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To see this article and subscribe to others like it, click read more. I support loud, angry protests. But it’s never okay to coerce people’s participation. Source: Opinion | Lauren Victor: Why I refused demands from Black Lives Matter protesters to raise my fist – The Washington Post

“The 2020 election is not about personalities, parties, or even politics. It is an election to determine the dominant worldview in America.” That is one of the key conclusions drawn by researcher and bestselling author Dr. George Barna, based on the most recent findings from the American Worldview Inventory 2020—the groundbreaking research project he is directing for the Cultural Research…

Recent events have highlighted calls for policing reform nationwide, from both conservatives and liberals. At first glance, this sounds like a rare moment of bipartisan agreement. Unfortunately it is not. Both sides approach the concept of policing differently and share very little in terms of how it needs to be reformed. Source: Don’t defund the police. Improve policing.

In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because the word narrative suggests that there’s no objective truth. There’s no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own narrative. And you get to…

Near-total control of the federal appeals courts is within reach for legal conservatives if President Donald Trump is reelected, administration allies believe. Source: Conservative Takeover of Appeals Court in Reach with Trump Reelection – Washington Free Beacon

The great realignment is over. The Republicans are now the working-class party while the Democrats are the party of the political establishment. Source: Feehery: The working-class party | TheHill

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – September 2, 2020 After Hurricane Isaias ran up the East Coast, a man interviewed in the New York City borough of Queens stood amid the rubble of snapped trees and downed wires in his neighborhood and pondered the Furies: “We’re only halfway through 2020 and we’ve had a pandemic, riots and now a hurricane…

It’s hard to predict most things in politics — just ask every pundit who tried in 2016. Source: There’s Only One Way To Avert An Election Disaster — Open The Polls | The Daily Caller

A major new study reveals “an overwhelming majority” of donors don’t expect COVID-19 will curtail their charitable giving for the rest of the year. Source: Major New Study on Charitable Giving Offers ‘Reassurance and Warning’ to Faith-Based Nonprofits – NRB.org

The protests that sprang up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis seemed like spontaneous outpourings of grief and anger. They weren’t entirely. Though many who joined their ranks may have been moved by outrage at the images of Floyd’s death, those operating behind the scenes have prepared for this moment for a long time. Source: To Destroy…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – September 2, 2020 The unsustainable fiction of ‘mostly peaceful’ protests Reporters standing in front of scenes of arson, flames billowing behind them, not very far from scenes of shooting and murder, insist that the protests are “mostly peaceful.” National Public Radio and a multi-billion-dollar global media conglomerate team up to bring you an illiterate “defense…