How Harvard Divinity teaches hate. Rand Paul on why he hasn’t endorsed Trump. Easter Island and the myth of civilizational collapse. Why are overdose deaths falling? And much more.
Thanks for Rand Paul interview. He is one of the senators that I respect. He immediately called out Rachel Levine for being evasive during a senate hearing.
I too am disappointed in the appearance of left leaning articles by TFF. Crime rates are not falling. That has been well refuted. I am most disappointed that you chose to include the entire content of Ruth's letter. The rhetoric, falsehoods and lies by the media is leading to the worst kind of crime against one candidate. Who are we if we don't respect everyone 's right to life and to have their own opinion. Publishing the bounty is another clear instance that you don't care about his right to life. Shame on you all.
Violent crime is falling. They don’t say crime is falling. The details matter. We’re not afraid of getting raped or murdered living in big cities. It’s the shoplifting, mugging, breaking into my car/house, drug dealing in public, and people high on opiates stumbling around the city.
More than a little disappointing that the author doesn’t have curiosity to examine the statement that crime is falling. Read the footnotes dude. Many cities have stopped reporting to the database!!! This is basic math. Cmon Man!
The first week my son started at UofA in Tucson his locked up bike was stolen right outside his dorm to shrugs from campus police and a parents page noting this is a terrible problem. Then, this weekend, while my son was home for homecoming in CO there was a homicide committed in the volleyball courts right outside his dorm involving two people who were not even students! All within a matter of a month. Homeless people are wandering around everywhere in my suburb north of Denver putting up tents behind buildings in busy retail areas. Nobody cares! Crime and vagrancy is everywhere. Screw the fake statistics. Like the FBI is a reliable source of anything anymore. Our cities, suburbs, and communities are in decline. Something has got to give.
Violent crime is not down. At all. It’s up. For over a year we’ve been dealing with faulty stats put out that don’t include many major metro area because the of fight between police and FBI over what to report. If you think you won’t get shot in Chicago, you’re on the shallow end of the gene pool…. At this point it’s clear they are deliberately running with faulty data to please DC purse strings.
Harvard and other universities will reject antisemitism and anti-Israel prejudice only with major changes in their administrations and professors who lead the spread of misinformation and hatred.
According to the Wall Street Journal, violent crime in urban areas is way up. It's just that large Democrat-run cities are no longer reporting the violent crime rates to the FBI.
I'm truly perplexed why Jewish voters are usually Democrats. I think it might be because they are, on the whole, a highly educated population, but I think they should look around at their party bedfellows, throw on a robe and come over to the sane party.
Jews have a traditional connection to the democrat party because republicans hated them, prevented them from living in their neighborhoods, working in certain professions, and joining their country clubs. I grew up during those times. I know.
Today, beginning during the ‘60’s, democrats have become blatant supporters of ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. Democrats are now the wealthy class and hate Jews. I saw the message inn ‘69 and it was reinforced with the ‘72 Olympics. Manny other Jews are still imitating Charlie Brown while Lucy promises she will let him kick it. The only kicks are those to the ass of the Jews wanting membership in a club that hates them.
Dr. Satel is the smartest person on drug policy in the United States right now, but as a veteran of over 40 years as a trial prosecutor, elected DA, and onetime defense lawyer, I would urge great caution. As in so many things, it is how you count. When I saw my home state, Oregon showing one of the greatest declines in deaths I became skeptical. Oregon functionally legalized all drugs in 2020 and although a pallid recriminalization was recently passed by the legislature, the number of fatal overdoses is still staggering. And the MSM still loves to blame bad doctors and cosmically avaricious Pharma when in fact the deaths that came from semi-synthetic opioids (oxycodone) flattened out around 2010 while synthetic opioids (i.e. fentanyl) have skyrocketed.
