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July 7th, 2020
business, COVID, rioters
By: Cultural Research Center – myemail.constantcontact.com – 2020 As the worldwide COVID pandemic and now nationwide protests and riots leave Americans feeling increasingly unsettled and vulnerable, where are they turning for guidance? It’s not to their bibles. The latest results of the inaugural American Worldview Inventory, compiled by renowned author and researcher Dr. George Barna, reveal that a majority of adults...
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July 6th, 2020
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By: Kevin McCullough – townhall.com – July 5, 2020 The single most important domestic issue of our time is not the rising number of new people testing positive for COVID-19. Deaths have hit all-time lows. The single most important domestic issue of our time is not even the continued economic hardship of a nation that was artificially shut down and...
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July 6th, 2020
Cartoon: college grad with blinders on
By: John M. Ellis – wsj.com – July 5, 2020 Most campuses have similar rules of their own. Yet across the country, these categorical prohibitions are now ignored. Academia has become politicized from top to bottom. A typical example: California’s constitution spells out that the University of California “shall be entirely independent of all political or sectarian influence and kept free therefrom.”...
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June 30th, 2020
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...
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June 30th, 2020
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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...
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June 30th, 2020
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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...
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June 25th, 2020
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....
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June 25th, 2020
statue - defaced Andrew Jackson
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....
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June 19th, 2020
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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...
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June 18th, 2020
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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,...
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