VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: American Paralysis And Decline OPINION VICTOR DAVIS HANSONCONTRIBUTOR February 29, 20247:01 PM ET “We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C –A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless. But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration — and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy — made it impossible
Read more ... →Archive for the Political Correctness Category
The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia. Over the past 60 years, the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society. The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point
Read more ... →EXCLUSIVE: The Left’s ELECTION INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Discovered and Defined Inbox By Guest Contributor May. 3, 2024 This post was originally reported at JoeHoft.com – we are republishing it here with permission. There is a battle taking place in America today. It’s the Left’s Election Industrial Complex versus fair and transparent US elections. While conservatives argue over whether we should vote early or on Election Day, the Election Industrial Complex is adding, deleting, and managing entities that are clandestinely operating behind US elections. A document produced by Higher Ground Labs entitled the – 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report – outlines what we have labeled the Election Industrial
Read more ... →Exclusive — ‘Defeat MAGA’: Meet the Radical Left Network that Hijacked Democrats in Effort to Stop Trump at All Costs 1,747 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images MATTHEW BOYLE 26 Jan 2024Washington, DC9,953 33:59 A well-coordinated, well-funded, and high-powered network of leftist organizations, led by a group whose efforts 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton promoted, is behind the push to remove former President Donald Trump, the 2024 frontrunner for president from any party, from the ballot, Breitbart News has learned. But it’s much broader than that: For years, this network of leftists grew from a powerful vast left-wing conspiracy
Read more ... →MUST SEE: Paul Harvey’s Famous 1965 “Warning to America” Essay – Put to Life by Ultra MAGA Party By Jim Hoft Dec. 2, 2023 Joe Biden’s famous Moloch speech attacking the American people from Philly. Paul Harvey was one of the great radio personalities of 20th century America. Paul was a Christian man. He was a staunch American patriot and Godly man. His popular “Rest of the Story” segment was broadcast into millions of American homes and businesses. Paul Harvey was also a devout Christian who was deeply concerned that the United States was abandoning God and morality at her own peril. In 1965 Paul
Read more ... →THOMAS KLINGENSTEIN (SPONSORED) 17 Aug 2023511 The following content is sponsored by author, playwright, and Chair of the Claremont Institute Thomas Klingenstein. While nobody denies that racist people exist all over the world, including in the U.S., racism in America today is, to a very significant degree, a manufactured problem, crafted by woke Leftists in order to overthrow the American way of life. The Left claims there exists an intolerable, all-pervasive system of white oppression and if you disagree, they will destroy you and may even inflict violence. The woke tell us that racism has gotten worse, but this is drivel. As I explain
Read more ... →Once again we are republishing this analysis by John L Kachelman, Jr. We first published this piece back in October 2020 before the presidential election. 2020 the “Perfect Storm” facing our Republic— All three branches of our Government are in peril Historical Discovery…An election in 1917 forecast the election in 2020! Here are the elements from 103 years ago! Years of preparatory work were spent in misleading and mis-directional propaganda Contested voting results marred the election’s finality and ultimately its dismissal Claims that the poor were going to be disenfranchised of their votes The scheduled voting was extended by
Read more ... →May 26, 2023 By Jeffrey Folks Twenty years ago, I interviewed a young woman for an entry-level position at the prestigious university where I taught. I had read the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis, with considerable reservations, and was eager to ask about her scholarly interests. She stated that she followed the approach called “critical theory” and that her interest was limited to whatever was abnormal, perverse, and antagonistic. She despised everything that was conventional, decent, or good. As a person who had devoted his entire life to promoting what was conventional, decent, and good, I was taken aback. Not that I was entirely surprised. Critical theory, with
Read more ... →699 JACOB BLISS 25 Mar 2023Washington, DC296 2:53 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy picked apart woke America’s idea of “systematic racial inequity” in a video uploaded to Instagram, claiming the government’s policies and practices “badly” failed black Americans. Ramaswamy said that the “central premise” of the woke movement in America is the claim that there is a “systematic racial inequity” between Americans, giving the example of white and black Americans. However, he claimed that the results show different outcomes when you look at how the data was taken. The Republican presidential candidate claimed that the government’s policies and practices “badly” failed black Americans when looking
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The coup we never knew Victor Davis Hanson – Tribune Content Agency January 7, 2023 – 9:01 pm Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that
Read more ... →Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present James H. Sweet | Aug 17, 2022 Twenty years ago, in these pages, Lynn Hunt argued “against presentism.” She lamented historians’ declining interest in topics prior to the 20th century, as well as our increasing tendency to interpret the past through the lens of the present. Hunt warned that this rising presentism threatened to “put us out of business as historians.” If history was little more than “short-term . . . identity politics defined by present concerns,” wouldn’t students be better served by taking degrees in sociology, political science, or ethnic studies instead?