True, there is widespread availability of Narcan, even if it sometimes takes multiple doses to prevent death, but the addicts are often back on the drug within hours. The one demographic that shows real hope is younger people. For decades the worst likely outcome of using a caged pill that might be Percodan was in reality bootleg PCP or meth, maybe mixed with heroin. But with fentanyl the safety zone is so small that many young adults may be getting that one mistake really DOES equal death this time, not like ALL the other times sanctimonious public service ads warned them in the past.
After the government department of misinformation fed us lie after lie during the COVID epidemic; after apparatchiks like Garland assumed control of Justice; and after inquiries were stonewalled or slow-walked; I have trouble accepting crime statistics, and believe there has been serious manipulation to produce a desired outcome.
There is Zero GOP Grassroots Get-out-the-Vote. I receive texts/emails from both GOP & Dems. GOP only asks for $$$. Extremely annoying. Whereas Dem text/emails/calls are "What is your plan for voting? Are you registered? Can I help you register? Can I help you finding your polling place? Can I drive you to the polls to vote? Can I baby-sit your kids so you can vote?" Also Dem text: "We are training volunteers to make calls to swing voters--join us". GOP: Give us money. How is money going to help you if people can't get to the polls or arent' registered to vote??? How is it helping you to annoy people?
My belief? GOP is really a shadow party meant to make it look like we have a two party system while the DEMs take control of everything. They act so stupidly I have to believe it's on purpose.
Hard to believe TFP is falling for the ole' "crime is actually falling" gaslighting going on with the mainstream media. A quick look into this statistic by a real journalist would demonstrate that crime is falling simply because fewer DA's are pursuing prosecutions so law enforcement stops arresting people.
I have been a free press subscriber since the beginning of Common Sense, and proudly list the Free Press as my main source of information. I do not use main stream media at all, after 2020. I am a 72+ year old female who has never declared a political party in my 54 years of voting. I would have considered myself center left but have voted for Republicans also. I now consider myself center period. In the 2016 campaign I voted for Jill Stiles, and in 2020 I wrote in my vote for Tulsi Gabbord. Please tell me that I am wrong, but I feel that The Free Press is leaning left. I want to be proven wrong. I want to get all my news profiled so I can make an informed decision. For example there was an article about why Rand Paul may not be voting for Donald Trump. Great.! And the was a podcast about Dick Cheney not endorsing Trump. GREAT! Why wasn’t there a podcast about why Tulsi Gabbord and RFK are endorsing Trump! Or how about an article about how come Alan Dershowitz and Joe Manchin are not endorsing Harris. For years, I used to listen to NPR, until about 2020 when I found out that NPR only appeared to be unbiased. Please Bari, please help this undeclared fan or yours equal representation on all sides. Perhaps this was the wrong venue to write this comment, but I didn’t know where else to get my feelings out.
That is a very good point, which I left undiscussed in my own comment. I don’t have the statistics, but it seems to me that the representation of undecided voters among the TFP readership is higher than average. For various reasons, people have come to this point with their own understanding of the political landscape, ready to change and search for the objective information that TFP claims to provide. However, the volume of material builds a clear picture of Bari’s and her team's liberal (nowadays meaning leftist or Democratic) bias.
The timing of the interview with Rand Paul is highly suspect. It appears to be an effort to present various points of view, but in reality, it leads some undecided readers to decide against Trump. The substance and intricacy of the arguments don’t matter - what matters is planting doubt. It may not be an outright desire to make more people vote Democratic, but unquestionably to make them vote against Trump. I can’t say with certainty whether they timed this interview out of naivety, merely striving to add another point of view, or if it was hidden but intentional propaganda. Either way, it doesn’t look good for a publication that claims to strive for the highest standards in journalism.
I'm sure Kamala will successfully fix the deficit Rand Paul is so concerned about. He can stick to his beliefs all he wants, but both his constituents and he himself should realize that at this point in time, it’s a binary situation - either you're in, as a member of your party, or you're not. Expressing his educated views is nothing but subversion, which could cost more than he bargains for.
Thanks for Rand Paul interview. He is one of the senators that I respect. He immediately called out Rachel Levine for being evasive during a senate hearing.
