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Donald Trump Is America’s Best Jobs Creator for Minorities Ever

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At The American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. explains that, until the unpredictable effect of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump was the best jobs creator ever for America’s minority citizens. He writes (abridged): As I watched the television last week and listened to the learned sages pronounce about America, I wondered what country they were […]

A Look at Who Runs Minneapolis

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Minneapolis has long been a bastion of Democrat woke progressivism, writes Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. The city, Mr. Menton points out, has been run top to bottom and at all levels of government “by representatives of the far left wing of the Democratic Party; and that has been true for as far back […]

Big Cities Will Never Be the Same After These Riots and This Pandemic

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Safe Places Report No. 1 The rampage of rioting and looting across the nation, combined with the Covid-19 pandemic, have turned our thinking about big cities upside-down.  Whereas they were previously seen as the epitome of a civilized and exciting life, today they are viewed as harbingers of violence and death.  That’s quite a turnaround. […]

The Myth of Systemic Police Racism

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Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The War on Cops,” writes in the WSJ: This charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and remains so today. However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with […]

Donald Trump is America’s Law and Order President

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At The American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord recalls the chaos of the 1960s, and Americans’ demand then for law and order. He then notes that today, Donald Trump is America’s law and order candidate. He writes (abridged): As one American city after another has exploded into seemingly endless nights of violence in 2020 — every last […]

Trump Motivates Governors to Get Tough

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The Wall Street Journal’s Catherine Lucey and Andrew Restuccia report: President Trump pushed governors to get tough on violent protesters in cities around the U.S. in a conference call Monday, saying, “most of you are weak.” As always, the President can be rude and direct, but no doubt he was speaking for many of the governors’ […]

Minneapolis Is a Failure of Liberalism

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Pat Buchanan writes on his blog, Buchanan.org (abridged): On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets. By whom? By the same cops who had been the constant objects of media derision and mob hatred. Without the thin blue line, far larger sectors of dozens […]

No Choice but to Protect What’s Theirs

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The owners of Corbo’s Bakery in Cleveland stopped rioters from destroying their property by meeting them at the door, armed. The Blaze reports “Bakery co-owner Selena Corbo told WOIO-TV she supports the protesters’ cause but not violence or destruction of property — and that her family had no choice but to protect what’s theirs.” Dave Urbanksi […]