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Why Trump Failed To Receive Endorsement From A Singe Major Newspaper...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The following article from a left coast publication, the Los Angeles Times ,  it is well thought-out, well articulated, perfectly reasonable, and exactly correct. It is reprinted here with full attribution for your consideration. Trump’s careless ignorance could make him the world’s most dangerous man David Horsey There is a good reason that Donald Trump failed to win the endorsement of a single serious newspaper (the Ku Klux Klan “Crusader” does not count). It is not because the press is uniformly liberal; there were plenty of traditionally Republican and conservative editorial boards that could not bring themselves to support Trump. It is because people who work on newspapers deal in facts, and the fact is that the president-elect is woefully unprepared for the office he has won. That is the core reason I have been so critical of Trump and will continue to be. This is not a knee-jerk aversion to any and all Republ...

Ebola Hysteria Hits Syracuse University...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth SYRACUSE, NY (October 16, 2014) – Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille of The Washington Post, who returned from covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia 21 days ago and who is symptom free, was asked by Syracuse University officials today not to come to campus where he was scheduled to participate in a journalism program. "I just got off the phone with the Dean [Lorraine Branham], and I am pissed off," du Cille told News Photographer magazine this afternoon. "I am disappointed in the level of journalism at Syracuse, and I am angry that they missed a great teaching opportunity. Instead they have decided to jump in with the mass hysteria." Full article BELOW THE FOLD . Yep, America approaching full hysteria mode. Ebola, which is not a airborne virus is transmitted in humans through close body contact, see below. Transmission It is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodida...