George Orwell is now a year older and the winner in 2016 was Mike – will you be the 2018 Winner?   Give a big Howdy to Mike W. of Lake Jackson, Texas for being our George Orwell Paperwhite Winner …

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The Yellow Press. Likely the very best example of the peril facing the modern reader by a cartoonist. Puck, New York.

History of the USA Media and Politics in one Tweet Storm The saga of how liberals came to control the news and folks learned to ignore them START AT BOTTOM AND SCROLL UP News Hound‏ @PrivateerClause #MAGA Trump is brilliant, …

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Animal Farm is a 1955 British animated film by Halas and Batchelor, based on the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was the first British animated feature to be released. The C.I.A. paid for the filming, part of the …

George Orwell’s Animal Farm inspired this British film – All Animals are Equal! Read more »

Sunset over the Carnival Miracle. THE PRIVATEER CLAUSE photo

  Cruise to Cuba: Lawsuit Filed Against Carnival and Fathom Travel From Cruise Law News: Yesterday. a lawsuit was filed against Carnival Corporation and Fathom Travel for discriminating against Cuban-Americans who were excluded as passengers on the May 1st cruise …

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Carnival Miracle Nick & Nora supper club was one of the best specialty restaurants tried on any cruise ship. THE PRIVATEER CLAUSE photo

Ordinarily taking a cruise to Cuba would not rate high in my house. Being trapped on a ship packed with “wild and crazy” middle-agers eager to “partay” on a conga line would be my wife’s idea of Hades. As for …

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