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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.”Breakdown
“The unwinding of law and order in our cities has happened with stunning speed.”Big Tech’s Escalating War on Free Speech
“What the leftist establishment denies—from the corporate boardrooms to mainstream media—is that truth cannot be permanently suppressed.”HMM: Postal Workers Endorse Biden As Dems Push For Postal Workers to Run 2020 Election
“The people who would handle mail-in ballots just announced their support for Biden.”Who is Kimberly Gardner, St. Louis prosecutor investigating gun-toting couple?
“Gardner, who was elected in 2016 on a platform of reforming the criminal justice system, was reportedly backed by liberal billionaire George Soros.”Georgia COVID-19 deaths hit 3-month low, as reopening belies predicted health catastrophe
“Cases have continued to increase while deaths have plummeted.”Beijing passes sweeping national security law for Hong Kong
“Law seen as most significant erosion to date of Hong Kong's British-style rule of law and autonomy”Minnesota State Rep: Antifa and Muslim Groups Plan to 'Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule'
“It would have sounded farfetched just weeks ago. It doesn’t anymore.”A Coup Against Our Institutions
“The systematic campaign to undermine an incoming presidential administration through politicized investigations is a true constitutional crisis.”‘Flattening The Curve’ Has Become A Massive Bait And Switch
“Everything 'flattening the curve' represented has been abandoned and now thousands have needlessly died, millions are out of work, and cities are burning.”Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage
“The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers and lose the country.”Lincoln’s New Assassins
“The fact that we have produced senseless mobs willing to tear down our monuments testifies to the fact that we, the living, need to do more to honor our nation’s living spirit, not merely take selfies before dead bronze.”Plagued Retail: My View from the Trenches
“We’ve lost half-dozen retailers — restaurants, clothing, massage… Tenants who in effect said, sue me, I’m taking a hike. And replacement shop tenants are just behind spotted owls on the endangered species list.”Pushing Back on Cancel Culture
“Expanding civil rights protections to speech could limit the abuses of wokeness.”Hong Kong’s Cartoonists Aren’t Giving Up on Dissent
“As the city braces for a new law that could stifle free speech, local artists are still spurring on the protest movement.”The Blood on New York's Hands
“It's time to admit our city and its leaders helped cause this catastrophe.”