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“There are no perfect humans. Every single one of us has done or will do something that will deeply offend someone else or not age well. This applies to historical figures as well as important thinkers and writers. Their ideas, stories, and legacies are not diminished because of an alleged ‘sin’ according to modern woke acolytes. The correct response is to take their good with the bad and critically think about their ideas in the context of their time. It is wrong to rewrite or diminish writers … because what they wrote might offend (or in all honestly might speak truth to) modern audiences.” —Emmy Griffin

Re: The Left

“Some 40 years ago, a famous national study on the condition of America’s schools warned of a ‘crisis of mediocrity’ in education. Today, things have deteriorated so much that mediocrity would be an improvement and is considered ‘commendable.’ … A mind is a terrible thing to waste. And our public schools are wasting millions of minds week after week while they spend billions upon billions of dollars on Lord knows what. It’s time for bold new approaches. —Stephen Moore

"Americans increasingly have chosen ‘divorce’ by way of moving. There’s a reason California and New York are losing population while Texas and Florida are gaining. … We’re tired of being governed by Democrats and their allies in the deep state when they obviously hate us and everything we stand for. We’re tired of them tearing down everything our Founders and forebears built. We’re tired of their contempt for our nation.” —Nate Jackson

“A Supreme Court ruling against Google or Twitter would narrow the scope of Section 230 and add momentum to legislative efforts to revise the law. It would also make the tech companies more gun-shy. Confronted with the risk of more lawsuits, the internet’s gatekeepers will crack down. Most Americans would welcome that where Islamist radicalism is concerned. But the tech companies have shown that they have a distinctly partisan idea of what constitutes domestic extremism. The progressive notion of ‘hate speech’ covers much more than the advocacy of violence. Can the tech companies be trusted to draw the right lines between actual extremism and conservative politics that Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates — or some millennial manager — finds distasteful? We already know the answer.” —Daniel McCarthy

For the Record

“[Tucker] Carlson has been granted access, by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, to all 41,000 hours of video footage of the ‘mostly peaceful’ January 6 riot at the Capitol — footage former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept under lock and key during the entirety of her rigged committee’s J6 investigation dog and pony show. … The truth is, Nancy and company cherry-picked the footage and made their strongest, most damning prosecutorial case with it. Now the American people will have a two-years-overdue opportunity to see what really happened — not just what the Democrats want us to think happened.” —Douglas Andrews

“Fake 2020 Joe Biden was a thoughtful man who used his moderate political stances to bring people together. Real Joe Biden is — and always has been — a hateful, divisive piece of work who shoots from the lip and whose politics are malleable so he can adjust to whatever the moment requires of him.” —Stephen Kruiser

Race/Sexism Bait

“On #PresidentsDay, it is important to recall that at least twelve U.S. presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively enslaved nearly 2,000 Black people. We know what largely built this nation, and it wasn’t freedom.” —Ibram X. Kendi (“It’s also important to remember that many of them built the Constitutional system that allowed for future generations to abolish slavery, and the system that has allowed you to become extraordinarily wealthy and famous grifting about the evils of the country that has given you those things.” —Ben Shapiro)

“[Ron DeSantis] would govern … by replacing a multitude of ideas with the one idea he holds dear: the centrality of white Christian thought — and who, let’s be clear, is using 'woke’ to mean any notion that brown, black, LGBTQ people, and women are citizens rather than subjects.” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid

Non Sequitur

“You can say you back the blue, but if you don’t back gun control and gun availability, you don’t back the blue.” —Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney