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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Mass Murder? Blame ‘Conservative Media Stars’
On Aug. 12, The New York Times published what The New York Times does best: a smear of conservatives in which they’re attached to a national travesty.
Why Trump’s Tough Trade Dealings With China Hinges on Venezuela
It’s imperative the president protect American interests in Venezuela.
Kamala Harris’ Hypocrisy on Guns
Kamala Harris weighs in on guns on her campaign website with the headline “Taking executive action if Republicans continue to cower to the NRA.”
Why Is the Presidential Field So Old?
Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: Bernie Sanders, 79; Joe Biden, 78; Donald Trump, 74; and Elizabeth Warren, 71.
Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding the Wicked War on ICE?
All the gun control zealots out in full force last week have apparently gone to the beach.
China’s High-Tech Tyranny
There are passages in the State Department’s latest reports on human rights and religious freedom in the People’s Republic of China that read as if they ought to be in some futuristic horror story — not in a federal agency’s factual explanation of how freedom is curtailed in the world’s most populous nation.
Why We Embrace Conspiracy Theories
This week, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell from an apparent hanging, the day after a court unsealed a cache of documents from a lawsuit against his alleged procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell.
How Important Is Today’s Racial Discrimination?
Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of blacks on poverty, racial discrimination, and slavery are complicit in the decay.
This Sheriff Was Sued for Cooperating With ICE. Now, He’s Vindicated.
What should we do with illegal aliens who break local criminal laws? Most people would agree that, once they’ve served their time, they should be removed from the country rather than sent back into the community where they can commit more crimes.
The Left Responds
As we reported yesterday, the Trump administration issued new rules defining what a public charge is under our immigration laws. As we also noted, this is not a new concept.
Sell an Organ
Have you volunteered to be an organ donor? I did. I just clicked the box on the government form that asks if, once I die, I’m willing to donate my organs to someone who needs them.
Epstein’s Death Reflects Our New Age of Conspiracy Theories
Anyone who’s watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they’re also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy.
American Fencer Takes Knee During Pan Am Games to Protest Trump, USA
Olympic fencing medalist Race Imboden pitched a childish tantrum and took a knee during the national anthem at Team USA’s medal ceremony at the Pan American Games in Peru.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Mistakes Were Made — Always in Jeffrey Epstein’s Favor
The Jeffrey Epstein case establishes beyond a doubt that if you’re a sexual predator, it pays to be a rich and connected sexual predator.
Meanwhile, This Is What LGBTQ Organizations Are Doing to Society
Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that preoccupies the country. Meanwhile, LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their work.
Sending an SOS to the Federal Reserve
To keep the economy from a further growth slowdown, the Fed must inject more dollar liquidity into the global economy — immediately.
Abusing the Impeachment Process
On three separate occasions, Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, has introduced a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. Each time, the House of Representatives has voted it down.
A Sad Tale of a Wealthy Millennial’s Moral Confusion
Don’t condemn all inequality as injustice, and don’t “spit in God’s face” by feeling guilty for gifts He has given you.
None Dare Call It ‘Conspiracy’
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, investigators discovered that the lone man assigned to guard the president, John Parker, had abandoned his post to watch the play from an adjacent box at Ford’s Theater. Worse, at intermission, Parker adjourned to a nearby saloon to have drinks with some friends. It was during the second act that John Wilkes Booth entered the president’s box and shot him. Maybe something as simple and explainable as that will be the conclusion of an investigation into the death of billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan federal prison.
Tackling Public Charges
The Trump administration announced new rules yesterday designed to protect U.S. taxpayers by ensuring that immigrants do not overly burden the social safety net.