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Wordless By Hank Silverberg What am I going to write about this week ? I usually ask myself that question on Wednesday or Thursday. This week I came up empty. I could spend a few paragraphs talking about the Education Secretary Betsy Devos and her idiotic attempt to cut funding for the Special Olympics in the 2020 budget. But that was too much even for the cold-hearted man in the White House, who bowed to political pressure and public outrage, and over-ruled her. The fact missed by a lot of people is that the Trump administration had tried to sneak the same cuts through last year, and was stopped by its own party.  I could also write this week about the whole Jussie Smollett case and how the media dropped the ball on that story.   Most journalists were not skeptical enough about it from the start by at least using the words “alleged” in their reporting. The end result is the media looked pretty bad when the crime turned out to be a hoax, and then the pro...

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