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By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 22, 2019 Over the last 72 hours, I’ve been asking myself a simple question: What would happen if a group of Black Israelites had spent an hour taunting my son’s high-school football team? How would they have reacted if a Native American elder had walked into their midst – apparently not saying anything…

Welcome to another controversy algorithmically designed to tear America apart. By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – January 22, 2019 In a short story published last October, “Sort by Controversial,” Scott Alexander imagines a Silicon Valley company that accidentally comes up with an algorithm to generate what it calls a “Scissor.” The scissor is a statement, an idea or a scenario…

By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – January 19, 2019 One of the frustrating tics of our society’s progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in the past, that this generation is the first to wrestle with dominance and cruelty. This forgetting of human experience, this perpetual present-tenseness, pervades the latest flashpoint in the culture…

By: Associated Press – nbcnews.com – January 21, 2019 The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, the school’s president said, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to…

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – January 21, 2019 And the pressure they bring to bear will be a major test of faith for Christians. Think of a country where leading politicians question whether members of a long-established religious minority are fit for public office. Or where the head of state attacks the legal protections that allow minority religions…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 21, 2019 One of the hallmarks of populism is that it rarely represents mass mobilization simply for the people. It’s also typically mass mobilization against an opposing force — whether it’s the hated elite or the despised “other.” The for/against dynamic is inherent to some degree in all of politics, but mobilization against…

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – January 21, 2019 Is it possible to shoot oneself in the face and not realize it? Better yet, have someone else shoot you in the face and be totally oblivious to that fact? Last week, BuzzFeed did its reputation proud by pushing an article that said President Trump had directed his ex-personal lawyer Michael…

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – January 20, 2019 Like the Wizard of Oz, the media are using all their special effects to shock us and awe us. To keep us from seeing the “man behind the curtain.” And too many conservatives and Christians are playing along. They’re letting the reign of terror get to them. That’s the lesson of…

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – January 20, 2019 Like the Wizard of Oz, the media are using all their special effects to shock us and awe us. To keep us from seeing the “man behind the curtain.” And too many conservatives and Christians are playing along. They’re letting the reign of terror get to them. That’s the lesson of…

By: Nick Sandmann – cnn.com – January 20, 2019 I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me. I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at…

By: Malachi Bailey – www.westernjournal.com – January 19, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, pointing to “security concerns” at the Capitol during the government shutdown. Now a Republican lawmaker has offered the president an alternative venue for the speech. Pelosi sent a letter to Trump on Wednesday suggesting that…