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• Dennis Prager: Why the Left Opposes Arming Teachers
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• Stephen Moore: How Environmentalists Keep Heating Bills High
• Tony Perkins: For Dems, a Conflict of Centrist

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Opinion in Brief

Dennis Prager: “Fighting evil is the Left’s Achilles heel. As I have repeatedly noted, the Left fights little evils, or even non-evils, rather than great evils. With regard to fighting communism in the 20th century and today fighting radical Islamic terror and Islamist treatment of women, the Stalinist North Korean regime, the Holocaust-denying and Holocaust-planning theocracy of Iran, the Syrian mass murderers and the violent crime in America, the Left is either silent or appeasing. And, of course, it works constantly to weaken the American military, the world’s greatest force against evil. But the Left does direct its fighting spirit against Confederate statues, schools with the name of slave owners (including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson), carbon emissions, income inequality, ‘microaggressions,’ ‘white privilege,’ any limitation on abortion, Columbus Day, ‘Islamophobia,’ Israeli settlements, ‘Russian collusion’ and the like. Against these minimal or nonexistent evils, the Left is ferocious. That is why the Left opposes enabling some teachers and other adults in schools to carry arms in order to possibly stop a mass murderer: The Left doesn’t fight evil; it fights those who do. Just as the Left hated anti-communists, hates opponents of Islamism and hates Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (far more than the Iranian ayatollahs), it hates those who wish to see teachers and others voluntarily armed take down the murderers of our children.”