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Cable News Declares Clancy Mistrial Both a Stunning Victory and a Crushing Defeat for Absolute Certainty

ATLANTA

Empty news desk in front of a split screen reading VICTORY and DEFEAT.

Within minutes of a Massachusetts judge declaring a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, cable news declared the outcome a stunning victory for everyone who had already decided what it meant, and a crushing defeat for everyone else who had also already decided what it meant.

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Satirists Confirm Judging A Religion By Its Worst Members Is Fine, Provided It's Someone Else's Religion

NASHVILLE

Manuscript with a red pen and one tiny footnote circled at the bottom.

Editors at a leading Christian satire website confirmed Tuesday that it is entirely fair to judge a religion by the actions of its worst members, provided the religion…