District of Columbia, New York | October 3, 2021
Trump Calls for ’18 Pulitzer Prizes to Be Stripped for Being Fake News
District of Columbia, New York | October 3, 2021
Writing an open letter to the Pulitzer Prizes, former President Donald Trump called out the “shoddy, dubious, and manifestly false reporting” by The New York Times and The Washington Post that won the award in 2018.
Trump published the open letter in a statement from his Save America PAC on Sunday.
“I call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to immediately rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting awarded to the staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post, which was based on false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign,” the statement began. “As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation.”.. (Excerpts from Newsmax)
New York | September 20, 2021
‘Banned Books Week’ Isn’t Actually Interested in Banned Books . . .
New York | September 20, 2021
By Thomas Spence, president of Regnery Publishing.
The annual ritual known as Banned Books Week rarely involves books that have been banned in any meaningful sense. If the ‘Banned Books Week’ were actually about banned books, conservative writers like Abigail Shrier and Ryan T. Anderson would be on the list. Begun in 1982 and endorsed by such mainstream organizations as the American Library Association and PEN America, this gimmicky promotion caters primarily to those who believe that schoolchildren should have access to anything bound between two covers without the interference of those busybodies we call parents. But this year, for the first time in the 40-year history of Banned Books Week, writers and publishers face the threat of real book-banning. Strangely enough, the sponsors of Banned Books Week have nothing to say about it. The theme this year is “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” The Banned Books Week 2021 features a list of titles, almost entirely limited to progressive works. But what about the second part of that theme? When will Banned Books Week pay attention to banned books?.. (Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)
New York | May 13, 2021
Falun Gong Adherents Celebrate Faith Around the Globe, Stand Up to Communist China’s Persecution
New York | May 13, 2021
NEW YORK—Before the pandemic, waves of people donning yellow and blue would congregate in New York and elsewhere this time of year to take part in a celebration.
In public parks and on the streets, they showcased slow-moving, meditative exercises, while wearing shirts emblazoned with the words “truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance”—the three core tenets of their faith, Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa).
May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day, marking the date when the spiritual practice was first made public in China in 1992.
The gatherings on this day were not only meant for commemoration, adherents say, but also to send a defiant message to the Chinese communist regime, which has been single-minded in seeking to eradicate the group for more than two decades.
One of the largest spiritual communities in China, Falun Gong garnered a following of around 70 to 100 million by 1999. But this popularity was deemed unacceptable to the atheist Chinese regime, which then launched a brutal persecution that has continued through today…
(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)