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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Armageddon Postponed
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un appears to have blinked and President Trump can claim a foreign policy victory and justification for his strategy.
When Liberals Club People, It’s With Love in Their Hearts
Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims “fascists,” they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Prevent Korean War II With a Regime-Change Strategy for Pyongyang
Six weeks ago, on the Fourth of July, North Korea for the first time tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
North Korea 2017, Cuba 1962
There have been a number of articles and commentaries recently comparing the North Korean situation today with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Initiated Under Obama, a Plan for Cleaning Voter Rolls Is Now ‘Radical’
The Supreme Court should reverse the Sixth Circuit and let states do the job they are tasked with doing.
Google Women
Why aren’t there more women criminals?! Men in jail outnumber women by a ratio of 14-to-1. We male stutterers outnumber women, too.
The Group That Got Ignored in Charlottesville
The “alt-right” is evil. White supremacism is evil. Neo-Nazism is evil.
Where Is the Corporate Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?
Liberal business executives are leaping from Trump’s manufacturing advisory council. Good riddance.
Congress Can Fix Unfair System of Tax Incentives
It’s no secret President Trump is working to create thousands more American energy jobs, reduce regulations on energy producers and restore parity to the tax code.
The Greatest Football Coach
If you are going to be a student athlete, the coach said, there are only two things you can do: Be a student and an athlete.
Trump Is Right: Bigotry, Violence ‘on Many Sides’
British writer and theologian G.K. Chesterton observed, “It is hatred that unites people — while love is always individual.”
Trump-Backed Immigration Bill Has Many Critics, but Voters Like It
Some Democrats and their advocates in the press have been quick to denounce the RAISE Act, the new immigration reform bill proposed by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue and endorsed by President Trump.
Women and Men Are Equal
Google fired software engineer James Damore for writing a 10-page memo critical of the company’s diversity policy.
The Press Is Not Trusted or Popular
CNN delighted in reporting the results of a recent poll question that asked: “How much do you trust the things you hear in official communications from the White House? Do you trust almost all, most of it, just some of it, or nothing at all?”
Political Victories Can’t Justify Alt-Right Presence in Conservative Movement
Last year around this time (and the year before that), I was arguing with some of my fellow conservatives about the insanity of finding any common cause whatsoever with the so-called alt-right.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Racial Strife: Finding the Antidote to the Enemy Within
If you’ve ever watched the movie “Independence Day,” or one of the many other films that have been made over the years about aliens attacking the world, you know there’s one consistent theme with all of them: There is a common enemy that seeks to annihilate mankind, and this common threat brings together people of every race, background, and even religion to fight the enemy.
Mothball the Confederate Monuments
Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.
Trump Addresses the Nation
Shortly after noon yesterday, President Trump addressed the nation from the White House. His remarks, which largely echoed his comments from this weekend, were a powerful condemnation of bigotry and racism. He notably added a condemnation of specific groups, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Tragedy in Charlottesville
In the South during the Jim Crow era, the “one-drop rule,” codified into law, asserted that if a person had just one drop of African-American blood, they were considered “black.” I wonder what we’d learn if we gave former KKK leader David Duke and the “white nationalists” who caused havoc in Charlottesville last Saturday a DNA test to determine their racial makeup?