Propaganda spread continues and other thoughts

Despite having been thoroughly discredited during the years of the Biden disaster (oops, presidency), the American left continues to spray its propaganda far and wide.

One example is the fake fact-checkers who never saw a conservative column they considered accurate or a leftwing fable that wasn’t spot on.

It has to be understood that the so-called major media has been the lapdogs of the socialists in our midst for the last 60 some years.

The opinion-news sites I have most confidence in are The Daily Signal, publication of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., on the national level and Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs on the state level.

I consider their columns accurate, well researched and often provide solutions to problems others don’t notice.

Yes, they’re both conservative and honest. This newspaper often reprints columns they produce because they are a welcome change from the stuff one finds on a majority of TV networks, social media and many northeastern newspapers, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Heck, even the Associated Press (AP) slants its reports – in my opinion– and it’s supposed to be an unbiased news source.

When I operated the news department of a state small town daily newspaper years ago, our source of state, national and international news came from United Press International.

Many small dailies used that wire service in those days because of its earned reputation for accuracy and fairness.

With the changing economics over the last few decades and the difficulty in smaller communities to support a newspaper, the UPI office has withdrawn its state office but continues operating successfully worldwide.

The many small dailies in Oklahoma that smaller cities could support at that time were sometimes spuriously referred to by their larger brethren as “weekly dailies.” Now many of them – those that survived – have become weekly publications because towns have lost many of the local businesses and their advertising which made those newspapers possible.

Thank You, Advertisers and Subscribers

A newspaper is successful in any community only because of the support provided by local businesses and subscribers.

So we thank them and urge our loyal readers to support them as much as possible.

Besides getting products as good or better as any you can find in the large chains or now the firms operating through the internet, you receive courteous and appreciative service from people you know. In former years, there were many weekly newspapers in smaller, rural towns across the state, many of them of high quality. The level of journalism in Oklahoma was outstanding at that time. I miss those papers; they served a unique role in their communities.

Some larger state former print dailies have gone to a totally digital publication (not paper) because of production and delivery cost increases.

The staff at the Times and Free Press – Oklahoma’s oldest continuously published newspaper – works hard to continue earning subscribers’ and advertisers’ support by producing two newspapers each week.

We’re dedicated to keep rural journalism alive locally. The nation is changing and we’re making efforts to continue serving this community.

Here’s one change that’s scary for America and for each of us.

Zohran Mamdani’s plans for New York City

I mentioned in an earlier column that a Socialist Democrat, Zohran Mamdani, had won the Democrat nomination for mayor of New York City.

That’s a long way from Kingfisher County, but his plans, including “seizing the means of production,” taxing white communities more and freezing rent on apartments comes directly from the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel playbooks.

Mamdani also talked about taking over the New York grocery stores, implying their 1% profit margins were outrageous, or maybe that his administration would provide free food. Hint: government stores mostly provide empty shelves, if past history tells you anything.

Victor Davis Hanson, historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and contributor to the Daily Signal, noted in a recent broadcast that Mamdani talked about taxing richer and whiter areas more to pay for the “free stuff” for others.

Although he tries to present himself as an African American (for political purposes, undoubtedly), he grew up rich, the son on of an American college professor father and a movie producer mother. If he becomes the Democrat Party’s savior, and should be elected to national office, say president, think of the wreckage he could create in the nation.

Townhall columnist Austin O’Connell, a policy associate at Americans for Tax Reform, headlined a piece he wrote on Mamdani this way: “How to destroy a city without bombs.”

The nation is deeply divided at present, and electing Mamdani or someone like him in the future is not out of the question.

The Democrat party failed in its quest to become the permanent government party in power. Democrats are floundering at present without power or an acknowledged leader.

Citizens expressed their opposition to the previous regimes’ “defund the police” and other left-wing silliness by electing Donald Trump as president last November.

With the nation divided at about 50-50 at present, it wouldn’t take much of a voting shift to elect an absolute Marxist as president.

Besides being anti-American, Mamdani is a spoiled young man, the son of a father who nonsensically lectured that Hitler’s plan for the Jews in Germany came from U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his “treatment” of Indians.

A “play” Black, (his parents are Indian and immigrants to Uganda – his claim to blackness), Mamdani’s potential threat to America cannot be ignored.