Read more ... →BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON 12:01 AM ON JANUARY 05, 2023 AP Photo/Susan Walsh What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do
Read more ... →‘Real And Pressing Issues’: Black Conservative Group Releases Blueprint To Reform America BRONSON WINSLOW CONTRIBUTOR November 03, 2022 Project 21, a conservative black leadership network, released a “blueprint” Monday identifying eight key areas that need reform due to the Biden administration’s policies they believe have harmed black Americans. The group, a project of the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), released their “Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America,” READ at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, and identified criminal justice, Critical Race Theory (CRT), education, election integrity, employment and many other key areas they believe need reform.
Read more ... →‘Gaslighting’ 17 Drew Angerer / Getty JOEL B. POLLAK 28 Nov 202253 2:27 The Merriam-Webster dictionary has declared “gaslighting” to be the word of the year for 2022, as searches for the term skyrocketed — though there was no specific incident or usage of the word to spark the sudden interest. The term refers to the practice of intentionally deceiving someone by telling them that the state of the world is not what they perceive it to be. The term is used often in online political debates to accuse opponents of lying. But “gaslighting” goes beyond lying. To carry out
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Anton Novoderezhkin/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images/TNS May 12, 202210:25 AM ET Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power. After
Read more ... →COMMENTARY.By Gonzalo SchwarzJanuary 12, 2022AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster The term “culture war” has been a staple of American politics and public debates for decades, the latest iterations framed by the likes of abortion, marriage equality, and climate change. However, such issues don’t motivate voters as much as people on the extremes tend to believe. You saw it in Virginia’s recent election, with exit polls showing that 34% of voters say the economy/jobs is the most important issue facing the state. Education is the second-most important issue, and with it the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that closed schools — contrary to the wishes of
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) VICTOR DAVIS HANSONCONTRIBUTORApril 01, 20219:29 AM ETFONT SIZE: There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. 1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual
Read more ... →Donald Trump spoke at a “Save America” rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6 before Congress was set to confirm the election results. “We will never concede,” he said. Read the transcript of his speech remarks here. Donald Trump: (02:44)The media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I, when I turned on today, I looked, and I saw thousands of people here, but you don’t see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don’t want to show that. We have hundreds of thousands of people here, and I just want them to be recognized by
Read more ... →Americans who supported President Trump’s policies on trade, energy and the environment, immigration, foreign policy, deregulation, education, and free speech are in a fight for their lives.By Edward Ring January 10, 2021 On January 8, in the wake of the protests two days earlier at the U.S. Capitol that left five dead and derailed congressional debate over election fraud, Twitter and Facebook permanently banned President Trump from their platforms. Jack Dorsey, the scruffy billionaire CEO of Twitter, apparently banned Trump while vacationing in French Polynesia. This action by Twitter and Facebook, while shocking, should not surprise anyone. This is the latest salvo
Read more ... →January 4, 2021 By Deborah C. Tyler On the morning of November 3, I texted a friend about how proud I was of America. After all the vilification, Trump would win because the system works. The last thing I said to my son-in-law as I went to bed that night was, “Don’t worry. They can’t overcome a nine-point lead in Pennsylvania. Trump is going to win.” How could I have been so blind? Because I had faith in the law. As the most destructive interstate crime campaign in American history was playing out, videos emerged (Philadelphia, Detroit, Gary) of authorized poll-watchers being barred from entering election headquarters by latter-day
Read more ... →January 1, 2021 By Matthew J. Chellis There is ample evidence for those who care to see it, that the Presidential election was stolen. Peter Navarro’s report, entitled “The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities,” is also a must read. My question is: Why is the fraud always on one side? Why do Democrats cheat? The population has never been more polarized. Conservatives and regressives (they are not progressive and they are not liberal) no longer worship the same God, share the same values, honor the same heroes and history, or agree on the meaning of human existence. We also no
Read more ... →December 29, 2020 By Rabbi Aryeh Spero This past year has been exceedingly difficult for many whose relatives and acquaintances unexpectedly passed away or became ill due to the worldwide COVID-19 plague. Many “progressive” governors have in strongarm fashion exploited the situation for political power purposes, callously subduing our population. We watched as our cities and innocent people were violently attacked by Antifa and BLM, all the while being excused, justified, and even exalted by the media and opinion shapers. American history, indeed Americanism itself, was maligned, the statues of our founding heroes toppled. It became fashionable to call for defunding
