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The racial Jacobins haven't eased up in their post-George Floyd ferocity; if anything they are growing more indiscriminate in their determination to enforce political conformity and to punish anything they regard as thoughtcrime.
For years, Saudi Arabia worked tirelessly to export Wahhabism, its home-grown strain of intolerant Islam, to Muslim communities worldwide. It poured many billions of dollars into funding mosques, schools, and cultural organizations that promoted Islamist extremism.
The gun control crowd isn't having a good year. Americans have been buying firearms at a phenomenal pace. From January through May, the FBI conducted 15.2 million background checks on people purchasing guns through licensed dealers — an increase of 3.7 million over the number of background checks during the same period last year.
The House of Representatives is poised to make a bit of history on Friday, when, with all-but-unanimous Democratic support, it is expected to approve a bill — H.R. 51 — that would make Washington, DC, the nation's 51st state.
The nationwide backlash against police abuses has already had one salutary effect: It has led to greater awareness of the role played by labor unions in protecting bad cops. In the wake of George Floyd's death, calls to reform the powerful police unions have been expressed across the political spectrum. But the only way to "reform" police unions is to abolish them altogether and end collective bargaining for public-safety employees.
Not for the first time, the statue of Christopher Columbus on Boston's North End waterfront was badly vandalized Tuesday night: Its head was knocked to the ground. In the past, the statue has always been repaired and restored, but this time the vandals will get their way.
It made headlines when former Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview Sunday that he would vote for Democrat Joe Biden in November and "cannot, in any way, support President Trump." But it wasn't really news.
Anyone who loves America has to be heartsick at the violence, mayhem, and pillaging that ignited in scores of cities nationwide.
Any lingering doubts that China means to wipe out Hong Kong's economic and democratic liberties were dispelled for good last week.
Writing in the New York Sun recently, Ira Stoll observed that Joe Biden appears to have something of a fixation with Milton Friedman, the brilliant American economist and champion of capitalism who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1976.
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who used his knee to press George Floyd's neck to the ground until he died in agony, belongs to the race of the indecent.
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli threw in the towel last week. The married couple, a Hollywood actress and a fashion designer, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal.
Sometime this summer, Israel's new government — a broad left-right unity coalition — may move ahead with plans to formally annex about 30 percent of the West Bank.
California's colorblind mandate was a noble landmark, but lawmakers want to tear it down.
Joe Biden isn't likely to ask my advice on whom to pick as his running mate, since I'm neither a Democrat nor a likely Biden voter. (Nor am I a Republican or a Trump voter.)
What does Gen. Michael Flynn, the now-exonerated former White House national security adviser, have in common with Jimmy Carter, Jane Fonda, and Nancy Pelosi?
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is one of the most popular governors in America. That popularity, not surprisingly, is reflected in support for his handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
Representative Justin Amash of Michigan announced last week that he will seek the Libertarian Party nomination for president, and was instantly castigated as a spoiler working for Donald Trump's reelection.
Millions of Americans had to wait longer than they should have for their $1,200 coronavirus stimulus check to arrive in the mail, and the reason may have had something to do with the president's prodigious vanity.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un hasn't been seen in public in more than two weeks, which has set off speculation that he is gravely ill, or even dead.
