Tag Archive for "Trends in Society" - Point of View

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November 17th, 2023

Third Parties

There is little appetite for a rematch.

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November 17th, 2023

No Fooling the Voters

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Few politicians say things that immortalize their words. Abraham Lincoln was a notable exception.

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November 16th, 2023

Joe Biden and the Deep State

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 15, 2023 On Israel, hundreds of federal workers try to undermine his policy. News reports say that no fewer than 500 appointees and staff from 40 agencies, including the National Security Council and the Justice Department, have sent Mr. Biden a letter demanding that he call for a cease-fire and “de-escalation” between...

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November 15th, 2023

Antisemitic Threats and Violence in the West

antisemitism - defaced graves - swastika

The examples here — of which there will sadly and surely be more — are some of the more shocking instances of antisemitic violence since October 7.

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November 10th, 2023

Joe Biden: Organized Crime’s Best Friend

Has any U.S. president done more to expand the influence, revenue and corruption of Latin American cartels, human smugglers and organized crime than Joe Biden? I can almost hear their shouts of “Viva, el Presidente!” and “Vivan a las fronteras abiertas!” (Long live open borders!)

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November 10th, 2023

The War Against the Jews

Soldiers remove civilian in KFAR AZA, ISRAEL

Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

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November 9th, 2023

Canceling Cancel Culture

Free Speech protesters outside of SCOTUS

“I was not genuine in my own beliefs,” says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. “I self-censored.”

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November 8th, 2023

Social Justice is Injustice

When federal judges take the oath of office, they say: “I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.” These words come from the Bible and reflect a key principle of justice in the American tradition, shaped by our Judeo-Christian heritage: Justice isn’t about power. Whether a party is right or wrong in a dispute doesn’t depend on that person’s identity and social station. No longer is it so obvious. For many Americans today, justice—often with the modifier “social” before it—is precisely about power. Rejecting the biblical ideal codified in the judicial oath, our academics, intelligentsia and public figures have embraced the idea that power tells you all you need to know about who is right and who is wrong. This is clear as some of our best and brightest side with the Hamas terrorists in their war against Israel. To those who believe in the biblical ideal of justice, defending Israel’s right to destroy those who commit atrocities against innocents isn’t simple, but involves a moral analysis that yields a clear conclusion. One must look at who acts virtuously and who acts viciously. Though no country is virtuous all the time, Israel seeks peace and in war doesn’t specifically target civilians. Israel holds no kidnapped babies, nor does it steal billions of dollars of foreign aid to build tunnels where terrorists can hide while using women and children as human shields. Hamas is unfathomably evil, by any traditional measure, to Israelis and Gazans. Its barbarism is unjustifiable, even if Palestinians have legitimate grievances against Israel. But to those who believe power analysis is the key to justice, siding with Palestinians—even to the point of cheering Hamas’s atrocities—is simple. Israel is powerful, and Palestinians aren’t. Therefore, whatever Palestinians, even terrorist groups that don’t speak for all Palestinians, do is justified. Among those who believe the trendy logic of the academy, justice is done with respect to persons; doing equally right to rich and poor wrongly entrenches the power of the rich. Recently, a video surfaced of a brave young woman speaking in Israel’s defense at Columbia University. She began her remarks with the obligatory announcement of identities: “I am an African-American, Native American, Jewish woman.” She then exposed her fellow students’ hypocrisy on issues of identity. Though she had been led to believe that her classmates cared about members of all marginalized groups, she had “learned that amongst my peers who openly advocate for the destruction of the one Jewish state, the desire to uplift and accept me is restricted only to the identities of mine they deem worthy.” She deserves applause for her ability to see through the farce of identity-as-justice, especially when manipulated to exclude Jews when convenient. To maintain the principle of equal justice for all, students must not be trained to show they belong to a “marginalized group” for their arguments to be treated as legitimate. But campus orthodoxy demands exactly that. Young people are being programmed to believe that identity is itself an argument—exactly the fallacy that leads to demonizing Israel and Jews around the world merely because they have been successful by some measures. This pseudointellectual dogma has no more place in the academy than the notion that some races are superior or inferior to others. Judges have been understandably reluctant to condemn this worrisome trend. But doing so should be uncontroversial for all who took that oath. Truth and rightness don’t depend on race, color, nationality, sex, religion, net worth or power. Murdering innocents is always wrong; so is cheering it on. That is the view we are sworn to bring to the courtroom. Maintaining it is critical to the rule of law. Though advocates of the new justice now target Jews and Israel, their eyes are trained on upending the fundamental principles of a free and fair society. Ignoring how our educational institutions are training young Americans not only turns a blind eye to the moral perversity among those who celebrate terrorism. It also fills our country with injustice. Judge Solomson serves on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Fortgang is his law clerk.

By: Matthew Solomson and Tal Fortgang – wsj.com – November 7, 2023 Support for Hamas derives from the fashionable idea that power determines what is right and wrong. When federal judges take the oath of office, they say: “I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.” These words come...

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November 7th, 2023

Climate Activists Attack Painting

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – November 6, 2023 Climate activists attacked a 400-year-old painting in a famous London art museum with hammers on Monday, breaking the glass barrier protecting the painting. The vandals targeted the painting Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez, which hangs in the London National Gallery. Painted in 1651, the work depicts the love goddess Venus lounging...

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November 6th, 2023

Antisemitism is Unamerican

Pro-hamas supporters at University of Michigan

By: Miles Smith IV – nationalreview.com – November 5, 2023 Let the recent outbreak of Jew-hatred remind us that the U.S. has a long and rich tradition of affection for the Jewish people — a tradition now under threat. In the aftermath of the Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 Jews, open antisemitism in the United States has never been so painfully obvious....