The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 18, 2023 published my op ed on Elon Musk and the Starlink-Crimea kerfuffle. You can read it here. –dk Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation of Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. She wants to know why he refused the Ukrainian military’s demand that he turn on […]
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It was a grand experiment, and it enabled me to write some of the best stuff of my long career: 30 columns and 27,000 words criticizing the mainstream media for their blatant bias, dissecting their intentional lack of coverage of inconvenient truths, and examining their hidden motives and underhanded trickery. We called my column The
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April 19, 2023 5:52 pm ET Elon Musk is building Twitter into something better, bigger, safer and, above all, freer. Yet media headlines claim the company is “dying.” The doom is overwrought. The eccentric billionaire is creating one of the most powerful media platforms the world has ever seen. This was underscored last week when he
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The original version of this column ran in the Washington Examiner on April 10, 2023. Here: http://bit.ly/3Mu82jy. The sad murders of three young children and three staff members at a private Christian school in Nashville have been followed by bitter protests at state capitols, White House commentary, and a swarm of media kowtowing. But this wasn’t aimed
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A version of this article ran on TruthDAO.news on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Twitter Files Part 14 came out on Thursday, and it may offer one reason why the media have ignored this exposé for six weeks now: their own embarrassment about #Russiagate and how they covered a kerfuffle called #ReleaseTheMemo in early 2018. Thanks
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This is a longer version of my op ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 17, 2022. Now comes the awkward part. Elon Musk says he is going through with his unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter, despite fighting in court to scuttle it. Twitter executives first rejected his bid, then accepted it—and then
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From DK: The Wall Street Journal on July 23rd, 2021 published my op ed on my father’s sudden death and its aftermath. Below is a longer, more detailed version. My 64th birthday came on July 24th. The same date marked the 50th anniversary of a personal tragedy. At 5:32 a.m. on the morning of my
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A higher-stakes battle lurks beneath the GameStop kerfuffle and the “Rocky”-like victory of the little guy outsmarting savvy hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street. This could be the start of a war on short sellers. It’s about time. Capitalism is optimism monetized—we invest because we believe great things can happen. Short sellers are the destroyers
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A version of this article ran on newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/34p94qs With less than two weeks to go until the most important presidential election of our lifetime, it feels less like Trump vs. Biden and more like a vote on President Trump: for his policies, or against his character. This occurred to me the other day
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This article is adapted from my column on Newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/30oee3A Last Sunday night, gleefully, I started watching the TLC reality show “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” and the culminating season finale known as the “Tell All.” The real-life romantic partners and exes on the show gathered (online in this cooped-up, locked-down era) to
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