Commentary: George Orwell was wrong — about the date

George Orwell was wrong!About the date.It wasn’t 1984, it was 2016, for which evidence continues to grow on a daily basis. Orwell had the concepts, though — “Double-Speak” — where the “Ministry of Truth” was actually the office of lies and propaganda — and so forth. In the executive branch of our federal government, we have a racist attorney general who lied about a crime wave, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency who is a climate ch