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July 20th, 2020
Statue of Andrew Jackson
This must be our wake-up call, because as Ronald Reagan also admonished, freedom must be fought for, protected, and handed on to our children to do the same, or one day, we’ll be telling our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Source: It’s About More Than Toppling Statues. It’s About Toppling...
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July 17th, 2020
culture vs counter culture
The problem with snowflakes is that eventually they melt. So here’s a message to any part of the cancel culture: If you don’t want people to cancel you or your work, then stop cancelling the work of others. Source: Cancel Culture Forgets It Can Be Canceled Too | Newsmax.com
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July 17th, 2020
Base of Monument defaced w paint
I have always believed that bureaucrats working on behalf of the American people should be visibly neutral politically. We shouldn’t know what their political ideologies are or what political parties they belong to or the causes they support. Source: Federal Government Stamp of Approval of BLM
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July 17th, 2020
US Map - counties battling COVID
Forty five percent of counties across the United States are currently battling uncontrollable COVID-19 outbreaks, a data map shows – as the latest models predict the number of deaths will surge by at least 20,000 in the next four weeks. Source: Coronavirus US: 45% of counties seeing epidemic spread | Daily Mail Online
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July 15th, 2020
protesters in Detroit
The Jacobin Left is just now beginning to get edgy.  A few of its appeasers and abettors are becoming embarrassed by some of the outright racists and nihilists of BLM and the Maoists of Antifa — and their wannabe hangers-on who troll the Internet hoping to scalp some minor celebrity.  Source: Protests & The Left: Peak Jacobinism? | National Review
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July 13th, 2020
Blood sample - Covid-19 antibody test - Houston
By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 6, 2020 Some early assumptions about Covid-19 no longer add up—and that could be good news for the future progress of the virus. There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity is closer than we think. Chinese authorities say they first...
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July 13th, 2020
Frederick Douglas statue, Rochester, NY
Frederick Douglass was one of America’s greatest orators, abolitionists, social reformers, and statesmen. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, he delivered the address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” A statue of Douglass was eventually erected in Rochester, New York, where he lived and...
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July 10th, 2020
mortar exploding in a courthouse lobby after a glass door was broken by Rowan Olsen, 19, of Portland
An image from footage of a pyrotechnic mortar exploding in a courthouse lobby after a glass door was broken by Rowan Olsen, 19, of Portland, Ore. (Courtesy of Department of Justice) There is perhaps no starker a picture between Democrats and Republicans then how they have been approached the violent riots and chaos being spread by radical leftists around the...
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July 9th, 2020
Protesters try to tear down statue of Andrew Jackson
By: Victor Davis Hanson – dailycaller.com – July 9, 2020 A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics. She won a huge audience as she intended. But her video also came to the...
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July 9th, 2020
Harold Uhlig & Paul Krugman tweets
By: John Stossel – townhall.com – July 8, 2020 The online mob came for Harald Uhlig. What terrible thing had he done? As I show in my new video, he tweeted that Black Lives Matter “torpedoed itself, with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice.” Instead of defunding, Uhlig suggested, “train them better.” Hundreds of people then signed a petition to demand that...
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