Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Sunday Night: Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
The 7th Annual Native American Festival is at Princess Place Preserve, 2500 Princess Place Road, Palm Coast, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, $10 per person, Kids 12 and under FREE! See the full lineup here.
The Academy Awards are tonight at Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre and on ABC TV. Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes are all hosting. 8 p.m.
Notably: Ralph Nader is 88 today. George W. Bush will not fail to send him very best wishes, as always.
U.S. Oil Price Rallies Amid Standoff With Russia, From Statista’s Daily Infographics: “Because Russia is a major oil and natural gas producer, sanctions against the country or willful disruption by Russia as the conflict continues are expected to lead to energy shortages, in turn driving up prices on the world market. U.S.-produced West Texas Intermediate crude oil cost more than $100 per barrel briefly on Thursday morning before settling back to around $95. While U.S. oil production has made strides by employing the controversial fracking method, a higher domestic output does not currently insulate the U.S. energy supply from major price fluctuations on the international markets. An oil price of around $100 per barrel is the highest the WTI has seen since late 2014. That year, prices reached a high of $107 in June before collapsing amid an oversupply caused in part by the new U.S. zeal for fracking, again showing that energy independence does not currently guarantee stable prices.”
Now this:
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May 2025
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
“In marching, in mobs, in football games, and in war, outlines become vague; real things become unreal and a fog creeps over the mind. Tension and excitement, weariness, movement–all merge in one great gray dream, so that when it is over, it is hard to remember how it was when you killed men or ordered them to be killed. Then other people who were not there tell you what it was like and you say vaguely, “Yes, I guess that’s how it was.” ”
–Steinbeck, “The Moon Is Down.” Steinbeck was born on this day in 1902.
Bill Boots says
“An oil price of around $100 per barrel is the highest the WTI has seen since late 2014. That year, prices reached a high of $107 in June”
2014, wasn’t that during the Obama presidency?
Sherry says
The most accurate and on point political cartoon I’ve seen regarding the deadly disease of cancerous anarchy and fascism being spread by FOX (NOT NEWS)! The 20+ years of constant, 24/7, flow of toxic micro-cells of hate filled lies, deceit, mis-information has tragically infected the brains and souls of millions in our country.
The widespread lethal symptoms of major degradation of cognitive function, radical paranoia, fear, hate, anger, xenophobia, homophobia, chauvinism and racism have manifested acts of murder, violence and bigotry against the uninfected, innocent children, people of color, immigrants, transgender/gay people and women.
The ripple effects of FOX cancer have caused once reasonable and logical citizens to form cults that are organized to destroy our democracy directly with a violent insurrection, and an attempted coup against our lawful government. . . and, indirectly through organized radicalized uprisings to subjugate vital processes such as public education, voting, justice and constitutional norms.
Our our entire democracy is gravely suffering and is at risk of succumbing to this dreaded FOX cancer! We must do all we can to find a cure!
Mark says
A President has nothing to do with the price of oil. Why does every time the price go up oil companies once again have record profits, that should be your question.
NotWoke says
And yet, more Democrats watch Fox than CNN, and Fox has higher ratings than CNN and MSNBC combined. Why is that???
Sherry says
According to this highly credentialed Pew Research Poll, 62% of Republicans watch FOX while only 28% of Democrats do:
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/03/23/large-majorities-of-newsmax-and-oan-news-consumers-also-go-to-fox-news/
Unfortunately, being susceptible to “Brainwashing” is not limited to Republicans though. Simply because a program is popular does not mean there is ANY credibility at all to the information presented:
Fox wants people to believe that it’s a “Fair and Balanced” source of news and information but the facts don’t back that up.
STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All
(Fairleigh Dickinson University)
Politifact is a fact-checking project of the Poynter University of Journalism. 59% of Fox statements checked are rated as False, Mostly False, or Pants on Fire. Only 10% of statements checked are rated as fully True.
In reality, Fox isn’t news at all. It’s a political propaganda machine trying to pass itself off as a credible network.
Australian billionaire media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, founded and funded Fox News in the 90s but Roger Ailes, now deceased, appointed himself CEO and molded it into a political and propaganda force. Ailes had no background or interest in real journalism or news gathering. His previous experience was as a political operative first for Richard Nixon, and later working on a covert plan to get Republican messages into the media under the guise of news. His approving hand written notes are all over a Nixon-era document which read in part:
“Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”
NotWoke says
According to data from Nielsen/MRI Fusion, Fox News is watched by more Democrats than CNN and by more Independents than both MSNBC and CNN. Data averages from April to August show that while Fox pulled in 62 percent of all conservatives watching cable, 29 percent of all liberals watched Fox – while 46 percent watched MSNBC and 25 percent watched CNN. MSNBC attracted 24 percent of the conservative audience, while CNN only pulled in 14 percent.
NotWoke says
Fox News pulverized MSNBC and CNN last week, topping viewership of the liberal networks combined for the 27th straight week.
Fox News averaged 1.5 million viewers from Feb. 14-20 while no other basic cable offering averaged more than one million viewers during that time. MSNBC finished second with 659,000 average viewers, followed by USA, HGTV and TNT. CNN settled for seventh place with an average of only 484,000 viewers.
Fox News also dominated the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m., averaging 2.5 million viewers compared to two million for runner-up TNT.
Sherry says
@notwoke. . . again:
Unfortunately, being susceptible to “Brainwashing” is not limited to Republicans though. Simply because a program is popular does not mean there is ANY credibility at all to the information presented:
Fox wants people to believe that it’s a “Fair and Balanced” source of news and information but the facts don’t back that up.
STUDY: Watching Only Fox News Makes You Less Informed Than Watching No News At All
(Fairleigh Dickinson University)
Politifact is a fact-checking project of the Poynter University of Journalism. 59% of Fox statements checked are rated as False, Mostly False, or Pants on Fire. Only 10% of statements checked are rated as fully True.
In reality, Fox isn’t news at all. It’s a political propaganda machine trying to pass itself off as a credible network.
Australian billionaire media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, founded and funded Fox News in the 90s but Roger Ailes, now deceased, appointed himself CEO and molded it into a political and propaganda force. Ailes had no background or interest in real journalism or news gathering. His previous experience was as a political operative first for Richard Nixon, and later working on a covert plan to get Republican messages into the media under the guise of news. His approving hand written notes are all over a Nixon-era document which read in part:
“Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”
NotWoke says
Politifact is a web site run by some left-wing journalists at the Tampa Bay Times. As you might expect from academic studies of media bias, their content might as well be written by the Democrat Party
It’s no wonder that the public has so little faith in the fact-checkers. A 2016 Rasmussen poll found that an astonishing 62% of American voters think the fact-check-ers are biased.
Both of the nation’s most prominent fact-checking organizations—FactCheck.org and PolitiFact—tilt to the political left, which makes them representative of the majority of journalists who also lean to port. Both of these groups go far beyond what they say they do, claiming to fact-check subjective things like political rhetoric that are not susceptible to fact-checking.