"This Is Completely Factual"

That's the subject line for the email I just got advertising the latest get-rich-quick con being pimped by HumanEvents.com.

I love the tacit admission that most other things they send out must not be, you know, completely factual.

A reminder of why I call attention to this stuff. These unsolicited ads to Human Events' mailing list are not sent with disclaimers; they are sent, instead, with the explanation, "From time to time we find special opportunities we believe you as a valued customer may want to see."

This one is signed by a "Human Events Reader" - so trust him. Trust him when he says: "if you're interested in setting up an AUTOMATED extra few grand a month in your spare time, this will undoubtedly be the most important report you read.... This insider slapped a brown paper envelope on my desk- a highly confidential report. I read... and realized I was about to make a select number of my subscribers the proposition of a lifetime..."

Trust Human Events staffers, too, to be completely factual when they show up on cable news, passing themselves off as experts.

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