By: Victor Davis Hanson – amgreatness.com – June 28, 2020 The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy. The Democratic left-wing primary agendas, from the New Green Deal...

By: Mike Miller – redstate.com – June 29, 2020 On today’s episode of “The Twilight Zone,” activists on Sunday set up a guillotine in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Washington, D.C. home, and demanded that Amazon be “abolished.” Abolished? By whom? And which is worse, being “canceled,” or being “abolished”? This is whole thing is getting very confusing. In video shot by...

By: Elizabeth Powers – nationalreview.com – June 29, 2020 For the origins of ‘woke’ culture, look to the turn that higher education took half a century ago. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial drew attention to the source of the moral denunciation that now dominates journalism: namely, “dogmas that began in the universities.” These dogmas go by various names (among...

By: The Heartland Institute – redstate.com – June 24, 2020 Over the past month or so, Black Lives Matter (BLM) has become a power player in the political arena. According to Pew Research, 67 percent of American adults support BLM and 38 percent strongly support BLM. Obviously, the death of George Floyd was a tragedy. And even more obviously, racism is abhorrent....

By: Conrad Black – nationalreview.com – June 23, 2020 The movement to tear down statues or even just to deface them was misconceived in its earliest stages and has now, like most aspects of the self-flagellating fever over “systemic racism,” evolved from just concerns about offending African-American sensibilities into an assault on the entire body of achievement of Western civilization....

By:  John Stossel – t0wnhall.com – June 17, 2020 For my internet video this week, my staff showed me clips of violent cops. It’s not just Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes — it’s the other cops who just watch. It’s the Buffalo cops who floored a protester and simply walked by as he lay...

By: First Liberty – firstliberty.org – June 17, 2020 Providence, RI—First Liberty Institute and William Wray Jr., an attorney at Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., today filed a charge of discrimination with the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights against Westerly, Rhode Island’s Memorial and Library Association for banning a blind woman from Wilcox Park and Westerly Public Library in Westerly,...

By: Sen. Josh Hawley – thepublicdiscourse.com – June 16, 2020 I rise today to offer a few thoughts about the Bostock case handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. I have it here. I have now had the chance to read the case, the decision by the majority of the court, and the two dissenting opinions, and I have to say I...

By: Daniel Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 15, 2020 Within 35 minutes today at 10 a.m. Eastern, what some thought was the most conservative Supreme Court of all time concocted a fundamental right to transgenderism in the context of labor law, erased the Second Amendment, and interfered with a state death penalty case, but declined to interfere with a California law that criminalizes law...

A string of recent race-related incidents have exposed painful divisions that run deep in our society. The most high profile of these incidents — the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer — launched our nation into a renewed conversation about racial injustice. CBS News reports that there have been over 700 Black Lives Matter demonstrations spanning all...