INFRASTRUCTURE & TECHNOLOGY Issued on: July 29, 2020 On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty –  nationalreview.com – July 2020 Whether Donald Trump hangs on for four more years, or turns the White House over to Joe Biden, his first term has exposed a tremendous danger to the office of the president. Unfortunately, that danger is the White House itself, and the larger executive branch around it. The elected president is in peril...

Ten years ago I published an article called “No More Crying ‘Spanish Flu,’ ” in part because with every pandemic or potential pandemic that’s exactly what public health service gurus and the media were doing. And in part because the comparison to the 1918–19 flu was always ludicrous, based not on science but primal fear. Source: Fauci Finally, Falsely, Invokes...

President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling the Republican National Convention events that were scheduled to take place next month in Jacksonville, Fla. – citing the rising numbers of COVID-19 in the state. Source: Trump announces Jacksonville part of GOP convention will be canceled over coronavirus concerns | Fox News

By: William McGurn – wsj.com – July 20, 2020 When it comes to committing American troops abroad, Donald Trump adheres to the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it. The rule, according to Bob Woodward, was invoked in 2002 by Secretary of State Colin Powell to warn George W. Bush about the consequences of invading Iraq. “You are going...

An image from footage of a pyrotechnic mortar exploding in a courthouse lobby after a glass door was broken by Rowan Olsen, 19, of Portland, Ore. (Courtesy of Department of Justice) There is perhaps no starker a picture between Democrats and Republicans then how they have been approached the violent riots and chaos being spread by radical leftists around the...

By: Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post – stamfordadvocate.com – July 9, 2020 The Republican convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month could be moved to an outdoor stadium as cases of the novel coronavirus in the state increase, according to several officials with knowledge of the plans. While no decision has been made, Republican officials are studying two outdoor professional sports stadiums...

By: John Stonestreet & Maria Baer – breakpoint.org – July 7, 2020 Pastoring is always a difficult job. I can’t think of another job, in fact, in which someone is hired to do one thing (typically, lead and disciple God’s people) but evaluated on a completely different thing (namely, growing the audience and the budget). Pastoring during coronavirus seems even more unenviable. Zoom...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – amgreatness.com –  July 5, 2020 Viral confusion Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the...

By: Julie Kelly – amgreatness.com – June 29, 2020 What Facebook and Twitter are doing is no less insidious than meddling by a foreign adversary. Their activity is political, not commercial. A college senior raised in a conservative household now posting Black Lives Matter propaganda on her Instagram account. A son-in-law berating his wife’s self-made millionaire family about racism and Donald Trump....