Read more ... →December 24, 2020 By William DiPuccio Undergirding the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is a set of philosophical principles that are under assault by Progressives. These founding principles, derived mostly from the Federalist Papers, provide the lens through which we read and understand the Constitution. Without this lens, the meaning of the Constitution and American law becomes putty in the hands of every special interest group. Progressivism seeks to replace the founding principles with a new set of doctrines based on the tenets of social justice — a system which elevate the rights of “protected classes” (non-whites, LGBTQ, women, etc.) by
Read more ... →The following text has been copied and pasted from a friend’s post. Couldn’t have said it better! How to pick a side in the next civil war… I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person, but I was born “white” into a two-parent household which now labels me as “Privileged”, racist and responsible for slavery. I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today’s standards, makes me a fascist because I plan & budget. But I now find out that I am not here because I earned it, but because I was “advantaged”. I am
Read more ... →byMELISSA MACKENZIEDecember 4, 2020, 12:00 AMPromotional still from “The Wizard of Oz”🔊 Listen to this article The current crisis did not begin with Trump, contrary to the vain repetitions of the Never Trump crowd. The Left’s woes didn’t begin with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The political turmoil on both the left and right started a couple election cycles back with Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer. What began with government good intentions and notions of correcting injustice caused one short-term fiscal calamity and continues as a rolling cultural catastrophe. Twenty-five years ago, the premise was this: minorities were being discriminated against when trying
Read more ... →December 6, 2020 By Steve Bigler Lately I’ve been thinking about defining characteristics of good and evil. I am a person of faith, so initially I might have been tempted to say simply that good adheres to the commandments of God, or at least to the tenets of a religion. But that’s too easy. First of all, not everyone believes in God. In addition, concepts of God vary widely. And finally, I’m not sure all religions are uniformly good! So I pondered, “What if I were not a person of faith? What if I didn’t belong to any religion at all? Surely, I’d still recognize that some principles
Read more ... →Only freedom of speech can preserve republican self-government, and only it can cool the fanatical hatreds and false theories underlying identity politics. By Arthur MilikhDECEMBER 3, 2020 Much evidence suggests that freedom of speech may be banned in the coming years under the guise of regulating “hate speech.” Many on the left who demand and welcome this development do not foresee the broad consequences of their actions. Nor do many defenders of free speech sufficiently examine the left’s reasons for banning it. Just in the past few years, U.S. senators proposed to outlaw words they deem offensive; New York City attempted to fine residents $250,000 if
Read more ... →December 4, 2020 By Eric Utter If you believe it’s okay to kill your own baby in your womb but that hunting should be banned, you just might be a Democrat. If you think invasive species are an existential threat to the United States but illegal aliens always enrich us with their presence, you just might be a Democrat. If you think smoking cigarettes should be banned but smoking marijuana should be legalized, you just might be a Democrat. If you think the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” should be kept off the airwaves yet happily sing along to Cardi B’s “WAP” (Wet
Read more ... →The Difficult Way Forward By Tom Mayer It used to be said that America was fortunate in that its politics were played between the 40-yard lines: that we agreed on the most important things and argued over the details within a small range of policies. That hasn’t been true for many years, the playing field being stretched as far as it can go. But the problem now is not that the playing field has expanded, the game itself has changed. The object of the game as well as the rules, are practiced very differently by the two sides. Republicans are still
Read more ... →John Stossel: With current system, ‘Taxpayers lose. Students lose. The winners are bloated colleges’ By John StosselPublished November 10, 2020 Yale University has fancy dining halls. They pay no property tax. Local restaurants struggle to compete, but their tax burden makes that hard. “We basically pay one-third of our rent in taxes!” complains Matt West, manager of Koon Thai Restaurant. “Yale is a money-making machine.”Advertisement – story continues below It is. Many colleges are. Yale has a $31 billion endowment. Harvard’s is $40 billion. My alma mater, Princeton, has $26 billion. Yet, these schools also get government handouts and tax breaks. How government
