In the wake of unprecedented anti-government protests last week in Cuba, it is worth contemplating how the island’s rich ruling elite have cultivated a monstrous, merciless state-security structure for just such a moment. The Cuban government has unleashed an unprecedented wave of terror, reports Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who through the years has written much on […]
Where Is the Biden Administration?
Cuba is experiencing its sixth day of anti-government protests, and American lawmakers still are at odds on how to respond to the plight of Cuban demonstrators. Editors at The Dispatch review the political discourse: Disagreement over the unrest’s root causes is driving these debates, which up until yesterday the Biden administration had been reluctant to […]
U.S. to Reject Cuban Refugees Fleeing by Boat?
Reporting on the building crisis in Cuba/Haiti, BRIGHT editors observe: Cartels sending unaccompanied children across the U.S.-Mexico border for profit, fine. Cuban refugees escaping prosecution by boat, bad. Given the Biden administration’s ongoing stance on immigration, what is it actually saying about what is going on in Cuba or Haiti, BRIGHT editors ask. Department of […]
Florida, Texas, Montana Against COVID Coercion
Originally posted on April 20, 2021. Will you need a COVID vaccine passport to return to work or travel, to attend a sports event or a family wedding? More and more blue state politicians seem to be all for these passports. Christopher Bedford in The Federalist wonders, will Republican governors have the courage to break […]
Biden’s Speech: “A Jim Crow Assault” on Election Security?
In what David Harsanyi calls “fabricated panic,” Joe Biden offered lots of hyperbole and precious little substance. The president called the laws “odious,” “pernicious,” “vicious,” and “unconscionable,” a “subversion and suppression,” the “21st-century Jim Crow,” and the sure sign of an emerging “autocracy.” Joe Biden, speaking at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, […]
Push Back or Lose the Soul of America
In a recent essay, Abigail Shrier warns Americans how high the stakes are in the fight against the Progressive left. Ms. Shrier explains in substack.com how “Aw Shucks Conservatives” are not pushing back hard enough against the assault on Judeo-Christian religions, American traditions/symbols, and individual rights. The Left wages war every day, in every school […]
New England’s 10 Best Lobster Rolls
In Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip Guide to New England’s Best Lobster Joints (Countryman Press, 2012) Mike Urban, food and travel writer, had the enviable task of picking the 10 best lobster rolls in New England. (What wasn’t on the list, rest assured, was the McDonald’s lobster roll.) Chatham Pier Fish Market | Chatham, MA Located at Cape Cod’s […]
How to (Not) Justify CRT Laws Being Passed?
From David French at the Dispatch: Existing anti-CRT bills would ban teaching even some of the arguments of Martin Luther King. If you want to teach history, civics, and law more effectively, there are abundant examples of high quality curricula you can propose and enact rather than banning ideas. In The Federalist, Spencer Lindquist writes: […]
Clarifying the Politic Pablum of Our Time
Biden’s executive orders cascade like the output from a popcorn machine, writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. On 25 June, Joe Biden issued an order to: “advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the federal workforce.” Meaning, as Henninger notes, the DEIA will enter every nook they can find in American life. A phrase […]
Hatred of America and Everything It Embodies?
Ask any kid of college age, challenges Francis Menton, aka The Manhattan Contrarian, what he or she dislikes about America, and you’ll most likely hear “capitalism.” Mr. Menton then explains that capitalism is not a belief system. There is no political party anywhere that claims to stand for “capitalism.” There is no place you can […]
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