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Any of dozens of news organizations could report the facts of the matter, but they’re not. You’d think that the media would be all over it, proving that Trump is wrong about criminal immigrants.

Someone needs to buy those folks a dictionary so they can look up “security” and “maximum”.

I have neither seen the movie American Sniper nor read the book. Others, apparently, have and are reporting that Chris Kyle was not, as the movie portrays him, a Killing Machine With A Heart of Gold, haunted by his sad duty to assassinate enemies from afar. He was, rather, a sniper who enjoyed the killing […]

So today, 3-14, is Pi day. The network news noted this and explained Pi: take any circle and divide the length around it by the length across it and the result is Pi, 3.14… Seriously, are “circumference” and “diameter” too hard for Americans to grasp? Sometimes I just despair.

What a different picture it would paint if the news media referred to Michael Brown as the “six-foot five-inch, 280 pound black man” that he was instead of as an “unarmed black teenager”.