Yesterday an Anniston Star reporter  published a “Hot Blast” comparing Alabama to Russia. No, it wasn’t comparing Alabama’s recent bout with unbearably freezing weather with Russia’s Siberian Tundra. It wasn’t even pining for Alabama’s system of government to be more like the Russian state — although Alabama conservatives do sometimes jokingly refer to the Anniston paper as […]

Over the weekend, the bastion of leftwing news and commentary, Salon, published an an article titled “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media.” The article featured an excerpt from the 2014 book “Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA,” which decries corporate control of the news media and daydreams about the virtues of a “democratically […]