Patrick Maines

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  • Jul 18, 2022
    There have been some deeply important investigative and news reports this year and last, none of which have attracted the kind of follow up pieces in the mainstream media that they...
  • Jun 17, 2022
    To get a sense of how great, and dangerous, is our loss of confidence in the media and the crime-fighting agencies, consider this hypothetical scenario: Imagine that a resident of DC...
  • May 16, 2022
    The recent clip of Biden screaming about “people waiting an hour for a box of food in their trunk” provides evidence that he has entered that stage of dementia marked by...
  • Mar 22, 2022
    One of Donald Trump’s most controversial claims is that the media are the enemy of the people. It embarrasses and pains me, after a lengthy career as the head of a Washington...
  • Feb 21, 2022
    Given the many thumping absurdities that inflict the country today it’s not a great surprise that the media speculate ad nauseum about the Democratic presidential ticket in...