Read more ... →October 2, 2020 By K.E. Campbell One doesn’t have to wade far into the social media cesspool to see posts labeling the president “fascist.” It’s ubiquitous too for anyone critical of BLM-Antifa to be labeled similarly. Do the online posters and name-callers know of which they speak (or type or text or tweet)? Or do they simply mean something or someone they don’t like? If the latter, it is not uncommon. A recent piece at Jacobin, “a leading voice of the American left,” included this: There are countless examples of journalists and contemporary historians taking a strong and understandable dislike to political figures in the present day,
Read more ... →Now You See It: Democrats Want to End Elections Oct 1, 2020 RUSH: This is Brad in Owensboro, Kentucky. It’s great to have you, sir. I’m glad you waited. Hello. CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the Bluegrass State. RUSH: Great to have you with us. CALLER: I always wanted to talk to you. I was telling Mr. Snerdley, I think we finally reached the point that you have always said we would get to where the Democrats are done with elections. They don’t care anymore. They don’t think we’re smart enough to self-govern, and so they’re gonna try and steal
Read more ... →By I&I Editorial Board Sep. 6 2020 Rather than improve race relations, the Black Lives Matter movement has set them back a half-century. Nothing good will come of the bullying, violence and baseless accusations that are filling the news cycle. Just before President Donald Trump was to start his fourth year in the White House, the state of race relations, according to Gallup, had increased 14 percentage points since he took office. It was an achievement “any president after three years would want to claim, particularly President Obama,” said a CBS reporter. One would have thought that race relations would have
Read more ... →Move over, “White Fragility”: Shelby Steele’s “White Guilt” diagnoses our racial woes much more accurately.by BRADFORD H. B.August 18, 2020, 12:00 AM Protesters in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2020 (bgrocker/Shutterstock.com) For many American Spectator readers, an especially troubling aspect of the recent racial eruptions likely has been the elevation of books like Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist, and Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want To Talk About Race into the national consciousness. Following the protests and riots in May and Jund, each of these previously published titles zoomed up Amazon’s bestsellers list, entrenching them further, no doubt, in college humanities syllabi across the
Read more ... →John Stossel Black Lives Matter protests led many people to want to do something useful to reduce racial injustice. Racial justice groups are being flooded with money. Big companies made multimillion-dollar donations. “Bad idea,” says Black radio host Larry Elder in my new video. “It is condescending… and not helpful. I urge white people to chill. Stop helping us, because you’re making things worse!” Making things worse, he says, because it supports the activists’ claim that “Blacks are victims of racism. (But) if racism were in America’s DNA, Obama never could have got elected. Racism has never been more insignificant
Read more ... →Ron Hart The three-month trial membership in “wokeness” is up, and America does not want to subscribe. With the monomaniacal desire to get rid of Trump, the leftist millennial “woke” crowd has overplayed its manufactured grievances. Some have become so “woke,” they can’t sleep. It turns out, most Americans do not like these whiny incoherent layabouts who are bent on making us bow to their whimsy. The media recently realized this and no longer show the ongoing riots, destruction and lawlessness of anarchists across the country in cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland. When visuals do not help their
Read more ... →WALTER WILLIAMS | Friday, July 31, 2020 7:00 p.m.APA protester carries an American flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building in Minneapolis May 28. I doubt whether any American would defend the police treatment of George Floyd that led to his death. But many Americans are supporting some of the responses to Floyd’s death — rioting, looting, wanton property destruction, assaults on police and other kinds of mayhem by both whites and blacks. The pretense is that police conduct stands as the root of Black problems. According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, there were 3,446 Black people lynched at
Read more ... →July 28, 2020 By Don Rosenberg Enthusiasm and passion have been a hallmark of political action over all of history. Stating something strongly and with conviction gets attention and almost forces people to listen. But the last three years have seen political passion turn into an explosion of hatred and anger like never before. Why is this? Psychologists say that anger arises when we have an unmet demand. Some angry reactions are reasonable, such as objecting to bad service at an expensive restaurant, or protesting against an injustice, but others are irrational, such as shooting a gun at someone who
Read more ... →July 6, 2020 By John Eidson “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” So tweeted virtue-signaling Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette, whose three-sentence message had one purpose: to help the political party she supports mainstream the absurd idea that white people should be ashamed of their skin color and, by extension, ashamed of their predominately white country. Hollywood stars are not the only ones pushing white privilege ideology. Marxist teachers and professors in our universities and public schools have systematically burdened millions of young white minds with guilt over the accident of
