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What are the two most hated countries in the world? America and Israel. Who hates both America and Israel? The left (and Islamists). And why is that?
If you take black and white left-wing rhetoric seriously, blacks are not human beings like members of other races.
America is, in fact, the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history.
Virtually every time we read about a swastika painted on a door, or a noose hanging from a tree to taunt blacks, it turns out to be either a false alarm or, more frequently, a hoax.
Only those who don't care about blacks other than using them to advance their power — Democrats and the rest of the left, both black and white — argue this war against the police is good for blacks.
If you are a Jew or Christian in America, the seriousness of your Judaism or Christianity is now being tested.
"Do not follow the majority to do evil." —Exodus 23:2
It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too. But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.
Virtually every conservative in America knows the title of this column is true. Virtually every leftist knows it, too, but lying for the cause is what the left does (think "Russian collusion").
Before responding to Pinker's remarkably ignorant tweet, I want to praise him.
We have a meme up at PragerU: "'Until it's safe' means 'never.'"
Three years ago, I wrote a column explaining left-right differences on 35 different subjects. Any one or two of them would make for a major political/cultural divide.
Here is the case for why the worldwide lockdown is not only a mistake but also, possibly, the worst mistake the world has ever made.
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right ("America is headed to communism") and the left ("It can happen here" — referring to fascism).
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the United States.
Why are governments the world over rendering hundreds of millions of their citizens jobless, impoverishing at least a billion people, endangering the family life of millions (straining marriages, increasing child and spousal abuse, and further postponing marriage among young people), bankrupting vast numbers of business owners and workers living paycheck to paycheck, and increasing suicides?
A statement widely attributed to the great British thinker G. K. Chesterton describes the modern period as perfectly as any single idea can: "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything."
If there is one thing on which you'd think left and right could agree, it would be the proper response to the present coronavirus.
Since we are all stuck at home for weeks, here are some suggestions to help you and help America.
As of this writing, 6,400 people all over the world have died from the coronavirus. In the United States, 68 people have died.
