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

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.

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

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...

What if Democrats could enact their agenda, with no opposition? They could implement the Biden-Sanders manifesto and eliminate cash bail, “reimagine policing,” and get law enforcement to “change their approach.” Source: Riot-Riddled Cities Aren’t ‘Donald Trump’s America’ | RealClearPolitics

After three months of violence, vandalism, and arson in our biggest cities, all of it excused and encouraged by Democrats, we’re supposed to be impressed that the party’s presidential nominee released a statement calling it “unacceptable.” Source: Joe Biden’s statement on the violence and riots is way too little, way too late

No one is saying athletes should not have social consciences or forums to express their political views. But the game is not such a forum, not if they expect people to attend or tune in. Ostensibly, the NBA boycotts, which other sports are adopting, are illogical. But then, the animating concept behind the player protests — “systemic racism,” derived from...

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” For poor, often Black, communities, a desire for more policing is not at odds with their cries for humane treatment by the men and women in blue....