On Tuesday, Harper’s published a letter on what the WSJ describes as the “ferocious campaign of coerced conformity sweeping America’s liberal institutions as they purge dissent from the hard-left line.” Editors are fired for running controversial pieces Books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity Journalists are barred from writing on certain topics Professors are investigated for […]
Why Isn’t NYC Gripped with Terror?
Between 29 June (Monday) and 5 July (Sunday), there were more than 74 shooting incidents in NYC. The 101 victims from those shootings, reports the New York Post, were more than triple the number from the same period in 2019. Where the Shootings Aren’t Where are the shootings? Not in the leafy streets of any […]
BLM Signs Abound while Minority Businesses Destroyed
It’s bad enough that big blue city minorities are denied decent educations and jobs. Now minorities are facing the aftermath of the “peaceful” protests in many of our Democratic-run cities. Take Minneapolis. In large part, the city remains in ruins, reports the WSJ. Boarded-up storefronts still display makeshift notices that read “black owned” or “minority […]
Five Ways You Can Fight the Cultural Civil War
Who hasn’t caved under pressure from the “woke” mob? It’s easy to think “everyone” has. And, yes, plenty have – Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media, corporate America, the NFL, the NBA, and the entire Democratic Party (along with not a few Republicans and Independents). There are many of us, however, who don’t accept […]
Trump at Mt. Rushmore, 3 July 2020
In what sounded like a familiar Fourth of July ode to liberty and U.S. achievement, President Donald Trump delivered a speech that could be labeled “Cancel Culture”, or what Roger Kimball refers to as the politically correct culture of intolerance. The Intolerance of Cancel Culture Roger Kimball writes in American Greatness, cancel culture is “the […]
Cardinal Dolan on the Dangers of Cancel Culture
In an op-ed for the WSJ, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, explores the dangers of cancel culture. In pointing out the importance of honoring the good in our history while remembering the bad. Addressing a criticism of naming a church after, say, Mary Magdalene, “not always a paragon of virtue for a chunk […]
Mexico’s Deadly Crisis – Drug Cartels and Pandemic
Mexico’s problems become our own? With the rising power of the drug cartels coupled with the destabilizing effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, “the Mexican state is in serious trouble,” warns John Davidson in The Federalist. With so much turmoil and trouble across the country right now, most Americans are probably not thinking about our southern […]
Stoke Chaos, Obstruct Recovery, Keep Biden in the Basement
Joe Biden’s early career, Victor Davis Hanson writes in NRO, “illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in full control of his faculties.” Biden’s Latently Bigoted Trademarks We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and […]
Hospital Capacity Crisis? Zero!
There is no crisis in hospital capacity anywhere in the country, reports Heather Mac Donald in Spectator.US. Where Are the Deaths? Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate […]
Play Ball and Make It Snappy!
Baseball, by some rumors, is back. It will be brief, but, as Jason Gay questions in the WSJ, will it be better? Assuming there are no disruptions due to Covid-19, there will be only 60 games since it’s so late in the season, instead of the traditional 162 games. As Mr. Gay observes, lopping off […]
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