When I wrote the original version of this, I did not have a working political blog. So it got a lot more political than my usual lexicon entries.
“This song was played frequently on KVIL in Dallas back in 1980. Until today, I had feared that this song was lost. When i came across a recorded performance today I was elated! It is a wonderful song of patriotism that this country really needs! Please watch it and share it with your friends and help revive the song!”
“This 4th of July, when you watch the fireworks, will you think about the Declaration of Independence?
We should. After all, the holiday is meant to honor the Declaration. It, and the Constitution it led to, help keep us free.”
“Dennis Prager has traveled all over the world. But at the end of every trip, he returns home with a new appreciation for America. Why? Because no country is more open, more generous, and has done more for the cause of freedom than America has.”
“Black Lives Matter makes sense as a Preposition. As a movement? Not so much. Here's why:”
“Breaking it down is very simple to understand.”
“Political activists have started to take over newsrooms, forcing out people who hold “offensive” opinions.
Where is all the intolerance coming from?”
Stand up for what you think is right even if you stand alone. But don't force anyone to stand with you.
“A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about home ownership, corn, consenting relationships, and war.”
I didn't think it was possible. Me, the self-proclaimed political junkie. And I am burned out on politics.
“Our lovely and unbiased healthcare professionals are here to explain why your job and family are stupid and not a worthy reason to put lives at risk, but rubbing shoulders with 10,000 strangers to shake signs and burn cars is!”
“If you’ve been to New York, you’ve probably visited Central Park. But there’s a part of its story you won't see.
It’s a story that goes back to the 1820s, when that part of New York was largely open countryside. Soon it became home to about 1,600 people. Among them was a predominantly black community that bought up affordable plots to build homes, churches and a school. It became known as Seneca Village. And when Irish and German immigrants moved in, it became a rare example at the time of an integrated neighborhood.
Everything changed on July 21, 1853. New York took control of the land to create what would become the first major landscaped park in the US -- they called it “The Central Park.”
In the Vox series Missing Chapter, Vox Senior Producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported and often overlooked moments from the past to give context to the present. Join her as she covers the histories that are often left out of our textbooks. Our first season tackles stories of racial injustice, political conflicts, even the hidden history of US medical experimentation.”
“Protestors who have formed the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ) in Seattle have released a series of demands, which include, among other things, free housing, college and socialized medicine.”
“In the years following the Civil War, Booker T. Washington devoted his life to helping blacks transition out of slavery and into freedom. While his ideas were never fully embraced in his time, today, more than a century later, they remain strikingly relevant. Derryck Green from Project 21 explains.”
“…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Pinned to top until after the riots end.“His famous line that a "riot is the language of the unheard" is often taken out of context.”
Moving a discussion from another site.
Pinned to the top while the discussion is lively.“The 2020 graduating class faces challenges unlike any class before it. Uncertainty looms at every turn: job prospects, social interactions, and many other aspects of “normal life” once taken for granted. So what lessons can be learned from this unparalleled situation? Dennis Prager offers three.”
“A citizen and the government have a friendly chat about policing, taxes, CDC testing, and marijuana.”
Something very screwy is going on. There are at least eight agendas here.
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The Democrats make Trump look good. I may never forgive them for that.
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Students Demand Pitt Eliminate Free Speech Protections
“Student group coalition calls for firing of professors it deems "racist"”
Post-Pandemic Americans May Be Done With Taking Orders
“Governments overplayed their hands with mandates that they are losing the ability to enforce.”
How dare they remove the Emancipation Memorial?
“Taking down a statue paid for by freed slaves – this is the worst thing the woke hysterics have done.”
Fauci omits context, feeds alarm with warning of 100,000 coronavirus infections a day
“Estimates by other U.S. public health authorities and academic researchers indicate we may have already far surpassed 100,000 new infections per day, the vast majority of them mild and/or asymptomatic.”
Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police
“African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments.”
Georgia Is Doing Fine, Thank You
“The first-to-reopen state maintains a Covid-19 death rate well below those of northeastern states—though you’d never know it from the media coverage.”
Diamond and Silk: White liberals talk systemic racism, yet they 'put the systems in place'
“'What’s actually happening is black people are being used as pawns for a white liberal agenda that’s being used and disguised as Black Lives Matter,' said Rochelle Richardson, who goes by the screen name 'Silk.'”
COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S., according to the CDC
“The percentage of coronavirus deaths in the country has been declining for ten straight weeks.”
Joe Biden and OPEC threatening US oil independence
“Biden wants to ban U.S. fracking, which was the key to achieving energy independence.”
Above the Law: The Data Are In on Police, Killing, and Race
“Police officers kill about 1,700 Americans every year. In other words, police killings have made up about one out of every twelve violent deaths of Americans between 2010 and 2018. That’s including American military deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere during that window. Indeed, more Americans died at the hands of police officers during that period (about 14,400) than died while on active military duty (about 9,400).”
Secretive police unit gathers information on Maine citizens, commissioner tells lawmakers
“Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck says the so-called fusion center gathers intelligence on citizens involved in legal activities, including protest organizers, but ‘we’re not spying on people.’”
The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back a Half-Century
“The damage the left is doing to so many blacks—to their moral compass, to their happiness and to their relations with their white fellow citizens—is not in the realm of “may do.” It is done.”
