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    Confession: I Was Wrong About the Great Pandemic Panic

    Michael Shannon - November 28, 2020
    Institutional Racism

    Liz Cheney Bites Off Less Than She Can Chew

    Coronavirus Con

    Christians Stop Believing the Coronavirus Con

    Washington Redskins

    Redskins’ Owner Could End Up Having The Last Laugh

    Fauci Collects The Dead

    Dilbert, Dr. Fauci, And November

    Michael Shannon - July 13, 2020
    Vote by Mail

    The Ballot Box as Pandora’s Box

    Michael Shannon - July 12, 2020
    CURE FOR PANDEMIC

    We’ve Found the Cure for a Pandemic!

    Michael Shannon - June 22, 2020
    Major city libraries are abolishing fines for keeping books, videos, CDs, and other items past the due date.

    Why didn’t libraries check with Redbox first?

    Michael Shannon - January 1, 2020
    Hospitals want to maintain price opacity. If you ask a hospital what it costs to have your appendix removed, you get laughter, contempt, or dead silence.

    Hospitals play pin the price on the donkey

    Michael Shannon - December 14, 2019
    U.S. jobs should go only to citizens or lawful permanent residents, and not to foreign nationals who have no ties, family or otherwise, to America.

    Congress to tech workers: Eat cake

    Michael Shannon - October 30, 2019
    Hunter Biden's involvement with a Ukrainian energy company is the real scandal. It's nepotistic crony capitalism, and it reeks.

    Democrats hoisted on their own transcript

    Michael Shannon - October 2, 2019
    "The Hunt" — an R-rated satire in which elites hunt "deplorables" for sport — follows a series of mass shootings across the country. Hmm.

    Censoring “The Hunt”: A wake-up call for snooze-alarm conservatives

    Michael Shannon - August 23, 2019
    For the past year, Scott Nash, the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, has been eating food that is past its food expiration date.

    Food expiration dates are a conspiracy

    Michael Shannon - June 24, 2019
    Wondering just how bad could it really be living under a George Soros district attorney? If a conservative did this, it would be called "tyranny."

    George Soros continues to collect district attorneys

    Michael Shannon - June 19, 2019
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