Read more ... →by Gary Bauer | July 04, 2020 06:00 AM What would you do if you wanted to destroy America? The first thing you would do is take control of the education system and teach children that they are living in an evil country. Then you would undermine the police, the military, and law enforcement. You’d use every opportunity you can to divide people by race, religion, and class. You would stoke feelings of grievance regardless of how much progress was being made to promote racial reconciliation and equal opportunity. You would attack churches, too. You’d teach children that there is no God,
Read more ... →BY WALTER WILLIAMS, Special to The Daily Home Jun 10, 2020 While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities. Some of the most dangerous big cities are St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and Philadelphia. The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been
Read more ... →By Walter E. Williams – April 15, 2020 America’s colleges are rife with corruption. The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let’s first let’s examine what might be the root of academic corruption, suggested by the title of a recent study, “Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship.” The study was done by Areo, an opinion and analysis digital magazine. By the way, Areo is short for Areopagitica, a speech delivered by John Milton in defense of free speech. Authors Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian say that something has gone
Read more ... →We shut down travel from Europe over fear of COVID-19, but have an open southern border. • If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him. • Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. • Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections are good. • It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. • Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old
Read more ... →LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What’s wrong with this party? Letter to the editor, Northwest Florida Daily News, 2/22/2020 Posted at 7:57 AM Janette Gregg of Fort Walton Beach says one of the two primary political parties in the United States favors infanticide, servitude to the government and encouraging homeless people to bring rats and drugs to our streets. We have two main political parties in this country. The following is one of them. Can you identify it? It advocates: 1. High, onerous taxes on its citizens, while promising free “stuff” to gullible, naive people. 2. Open borders, which encourages human trafficking, drug
Read more ... →TRUMP: EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO NEW WORLD ORDER. . . . By James D Veltmeyer, MD The ongoing attacks by the political establishment on President Donald Trump which began even before he was elected are without parallel in history. The savagery, frenzy, and outright hysteria displayed by the President’s enemies within the Democrat Party, the media, and the various power centers of the globalist elites have no prior precedent. This President has been spied on, lied about, made the subject of phony foreign dossiers, insulted, ridiculed, scorned, mocked and threatened. We have witnessed Hollywood celebrities advocate for blowing up the White
Read more ... →Rush Limbaugh delivered commentary on U.S. foreign policy and the nation’s superpower status on the Wednesday broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program. RUSH: Folks, we have just in the last — ah, you could say two days, the last week, we have had demonstrated for us one of life’s most basic lessons. And I want to try to explain this. I gotta tell you, I was so frustrated watching television last night as the Iranians launched their little puddle jumper missiles. I’m watching, I don’t care what channel I turned to, not even gonna mention them. All the networks,
Read more ... →Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today’s students have needs that were unknown to their predecessors. Those needs include diversity and equity personnel, with massive budgets to accommodate. According to Minding the Campus, Penn State University’s Office of Vice Provost for Educational Equity employs 66 staff members. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of 93 full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts and coordinators. Amherst College, with a student body of 1,800 students employs
Read more ... →by E. DONALD ELLIOTT December 6, 2019, 12:12 AM “Gulliver bound down by the Democratic Lilliputians,” Judge Magazine, c. 1890–95 Our country could survive an impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We’d be wounded and I hope that calamity can be avoided, but we’d survive. The more momentous issue in the current impeachment kerfuffle is how and to what extent the administrative state can bind the president. A quiet revolution, so far bloodless, is underway to redefine “the rule of law” to give unelected officials in the administrative state control over the president. Confucius, the only philosopher I know who was also prime minister
Read more ... →Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said that racism in America is “foundational” and that people of color were under “mortal threat” from the “white supremacist in the White House.” Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that “systemic racism” will “be with us” no matter who is in the White House. Senator Cory Booker called for “attacking systemic racism” in the “racially biased” criminal justice system. Let’s follow up by examining Booker’s concern about a “racially biased” criminal justice system. To do that, we can turn to a recent article by Heather Mac Donald, who is a senior fellow at the
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