Liberty
Who’s Behind the Curtain in Biden White House?
Mark Tapscott asks at PJMedia.com who actually runs the Biden White House. Back in the dark days of the Soviet Union (USSR), it was not unusual for foreign visitors, especially…
Potemkin village
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
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Searching for the Outrage About a ‘Broken America’
Peder Zane writes at RealClearPolitics about the damage done by Democratic policies. The Democrats have an ace in the hole in their relentless war on the Constitution – conservative America’s…
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Exposing the ‘Potemkin Government’ That Props Up Biden
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist places concerns about President Biden’s job performance in a larger context. Joe Biden’s shameful performance at the White House Easter egg roll Sunday was another…
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Biden as ‘Potemkin President’
Andrea Widburg of the American Thinker digs beneath the surface of the Biden presidency. When Catherine the Great of Russia traveled in the late 18th-century, her former lover, Grigory Potemkin,…
Education
Universities as Potemkin villages
Victor Davis Hanson makes the comparison between today’s campuses and the famously phony Russian facades for his latest National Review Online column. College campuses still appear superficially to be quiet,…
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Doing a Potemkin on urban decay
This reminds me of Durham in the mid-’80s when city fathers were trying desperately to hide the Beirut-looking vacant store fronts downtown. They commissioned “artists” to do things like put…
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Re: Don’t applaud GM bailout
According to this piece, GM has been creating a Potemkin Village with regard to Volt demand. This is the sort of thing that only happens in politicized industries that need…
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Is there any progress on the student-athlete front?
In today’s Pope Center piece UNC sophomore (and current Pope Center intern) Ashley Russell examines the furor over the limited academic progress that many student-athletes make, especially in the big…
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UNC system’s new enrollment policy just a “Potemkin Village”
So argues the Pope Centers Jay Schalin in this piece we have released today. UNC purports to aim at controlling growth in the numbers of students by holding schools accountable…
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David Price’s sham town hall
In case you didn’t attend U.S. Rep. David Price’s Potemkin town hall at N.C. Central, “sponsored” by SEANC/SEIU last week, Randy’s Right has a collection of video excerpts.
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Diane Sawyer goes to North Korea
Get ready for more Potemkin Village reporting from the MSM.