Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
At City Journal, a wide ranging interview with black professor of economics, Glen Loury, a fact-driven contrarian in the mold of Thomas Sowell. Glen Loury is a professor of Economics at Brown Univ. — and since we are playing in a world of racial politics, let’s take note that he
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The USA Today fact checks as “True” that “Trump campaign shirts feature the imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol.” From the USA Today: The claim: Trump campaign shirts feature imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol Our ruling: True https://t.co/3eCiYdgQvK — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 12, 2020 From Broadway, circa 1972: The Claim:
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A Contra Costa couple is being prosecuted by a George Soros funded DA for the “hate crime” of painting over a “BLM Mural.” They need to sue the DA and the city for libel and violating their right to freedom of speech. Several days ago, a couple in California, upset
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A black man ran over a white BLM protester in Seattle who was part of a protest blocking the highway at night. ABC’s hot-take on the incident is about as disingenuous as it can get. If we define “fake news” as not just false, but to include intentionally omitting salient
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Any hope that conservatives had, that a moderately right-leaning Court would take the Supreme Court out of politics back into its proper sphere of deciding cases in respect of the original intent of our Founders and past legislators, is gone. We have John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch to hold accountable
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In the history of bad ideas, the latest progressive brainstorm — defund the police — is among the most idiotic of them all. Abolishing police and prisons were ideas first floated in our ivory towers. They have now gone mainstream. For instance, according to Vox: Amid the anti-police brutality protests
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The House is considering three articles of Impeachment. The Constitution is at issue in questions of Obstruction of Justice, Contempt of Congress and the form of the Senate Trial. Comity and Corruption are at issue as to the Bidens and Abuse of Power. And is this is an unlawful attempted
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“White Supremacy” is a progressive canard to keep the race card viable in the absence of actual racism. It paints all whites as inherently racist and promotes the worst of tribalism as a progressive political tool. The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to “reframe” American history to mark the
Continue readingJustice is supposed to be blind. That is not the case in America today and President Trump is partly to blame. [Update: This today from the Daily Caller: President Donald Trump chose to have the indictments of 12 Russian hackers announced before his Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Continue readingJudge Robert Yates, aka Brutus, warned of the problems of a Supreme Court acting without checks and balances in 1787, in the Anti-Federalist Papers. Of all the issues facing us today, the one of overriding importance is who will replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. It is a lit
Continue readingThe title of this post is a quote from a 1787 letter written by Thomas Jefferson. It is the same letter wherein he spoke of the necessity of watering the tree of liberty with “the blood of patriots & tyrants,” that being the tree’s “natural manure.” The tombstone in the picture to the
Continue readingSome time ago, a Political Science professor, Bruce Gilley, wrote an article, The Case For Colonialism. It was published by Third World Quarterly after a “double-blind peer review.” The article is a well-researched critique of modern historical revisionism and hard left academic bias as concerns colonialism. One bon-mot: It is hard to overstate
Continue readingA lost wolf is a wherewolf The Picture. Time magazine publishes a BS photo of a young girl supposedly being separated from her mother at the border. Now comes the minor correction. On Friday, Time published a correction saying: “The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl
Continue readingIf you disagree with me, that means that you are evil incarnate, demonic and deplorable, and that you need to be punished, killed figuratively in the public square if not literally. No, that is not my personal belief. But I think it is certainly what many on the left side
Continue readingThe Masterpiece Cakeshop decision is a small speed bump in the progressive’s war on religion, as well as a roadmap for the future. The progressive attempt to use “gay rights” as a cudgel to destroy the Judeo-Christian religions in this country hit a very small speed bump today with
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