By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 22, 2025 This was a chillingly calculated attack. The Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot was bad enough as it was originally revealed when the assassin (Nicholas Roske, a man identifying as a woman in court proceedings, a fact first reported in 2022) encountered law enforcement and turned himself in. The assassin has pleaded guilty and will soon be sentenced….
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Kerby Anderson Two weeks ago, I explained that there are no simple solutions when it comes to violence in America. At the time, I was talking about the horrible news of the school shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school. The latest violent acts once again illustrate this principle. First, there was the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a train in…
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By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – September 21, 2025 The sanctimonious calls for unity are a little hard to take. In the days following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, members of the Democratic Party and the press have complained that the right is not doing more to promote unity. Unity would be nice, sure. You first. “At moments like this,…
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By: Peter Navarro – washingtontimes.com – September 17, 2025 Charles J. Kirk will go down in history as the most effective political organizer in presidential politics in the past 50 years. His achievement stands out for its scale and difficulty: persuading and mobilizing a generation of voters long presumed to be the Democrats’ natural property. To understand the measure of…
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Kerby Anderson The news these few months is full of violence with both shootings and stabbings. It’s worth taking a moment to evaluate and challenge some of the phrases being used by pundits and politicians. One of the most prevalent is to decry political violence “on both sides.” Let’s start with an obvious perspective. Political violence is wrong whether committed…
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By: Barton Swaim – wsj.com – September 17, 2025 Charlie Kirk’s murder demonstrates how the credentialed class keeps itself ignorant. A day later the Times issued a correction: “An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social…
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By: Ezra Klein – nytimes.com – September 14 The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As a country, we came a step closer to losing everything, too. We’ve been edging closer for…
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Penna Dexter It only takes a few minutes. Just watch an interaction between Charlie Kirk and a college student. You’ll learn some good arguments on an important cultural issue. And you’ll get a lesson in civil discourse done with excellence, mercy and grace. Commentator, Rod Dreher wrote of the late Charlie Kirk: “True, he could throw some rhetorical punches,…
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By: Allison Pohle and Chip Cutter – wsj.com – September 15, 2025 Campaigns to alert employers to contentious posts are posing new challenges for bosses; ‘This is very different’ from past political controversies at work. Workers across the country who’ve mocked Charlie Kirk’s death online have quickly learned their words can get them fired. From American Airlines to Nasdaq—and in…
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Kerby Anderson Depression in the U.S. has reached record levels. According to the latest Gallup poll, “The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29%, nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015.” This is a troubling statistic, especially at a time when the country is enjoying a…
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By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 17, 2025 Telling us that it doesn’t matter when one side commits violence warps public policy, news coverage, and more. After Tuesday’s press conference by Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray laying out extensive excerpts from text messages that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer sent to his transgender romantic partner, as well as other evidence collected in…
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