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  • Political Correctness in the History of the South

    Political Correctness in the History of the South0

    I was recently gifted “The South Was Right,” by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift. The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate

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  • Policing Was Militarized from the Start

    Policing Was Militarized from the Start0

    “Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” complained Iraqi resident Wael al-Khafaji, pointing to a spot just a few feet from his Baghdad barbershop.  “He can do whatever he wants to me right now and I can’t say a word. Is this democracy?” Before the U.S. invasion, this businessman – like millions of other

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  • Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons

    Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons1

    In his book, Free To Learn, Boston College psychology professor Peter Gray makes the connection between school and prison. He writes: “Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody beyond school age says it is. It’s not polite.” It’s a prison in that young people are compelled to

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  • Police Encounters and Race

    Police Encounters and Race0

    “Son, you are going to jail,” the policeman told the terrified young man he had just stopped on a Virginia highway during a snowstorm. He put the young man, who was scared speechless, in the back seat of the police car, and accused the young man of damaging a guard rail on Route 29 with

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  • Police Cite Bogus ‘New Law’ to Get Uber Driver to Stop Recording

    Police Cite Bogus ‘New Law’ to Get Uber Driver to Stop Recording0

    Jesse Bright was driving Uber when he was pulled over by Wilmington, N.C., police officers, who arrested the passenger he was driving. When police asked to search Bright’s vehicle, he politely declined and informed officers he was recording the stop. Police didn’t seem to like that. They demanded Bright stop recording, and when he refused

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  • Police Are Safer than Ever

    Police Are Safer than Ever0

    Following the tragic and horrible events in Dallas last week, it is important to grieve and to take stock of what led to that fateful evening that ended with five police officers killed. But it’s also worth taking a step back and putting the problems and threats the police face today into perspective. The sniper

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