Culture

Denuding Monument Avenue One Statue at a Time 0
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- June 5, 2020
Last week Gov. Ralph Northam announced his plan to remove the iconic statue of Robert E. Lee from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. This step will be the beginning of an undertaking that calls for the removal of four other statues of Confederate heroes, including that of Jefferson Davis. The now endangered statues have long been beloved
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On Our Own in the Face of Anarchy 0
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- June 5, 2020
It’s 2 A.M. and you are sound asleep in your basement apartment when a crash from upstairs awakens you. You sit up groggily, wondering if you are dreaming the voices and laughter you hear from upstairs. When you hear more crashes and more laughter, a rush of adrenaline brings you quickly to your feet. Slipping
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Modern Plagues and the Prescience of Ray Bradbury 0
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- June 4, 2020
I am haunted by a lonely man. At sundown every day, he walked the neighborhood sidewalks, glancing at lives through windows. “Was that a murmur of laughter from within a moon-white house?” he asked as he passed the homes of his neighbors. He could not see people or their faces, just the glare of light
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Black Looting Victim: Our Business ‘Is Our Ministry’0
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- June 4, 2020
The nation has reached a baffling moment in our history: looting and torching minority-owned businesses for racial equality. The weeklong pandemic of mob violence following the death of George Floyd has destroyed minority business owners’ dreams, denied young minorities jobs, and left neighborhoods depleted, depressed, and alone. While ideologues like 1619 Project leader Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Prosecutions Show Voter Fraud Is Bipartisan 0
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- June 4, 2020
As the 2020 election cycle continues to unfold despite the coronavirus pandemic, it appears that election fraud also continues to be uncovered and prosecuted, even though Twitter apparently thinks no such fraud occurs. Two cases – one out of Philadelphia, the other out of West Virginia – highlight the problem of election fraud and the
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Rebels Without a Logical Clue 0
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- June 3, 2020
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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