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Several right-of-center politicians and commentators are outraged over Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine. The hawks accuse the Florida governor of showing American weakness.

In the midst of many positive things that are happening in America and abroad, including the beginnings of both spiritual and moral awakenings, there’s also plenty of evidence that, on another level, the world is losing its mind. Here are some striking, recent examples.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – March 16, 2023 Gallup’s pollsters published a troubling discovery on Tuesday in a survey asking American adults how they were coping with post-pandemic life: For a shocking number of Americans, there is no such thing as post-pandemic life. In the last week of February, only 33 percent of Americans said their life “is completely…

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), whose collapse last week has triggered a global banking crisis, donated over $73 million to the BLM movement.  

By: Alan S. Blinder –  wsj.com – March 15, 2023 But don’t succumb to Yogi Berra Syndrome and declare this déjà vu all over again. This isn’t a replay of 2008. Yes, the problems at SVB initially were characterized as small and contained, redolent of the original attitudes toward subprime mortgages in 2006-08. But this time around, it took the authorities…

Students at Stanford Law School staged a protest against Dean Jenny Martinez on Monday after she apologized for the disruption of an event featuring federal appellate court Judge Kyle Duncan last week.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – March 14, 2023 Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there’s another, worse charge against the Bard — he created the concept of whiteness. Yes, instead of standing in the line of such literary giants as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be…

Prices rose by 0.4 percent in February and core inflation was up 0.5 percent, the third consecutive month that it has increased.

The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors.

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – March 12, 2023 International Women’s Day, replete with ceremonies and demonstrations, has come and gone. In the United States, demonstrators could have celebrated the unprecedented freedom, prosperity and achievements attained by the fair sex in America. Instead, they mostly whined that because of the Dobbs ruling, it’s getting less convenient to kill unborn babies….

The question now is what punishments Stanford should impose. I think that it’s clear that DEI dean Tirien Steinbach should be fired. As for the student protestors, Stanford’s written policy on campus disruptions—a policy that Steinbach herself linked to in her email to students before the event—provides valuable guidance.