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  • Taking a Closer Look at Black Lives Matter

    Taking a Closer Look at Black Lives Matter0

    On Monday night, the Black Lives Matter protest came to the sleepy beach town of Huntington Beach, California: about 500 protesters, most of them white, denouncing police brutality against black men. A diverse group of students, retirees and mothers with children faced off against about 200 police officers, some mounted on horses, many of them

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  • Rioters Vandalize Memorial to Victims of Communism

    Rioters Vandalize Memorial to Victims of Communism0

    A memorial to the more than 100 million people killed by communism was vandalized in the midst of the protests resulting from George Floyd’s violent death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. (1/2) Last night the Victims of Communism Memorial in DC was vandalized. You do not advance justice by defacing our country’s memorial

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  • Rebels Without a Logical Clue

    Rebels Without a Logical Clue0

    During the weekend riots and protests in Minneapolis, I saw a news reporter stop a young protester on the street and ask him why he was protesting. “Stop, don’t shoot,” he said. The reporter, wanting something more than this, asked him again, trying to make clear that he was asking for the actual reason the

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  • Check Your Radical Privilege

    Check Your Radical Privilege0

    In the taxpayer-funded, cushy corridors of leftist academe, the radically chic proselytizers of hatred smugly define their concept of “White Privilege”: If you don’t need to care about a societal problem, it is because of your white privilege. (The shorthand for “White privilege” is simply “privilege,” because 1619.) By pouring this racist tenet of cultural

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  • The Dog Mom Movement Birthed Central Park Karen

    The Dog Mom Movement Birthed Central Park Karen0

    Between Coronavirus and the unrest beginning in Minneapolis, another news story briefly reared its head: the confrontation between dog owner Amy Cooper and bird watcher Christian Cooper (who are not related). On social media, the story is being called #CentralParkKaren because of the “Karen” meme that refers to bossy white women. Coverage of #CentralParkKaren has

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  • It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Police Officer

    It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Police Officer0

    What does it take to fire a cop? In comparison to several other high-profile cases in which a police officer has killed someone on video, things have moved remarkably fast in the George Floyd case. The other four officers involved in his arrest were fired from the Minneapolis Police Department the following day. By comparison,

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  • Fauci’s Flip Flops

    Fauci’s Flip Flops0

    Science is almost never “settled.” Science is a collection of hypotheses and theories that are challenged repeatedly to determine whether they can withstand re-examination with new tools, techniques and methodologies. Over the course of history, hypotheses and theories have been abandoned when the results or conclusions were later found to be based on falsified data,

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  • Black Power’s Role in the 2020 Riots

    Black Power’s Role in the 2020 Riots0

    For those in the rest of the country and around the world who are dealing with the riots, looting, and burning which broke out following George Floyd’s tragic death, I have good news: Things are beginning to quiet down in the Minneapolis/St. Paul epicenter. Protests remain, but thankfully the unrestrained chaos is dissipating. Unfortunately, we’re

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  • A History of Presidents Using Military to Restore Order

    A History of Presidents Using Military to Restore Order0

    The National Guard has stepped in to quell the violence in Minneapolis in the wake of riots that occurred over the death of George Floyd. The National Guard has arrived on the scene. They are in Minneapolis and fully prepared. George Floyd will not have died in vain. Respect his memory!!! — Donald J. Trump

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