Category: Featured Blogs
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Lawmakers Basing Decisions on Narrative, Not Data
It is September. Many states and localities have been locked down for six whole months now, even in spite of data showing that the curve in certain locations has been flattened for weeks. Major cities have been burning nightly over supposed “systemic” racism for four months now, with law enforcement being assaulted, residents terrorized and…
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4 Reasons Distance Learning Makes Indoctrination Harder for Universities
It is that time of year in which youthful Americans nationwide head to campus for university learning. Notably, this fall is different from falls past. While many students are moving into residential housing, many others are commuting to campus or learning from home. These new circumstances, necessitated by tragic conditions, do make it more challenging…
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Biden Picks VP, Throws Lifeline to Trump Reelection Bid
On Tuesday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate. If there was a watch party at the White House in anticipation, President Donald Trump and his staffers should have been distributing party favors and popping the champagne upon hearing the good news. Then they should have…
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4 Unfashionable Truths about Police Shootings
Lately we hear from many within the media and the Democratic Party that the United States is an endemically and systemically racist country, and that law enforcement is among the greatest threats to black lives. This narrative has been carefully promulgated over the past several years, beginning in earnest with the fatal shooting of Michael…
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The Media Are Losing Their Own Immoral Competition
On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York announced on Twitter that for sale are “New York Tough” posters, personally commissioned by the governor himself, depicting the state’s response to the virus as being “Smart, United, Disciplined and Loving.” The scene includes state residents working together to flatten the curve by pulling a rope down…
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The Media Narrative Comes Full Circle
According to the media, the last several months have played out like this: President Donald Trump, alone, didn’t take the COVID-19 outbreak in America seriously enough at the outset. He downplayed the severity of the virus, forwarded conspiracy theories, and resisted the necessary action being advocated by no fewer than all of his Democratic counterparts.…
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The End Of America As We Know and Loved it.
In case you do not know, or you live under a rock, the world has literally gone crazy. Worldwide pandemics, riots in the streets, civilians, and uniformed officers killed. That is just the half of it. One thing is clear, America, the country I have given up years of my life overseas for, and I…
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The Dirty Little Secret of Abolishing Police
With the tragic death of George Floyd has come a renewed interest in ramming through punitive policy to kneecap law enforcement in high-crime communities. These policy prescriptions are rooted in raw emotion rather than facts, and their support has been amassed through fear rather than sensibility. What initially began as a unified condemnation of police…
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Is There Enough Racism to Meet Demand?
There is a demand for racism in America. The reason for this demand is not because America is a racist country, or because American institutions or the American people, broadly, are racist. It exists because of those particular politicians and members of the media who seem to desire instances of racism which they can utilize…
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Parler Leading the Way out of Twitters Digital Inquisition
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Parler, the People driven social platform, today condemned Twitter’s labeling of two tweets by President Donald Trump as “misleading information.” The President’s tweets asserted that mail-in voting raised the risk of election fraud, a controversial topic that has legitimate support for his position. The plan to label and undermine the tweets of…