The Morning Report - 8/3/20

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and as the great political philosopher Eric Hoffer once said, "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." And so it goes with Black Lives Matter, or in reality Burn Loot Murder, though it was never a great cause but merely wearing the gutted skin suit of civil rights, if even that.

A rather alarming situation is developing in Louisville, Kentucky, in which local businesses are allegedly being issued demands from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and told that if they don't meet the demands, their business might be "f*cked with."

The demands are onerous, invasive, and ludicrous. They include everything from hiring quotas to training mandates to displaying a letter supporting reparations for black people to -- perhaps most outrageous of all -- paying a "recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to a local Black nonprofit or organization..."

How do you say "jizzya" in Jive? While far too many corporations and businesses from Wall Street to Main Street USA are taking a knee and kissing the fetid rectal orifices of these terrorists - either because they have been brainwashed since kindergarten to believe the blood libel of America as irredeemably racist and illegitimate, or because they don't want to have their windows smashed, rhetorically or otherwise - some people are responding with a resounding "get fucked."

Fernando Martinez, a partner of the Ole Restaurant Group, was one of dozens of business owners in the downtown Louisville district who recently received a letter from protesters laying out demands that aim to improve diversity in the area, which is known for its locally-owned shops and restaurants.

Martinez has publicly denounced the demands on Facebook, calling them "mafia tactics" used to intimidate business owners. And on Thursday, a small group of protesters confronted him outside his newest restaurant, La Bodeguita de Mima, on East Market Street.

"There comes a time in life that you have to make a stand and you have to really prove your convictions and what you believe in," Martinez wrote in his Facebook post. "...All good people need to denounce this. How can you justified (sic) injustice with more injustice?"...

Poor Mr. Martinez. He just doesn't understand that what's being inflicted on him is not injustice. He needs to understand the leftist mindset that dictates our speech is violence but their violence is speech! (sarc) As an aside, it's rather ironic that people who fled the terrorism and misery of Castro's Cuba have a potential Democrat vice presidential nominee - Karen Bass - who, as even a Democrat campaign consultant put it, "makes Bernie Sanders look like Ronald Reagan."

In a sane, rational world, people would understand that there is a difference between the words and literal meaning of "black lives matter" and the organization "Black Lives Matter." The fact that you can be fired from your job, driven from the public square or perhaps physically assaulted for even uttering the words "all lives matter" is terrorism straight up. Given the social and economic pressure being exerted on average Americans by corporate America to conform or else, in theory the radicals are in the catbird seat and if they were patient enough are in the position to wield power without even firing a shot. But, Leftists are gonna Leftist so they pull shit like this. But that said, the history of the advancement of socialism in this country has always been to put the most radical, insane ideas into the public discourse even if they draw a loud, visceral reaction and condemnation. But in doing so, they lay down a marker for the future. Think gay marriage, transgender "rights" and perhaps even the normalization of pedophilia. We're already seeing the abolition of police departments and the decriminalization of crime while Mount Rushmore barely survived being dynamited.

Circling back, the manifesto of BLM as well as the public statements of its leaders/founders unequivocally show it has very little to do with righting alleged racial injustice and everything to do with fomenting a Marxist revolution to overthrow America and seize power. As I stated before, just like Antifa, Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization and a criminal enterprise. President Trump would be justified in officially designating them as such and bringing the full weight of the federal justice and intelligence systems down and squashing them like the filthy cockroaches they are.

As you may realize, doing so has its pitfalls, to say the least. The ear-splitting geschrei of being called a racist would be instantaneous and constant. But, once again, it would be just one more example of Trump controlling the narrative, putting the argument out there and forcing the Democrat-Media Complex on its heels. The other problem, as we know all to well, would be the loyalty of those in the Justice Department and Intel communities to carry out his directives. Insubordination ain't just a river in northern Virginia. And the reason I bring up the IC is because I would bet BLM as well as Antifa are being funded not only domestically but from overseas, and at the highest levels of some of our biggest international nation-state enemies.

Yet with risk comes reward, and there are some tremendous ones. First, BLM and Antifa are perhaps the largest and most well organized insurrectionist/terrorist organizations working to subvert the nation. But that movement is a multi-headed hydra and in going after them, the opportunity exists to take down or at least defang it. No doubt that would mean going after scores of individuals in government, the media and academia who in theory could be charged, or at the very least exposed (for whatever that is worth given the conditions we find ourselves in [surrounded]).

More crucially, it would seriously strike back at corporate America's and Big Tech's ability to suppress and oppress ordinary citizens who are not "down for the struggle," so to speak. Plus, the nearly $2 billion corporate America has donated to (willingly or not) to BLM could be open to asset forfeiture by the DoJ.

Whatever the problems, pitfalls or even the improbability given the state of our society of bringing this about, the fact remains that BLM, Antifa and its allied organizations and cadres are by definition terrorist, insurrectionist organizations. Anyone and everyone who backs them, whether openly or in secret, via monetary support or in other ways gives them succor, is also a terrorist.

