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PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — More Than Lies

Doublethink and doublespeak are a means of indoctrination in which people are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth. Orwell created the words in the most famous dystopian novel, “1984,” but we saw them on full display Tuesday night. The most egregious example was the horrific use of a child with cancer as a prop while at the …


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PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — God Help Us

I don’t want to get out of bed this morning. I wanna pull the covers over my head and pretend like this dystopian nightmare does not exist. I don’t want to hear the latest news that tears down yet another brick as democracy collapses around me. But that isn’t an option. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of …