I too am disappointed in the appearance of left leaning articles by TFF. Crime rates are not falling. That has been well refuted. I am most disappointed that you chose to include the entire content of Ruth's letter. The rhetoric, falsehoods and lies by the media is leading to the worst kind of crime against one candidate. Who are we if we don't respect everyone 's right to life and to have their own opinion. Publishing the bounty is another clear instance that you don't care about his right to life. Shame on you all.
Violent crime is falling. They don’t say crime is falling. The details matter. We’re not afraid of getting raped or murdered living in big cities. It’s the shoplifting, mugging, breaking into my car/house, drug dealing in public, and people high on opiates stumbling around the city.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/contrary-to-media-myth-u-s-urban-crime-rates-are-up-violence-cities-9ce714f6
More than a little disappointing that the author doesn’t have curiosity to examine the statement that crime is falling. Read the footnotes dude. Many cities have stopped reporting to the database!!! This is basic math. Cmon Man!
When you don't prosecute, crime stats drop. TFP should know that.
The first week my son started at UofA in Tucson his locked up bike was stolen right outside his dorm to shrugs from campus police and a parents page noting this is a terrible problem. Then, this weekend, while my son was home for homecoming in CO there was a homicide committed in the volleyball courts right outside his dorm involving two people who were not even students! All within a matter of a month. Homeless people are wandering around everywhere in my suburb north of Denver putting up tents behind buildings in busy retail areas. Nobody cares! Crime and vagrancy is everywhere. Screw the fake statistics. Like the FBI is a reliable source of anything anymore. Our cities, suburbs, and communities are in decline. Something has got to give.
Violent crime is not down. At all. It’s up. For over a year we’ve been dealing with faulty stats put out that don’t include many major metro area because the of fight between police and FBI over what to report. If you think you won’t get shot in Chicago, you’re on the shallow end of the gene pool…. At this point it’s clear they are deliberately running with faulty data to please DC purse strings.
Harvard and other universities will reject antisemitism and anti-Israel prejudice only with major changes in their administrations and professors who lead the spread of misinformation and hatred.
According to the Wall Street Journal, violent crime in urban areas is way up. It's just that large Democrat-run cities are no longer reporting the violent crime rates to the FBI.
Geez. We never seem to hear about Kennedy now that he has decided to support Trump. Dropped from FP coverage as well as MSM.
I'm truly perplexed why Jewish voters are usually Democrats. I think it might be because they are, on the whole, a highly educated population, but I think they should look around at their party bedfellows, throw on a robe and come over to the sane party.
Jews have a traditional connection to the democrat party because republicans hated them, prevented them from living in their neighborhoods, working in certain professions, and joining their country clubs. I grew up during those times. I know.
Today, beginning during the ‘60’s, democrats have become blatant supporters of ‘Palestinian freedom fighters’. Democrats are now the wealthy class and hate Jews. I saw the message inn ‘69 and it was reinforced with the ‘72 Olympics. Manny other Jews are still imitating Charlie Brown while Lucy promises she will let him kick it. The only kicks are those to the ass of the Jews wanting membership in a club that hates them.
Republicans hated them? I didn't know that. I wonder if it was envy rather than hate.
I love it!
Dr. Satel is the smartest person on drug policy in the United States right now, but as a veteran of over 40 years as a trial prosecutor, elected DA, and onetime defense lawyer, I would urge great caution. As in so many things, it is how you count. When I saw my home state, Oregon showing one of the greatest declines in deaths I became skeptical. Oregon functionally legalized all drugs in 2020 and although a pallid recriminalization was recently passed by the legislature, the number of fatal overdoses is still staggering. And the MSM still loves to blame bad doctors and cosmically avaricious Pharma when in fact the deaths that came from semi-synthetic opioids (oxycodone) flattened out around 2010 while synthetic opioids (i.e. fentanyl) have skyrocketed.
