The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Midsize City Population Growth Remaining Steady: Census Bureau Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Population growth in medium-sized cities largely remained steady even as the national population barely grew, Census Bureau officials said on May 14. An aerial view of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, August 4, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Midsize cities grew by an average of 0.7 percent from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, compared with 1 percent the year prior, according to the newly released analysis. In comparison, the average growth for the...

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell's Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell's prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are timeless.  Their warnings and messages still apply today and will probably apply centuries from now.  Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a tale specifically written as an allegory...

12 Signs That The Relentless Decline Of Our Society Is Accelerating Authored by Michael Snyder via End Of The American Dream, I have got some really crazy stuff to share with you in this article. For more than a decade and a half, I have been writing about the decline of our society. Sadly, over that period of time there has been an inexorable deterioration of our culture. We no longer agree on a generally accepted set of moral values, all of our major institutions are crumbling, and chaos reigns in...