes Brelje, was paying its executives exorbitant amounts – at times upwards of US$500,000 per year – enough to fund entire radio stations. Hmmm, where have we heard that before?
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