True, there is widespread availability of Narcan, even if it sometimes takes multiple doses to prevent death, but the addicts are often back on the drug within hours. The one demographic that shows real hope is younger people. For decades the worst likely outcome of using a caged pill that might be Percodan was in reality bootleg PCP or meth, maybe mixed with heroin. But with fentanyl the safety zone is so small that many young adults may be getting that one mistake really DOES equal death this time, not like ALL the other times sanctimonious public service ads warned them in the past.
After the government department of misinformation fed us lie after lie during the COVID epidemic; after apparatchiks like Garland assumed control of Justice; and after inquiries were stonewalled or slow-walked; I have trouble accepting crime statistics, and believe there has been serious manipulation to produce a desired outcome.
There is Zero GOP Grassroots Get-out-the-Vote. I receive texts/emails from both GOP & Dems. GOP only asks for $$$. Extremely annoying. Whereas Dem text/emails/calls are "What is your plan for voting? Are you registered? Can I help you register? Can I help you finding your polling place? Can I drive you to the polls to vote? Can I baby-sit your kids so you can vote?" Also Dem text: "We are training volunteers to make calls to swing voters--join us". GOP: Give us money. How is money going to help you if people can't get to the polls or arent' registered to vote??? How is it helping you to annoy people?
My belief? GOP is really a shadow party meant to make it look like we have a two party system while the DEMs take control of everything. They act so stupidly I have to believe it's on purpose.
Yes 👍 they are *extremely* willing to help you out with anything whatsoever- if it has to do with this *very* specific thing.
Hard to believe TFP is falling for the ole' "crime is actually falling" gaslighting going on with the mainstream media. A quick look into this statistic by a real journalist would demonstrate that crime is falling simply because fewer DA's are pursuing prosecutions so law enforcement stops arresting people.
I have been a free press subscriber since the beginning of Common Sense, and proudly list the Free Press as my main source of information. I do not use main stream media at all, after 2020. I am a 72+ year old female who has never declared a political party in my 54 years of voting. I would have considered myself center left but have voted for Republicans also. I now consider myself center period. In the 2016 campaign I voted for Jill Stiles, and in 2020 I wrote in my vote for Tulsi Gabbord. Please tell me that I am wrong, but I feel that The Free Press is leaning left. I want to be proven wrong. I want to get all my news profiled so I can make an informed decision. For example there was an article about why Rand Paul may not be voting for Donald Trump. Great.! And the was a podcast about Dick Cheney not endorsing Trump. GREAT! Why wasn’t there a podcast about why Tulsi Gabbord and RFK are endorsing Trump! Or how about an article about how come Alan Dershowitz and Joe Manchin are not endorsing Harris. For years, I used to listen to NPR, until about 2020 when I found out that NPR only appeared to be unbiased. Please Bari, please help this undeclared fan or yours equal representation on all sides. Perhaps this was the wrong venue to write this comment, but I didn’t know where else to get my feelings out.
That is a very good point, which I left undiscussed in my own comment. I don’t have the statistics, but it seems to me that the representation of undecided voters among the TFP readership is higher than average. For various reasons, people have come to this point with their own understanding of the political landscape, ready to change and search for the objective information that TFP claims to provide. However, the volume of material builds a clear picture of Bari’s and her team's liberal (nowadays meaning leftist or Democratic) bias.
The timing of the interview with Rand Paul is highly suspect. It appears to be an effort to present various points of view, but in reality, it leads some undecided readers to decide against Trump. The substance and intricacy of the arguments don’t matter - what matters is planting doubt. It may not be an outright desire to make more people vote Democratic, but unquestionably to make them vote against Trump. I can’t say with certainty whether they timed this interview out of naivety, merely striving to add another point of view, or if it was hidden but intentional propaganda. Either way, it doesn’t look good for a publication that claims to strive for the highest standards in journalism.
I'm sure Kamala will successfully fix the deficit Rand Paul is so concerned about. He can stick to his beliefs all he wants, but both his constituents and he himself should realize that at this point in time, it’s a binary situation - either you're in, as a member of your party, or you're not. Expressing his educated views is nothing but subversion, which could cost more than he bargains for.