By: Chris Morton – thefederalist.com – June 6, 2020 With the George Floyd protests and riots, feelings and emotions have inevitably diverged with statistical fact more than ever. The narrative is rammed down our throats at a rapid rate, while the statistical data is inevitably more complex and requires part of an afternoon to digest. In the age of high-octane social media, part...

By: Phil Shiver – theblaze.com – June 4, 2020 A new Project Veritas video appears to show the inner workings of an Antifa operation in Portland, Oregon, where recruits are trained on how to incite violence in order to “destroy” their enemies. In the video, an unidentified journalist who said he posed as an Antifa recruit detailed how the local...

By: Phil Shiver – theblaze.com – June 4, 2020 A new Project Veritas video appears to show the inner workings of an Antifa operation in Portland, Oregon, where recruits are trained on how to incite violence in order to “destroy” their enemies. In the video, an unidentified journalist who said he posed as an Antifa recruit detailed how the local...

By: Sam Levin – theguardian.com – June 4, 2020 The movement to defund the police is gaining significant support across America, including from elected leaders, as protests over the killing of George Floyd sweep the nation. For years, activists have pushed US cities and states to cut law enforcement budgets amid a dramatic rise in spending on police and prisons while...

By: David Harsanyi – nationalreview.com – June 3, 2020 It’s weird that this needs to be said, but here we are. Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property “is not violence” risks nothing. She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment. Much the same, I suspect, most of those excusing the destruction of our cities — either contending...

By: Heather Mac Donald – wsj.com – June 2, 2020 George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the...

By: Andrew McCarthy – foxnews.com – May 31, 2020 Attorney General William Barr issued a statement Saturday decrying the rioters who have violently hijacked peaceful protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The attorney general made explicit reference to “groups of outside radicals and agitators” who are pursuing a “separate and violent agenda.” Barr added: “In many...

By: Deroy Murdock – foxnews.com – May 30, 2020 In the name of George Floyd, Minneapolis rioters have done a huge injustice to George Floyd. Floyd, 46, is dead. A widely viewed video confirms that the unarmed black man was killed after white police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, arrested him for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill, handcuffed him, pinned...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – May 29, 2020 Why do they keep doing it? Decade after decade, generation after generation, progressives keep making the same, elemental mistake: They downplay, excuse, and in extreme cases even encourage urban rioters. We’ve been down this road before, and it’s a straight stretch of highway with no twists whatsoever. It would take a...

By: Avik Roy – Forbes.com – May 26, 2020 Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A single statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate: the astounding share of deaths occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: The #1 COVID problem 2.1...