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Yesterday a mass shooter opened fire in a classroom at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and 2 teachers. This comes just 10 days after a mass shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He killed 10 Blacks and injured 3. But here is why this shooting… Read more.
The first Monday in October marks the beginning of a new term for the Supreme Court. This tradition dates back to 1916. But the Court has never marked this occasion with public opinion of its impartiality as low as it is today. The Supreme Court’s approval rating is plummeting, its critics are more caustic, and… Read more.
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Political dysfunction and social unrest have had America marching towards another civil war for years. And I have been in the vanguard of those sounding alarms in commentaries like “Tribalism and Dysfunction in American Politics,” June 24, 2018, “Impeachment Vote Is as Much About Tribalism as Trumpism,” November 3, 2019, and “Republican and Democrats Began… Read more.
Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14. … By Sunday, hundreds of rescues had already been made in Houston, and many more were expected… Read more.
You can be forgiven the impression that America is experiencing an epidemic of violent confrontations between Black kids and White cops. Their latest confrontation, which went viral on Sunday, had White cops hurling profanities, and one of them even drawing his gun, just to disperse Black kids at an unruly pool party near Dallas, Texas.… Read more.
It never ceases to amuse me how doomsayers invariably point to clusters of natural disasters (like the one we’re experiencing this year) as signs either of the biblical end times or, more ominous, of the self-fulfilling prophecies of global-warming alarmists coming true. For the truth of the matter is that since time immemorial Mother Nature has… Read more.
