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    Tyrants

    History Tells Us To Take Tyrants Like Putin Seriously

    Rich Manieri - March 20, 2022
    Covid Vaccine

    Threats and Insults Won’t Get People Vaccinated

    The Media is Missing the Story on Violent Crime

    Woke Journalism

    What’s News? It Depends On Who You Ask

    Biden Unity

    Searching for Unity in a Sea of Exclamation Points

    Rich Manieri - January 27, 2021
    STL Covidnals

    Sports Have Been Hard To Watch During the Pandemic

    Rich Manieri - August 22, 2020
    Outrage Over Anti-Semitism

    The Alarming Absence Of Outrage Over Anti-Semitism

    Rich Manieri - July 21, 2020
    Pandemic Quid Pro Quo

    There’s Room For Compromise If We Look For It

    Rich Manieri - May 3, 2020
    Flipping tractor tires, pulling sleds, jumping on boxes, throwing a medicine ball against a wall until you black out – now that’s exercise.

    A state of laziness? I don’t think so.

    Rich Manieri - February 8, 2020
    When the Bee responded to CNN with “CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: ‘The internet is only big enough for one fake news site’,” liberals lost their sense of humor.

    Liberals, where is your sense of humor?

    Rich Manieri - January 20, 2020
    Twitter is currently abuzz with criticisms and parody videos of a holiday Peloton commercial made by angry people with incredible amounts of downtime.

    ‘Tis the season for phony outrage and made-up controversies

    Rich Manieri - December 11, 2019
    Joe Biden will win the Democratic Nomination because Democrats believe he’s the only one who can beat President Donald Trump.

    Joe Biden will win Democratic Nomination, if only by default

    Rich Manieri - November 30, 2019
    These impeachment hearings are so polluted by partisanship that I have very little confidence we are ever going to get to the truth.

    Impeachment hearings are a lose-lose proposition

    Guest Contributor - November 23, 2019
    I could write about impeachment again this week, and probably for countless weeks to come. But I think we all could use a diversion.

    In news other than impeachment…

    Rich Manieri - October 18, 2019
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