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May 31st, 2022
Rampage shooters tend to be losers. The archetype of the modern school shooter, Eric Harris, frequently wrote in his diary about his feelings of alienation and resentment over his lack of social success.
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May 27th, 2022
More change needed, survivors say, but new lawyers bring signs of hope. Days after a bombshell investigative report, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee (EC) decided to do what previous leaders refused to for 15 years.
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May 27th, 2022
By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – May 26, 2022 Addressing the atrocity in Uvalde, Dan writes that numbers aren’t everything, but they should inform our sense of proportion in nationwide policy-making. Some perspective on the size of the problem and the direction of the trend is always important. The Associated Press counts 169 deaths in 23 years. That’s...
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May 27th, 2022
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 25, 2022 The massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday has produced the usual demands to “do something.” We share the impulse and the anger, but what specifically to do? The reason there are more demands than solutions is because the problem of how to stop mass shootings by...
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May 26th, 2022
By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2022 On the menu today: Yet another horrific school shooting, and yet another call for legal changes that, had they been in place before the shooting, would not have changed the outcome. A few months ago, the National Institute of Justice, the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and The Violence...
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May 26th, 2022
The Southern Baptist Convention has released a nearly 300-page report revealing that its leaders “chose to protect the denomination from lawsuits” rather than those who were sexually abused by more than 700 pastors in its denomination.
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May 24th, 2022
It had to happen. He’s mentioned it multiple times in interviews. No, it’s not the “I didn’t leave the Democrats, the Democrats left me” bit.
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May 20th, 2022
By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – May 18, 2022 Tuesday’s primary elections were a political junkie’s delight, featuring surprising upsets, startling rebukes and razor-thin margins. The Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary is still unresolved when I write, with celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz leading Wall Street banker David McCormick by only 1,684 votes—less than 0.13% of more than 1.3 million ballots...
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May 20th, 2022
If Republicans were to consistently draw just over 30 percent of the Hispanic vote, they would likely dominate American politics in both presidential and congressional races.
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May 19th, 2022
An alarming report from the Department of Homeland Security documents that law enforcement officials are investigating social media threats that radical abortion promoters plan to burn down or storm the Supreme Court building and murder justices and their law clerks when the court’s ruling, expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, is released.
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