More than two years ago, I wrote a column titled “Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.” I listed eight examples: — The universities. — The arts: music, art and architecture. — Sports. — Mainstream Judaism, Protestantism and Catholicism. — Race relations. — Women’s happiness. — Children’s innocence. — And, perhaps most disturbingly, America’s commitment to free speech. One should now add the sciences. Source: Everything the Left...

Democrats will finalize their 2020 convention platform this week as they get set to officially nominate Joe Biden to take on President Trump in the general election. The platform is described by many Democrats as the most progressive in history, but falls well short of the radical changes Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) wing of the party has fought for. Still, it...

The latest five-alarm fire in Washington is over a supposed plot to disfranchise voters centered on the United States Postal Service. Source: Post Office Election Conspiracy Theory Is Baseless | National Review

The Austin City Council unanimously voted to cut its police department budget by $150 million on Thursday, after officers and the city’s top cop faced months of criticism over the killing of an unarmed Black and Hispanic man, the use of force against anti-police brutality protesters and the investigation of a demonstrator’s fatal shooting by another citizen. Source: Austin City...

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas announced its plans to open an abortion facility in Lubbock, Texas, after initially keeping the project hidden. Planned Parenthood has utilized this tactic before, discreetly building abortion centers within communities before the neighborhoods can voice objections. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas operates out of 23 locations in the state, but there have been suspicions dating...

The political convention season is underway. On Monday, Democrats will stage a mostly virtual national convention from Milwaukee, where former Vice President Joe Biden will accept his party’s nomination for president. The following week President Donald Trump will be nominated by the GOP for a second term. Source: Republicans must control pandemic, Democrats need vision beyond anti-Trump crusade as election...

The political convention season is underway. On Monday, Democrats will stage a mostly virtual national convention from Milwaukee, where former Vice President Joe Biden will accept his party’s nomination for president. The following week President Donald Trump will be nominated by the GOP for a second term. Source: Republicans must control pandemic, Democrats need vision beyond anti-Trump crusade as election...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected California Sen. Kamala Harris to be his 2020 running mate, prompting the Susan B. Anthony List to dub the duo the “most pro-abortion ticket” in U.S. history. Source: Kamala Harris Adds Abortion Extremism To Democratic Presidential Ticket

Pitched battles for control of state legislative chambers are attracting unheard-of sums of money as Democrats and Republicans home in on once-overlooked elections that will determine which party holds power for the next decade. Source: Democrats, GOP fight high-stakes battle for control of states | TheHill

Pitched battles for control of state legislative chambers are attracting unheard-of sums of money as Democrats and Republicans home in on once-overlooked elections that will determine which party holds power for the next decade. Source: Democrats, GOP fight high-stakes battle for control of states | TheHill