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  Charlie Kirk: Curiouser and Curiouser They NEVER tell the truth Donald Jeffries I don’t know how long this Charlie Kirk thing will last. It’s already been two weeks, which is a very long time in the short attention span of America 2.0. The event itself has been ignored by professional “journalists.” Maybe the Right will succeed in getting a school named after him. But the many anomalies will never be explained. As always, the official narrative of the incident doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.  Any  scrutiny at all. This is why there is so little focus on the actual shooting. These government produced narratives are so nonsensical that it couldn’t be due to mere random incompetence, or bad storytelling. Let’s start with the autopsy. Was there even an autopsy performed? Who knows? The few sources that mention it either say that there wasn’t one, or that it hasn’t been released. An autopsy is required for homicides in Utah (and I believe all states). So, there must have been o...

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk  Ron Unz Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons I don’t spend any time on social media nor do I have any interest in the mainstream conservative movement, so I’d only been very slightly aware of  Charlie Kirk  prior to his sudden assassination on Wednesday, shot dead at the age of 31 by a sniper while speaking at the  University of Utah  Utah Valley University. I’d vaguely known that Kirk was a young conservative activist who had dropped out of community college as a teenager about a dozen years earlier to found Turning Point USA, an activist organization intended to draw youthful Americans into his ideological camp, and heavily funded by mega-donors, it had grown large and successful over time. Those bare facts exhausted my total knowledge. Given that I’d paid so little attention to him, I was initially shocked by the enormous outpouring of media coverage his killing generated, seemingly greater than might have been accorded m...