At a very minimum, openly declaring them to be terrorists is a moral imperative.

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
• "It only gets worse from here."
  De Bolshevik's NYC: More Shootings at This Point in 2020 Than in All of 2019
  
• "The restaurant owner was allegedly told he 'better put the letter on the door so your business is not fucked with.'"
  Louisville, KY: Cuban Community Rallies in Support of Cuban Restaurant After BLM Issues "List of Demands"
  
• "According to a source familiar with Saturday's events, no officers were injured. Little force was used in shutting down the protest -- which illegally blocked streets and was intended to bring violence to Austin."
  Austin Police, Texas State Troopers Prevent Violence and Arrest Many
  
• Because the cocksucking tyrannical dolt of a mayor ordered them.
  DC Police Reveal Why They Arrested Teens Writing Pro-Life Messages In Chalk
  
• Talking out both sides of his colostomy bag.
  Where Does Joe Biden Actually Stand on Defunding the Police?
  
• Meist friedliches Verbrennen von Buchern...
  American Flag, Bibles Reportedly Burned In Portland Riots
  
• "For radical leftists like the ones rioting in Portland, it was never truly about addressing police brutality, but tearing down all the West holds dear."
  As They Turn To Burning Bibles, Portland Rioters Show Their True Colors
  
• "Shootings and homicides are surging in other Democrat-controlled cities as well."
  Portland July 2020 Shootings More than Double One Year Ago
  
• "Backing irrational and irresponsible calls -- some coming from criminals -- to 'defund the police' is having very predictable results."
  Minneapolis Police, Defunded by City Council, Advise Residents to Obey Criminals
  
• "For the year, 212 kids have been shot, 36 fatally."The Slaughter of the Innocents in Chicago Continues With 9-Year Old Murdered
  
• Palate cleanser.
  Mostly White BLM "Protesters" Blocking Highway Get Chewed Out by Black Man Trying to Work and Feed His Family
  
• "...the progressive councilmembers radically confuse 'civil disobedience' and 'First Amendment rights.' The First Amendment protects the right 'peaceably to assemble,' but that doesn't mean you can block traffic any time you want toPeople Do Not Have the Right to Riot
  
• "Radical calls to abolish law enforcement won't lead to anything good -- and most Americans seem to know it."
  Does Anyone Really Want to Defund the Police?
  
• "The Black Lives Matter Global Network touts itself as a civil rights movement. Its real priorities, however, seem to lie elsewhere."
  Black Lives Matter: A Political Campaign Disguised as a Civil Rights Movement
  
• "A new website aggregates opinion pieces, other writing, and podcasts discussing the possibility of a coming civil war in America from both the Right and the Left perspective."
  Rhetoric About a New Civil War Is on the Rise

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "We are being forced to wear a muzzle" and chanted that "masks make us slaves."
  Germans Turn Out by the Thousands For Anti-Lockdown Protests In Berlin
  
• "Deborah Birx is the worst. Wow, what horrible hands you're in."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Says She Has No Confidence In Trump's Chinese COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Birx Because "She Is His Appointee"
  
• The old battle-axe is stoned off her ass.
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi: "Cannabis... Is a Therapy That Has Proven Successful" for Chinese COVID-19
  
• "Frustrated, Fauci said that he wasn't going to 'opine on limiting anything' regarding government restrictions. 'You've opined on a lot of things, Dr. Fauci,' Jordan shot back."
  Fauci Dodges Rep. Jordan's Question About Limiting Protests, Sees No Inconsistency in Restrictions
  
• "Large church service with no social distancing, and free to return to D.C. without self-quarantining."
  Democrat Privilege: John Lewis Funeral Attendees Exempted From D.C. Quarantine Requirement
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Only Republicans can get the virus. Democrats are immune."
  Getting Chinese Coronavirus for Your Political Sins
  
• "Resistance to overbearing regulations is about more than just 'freedom.'"
  The Moral Case Against Mask Mandates and Other Chinese COVID Restrictions
  
• All well and good, but HCQ and a Z-pack is cheap, safe and ready now.
  Critically Ill Chinese COVID-19 Patients Make Quick Recovery with Treatment RLF-100
  
• As I stated above, another reason HCQ is demonized.
  Big Pharma Rakes in Billions from US Taxpayers for Chinese Cronavirus Vaccine
  
• "Our approach is analogous to the outdated policy of aggressively fighting small forest fires, which seems logical enough, but creates the fuel for larger and more devastating conflagrations in the future."
  The Chinese Coronavirus and Our War Against Nature
  
• "Try this social experiment on anyone who lived through the 1950s and 1960s, or try it on yourself if you are a Baby Boomer or older. You likely don't recall any disruption in your life nor any trauma-induced fear and panic. That is because there wasn't any disruption."
  Lost Common Sense: How America Lived Through the Asian Flu of 1957
  
• "What Saddam Hussein and the Democrats have in common."
  Pandemic and the Politics of Fear

  SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "All eyes on Durham as Spygate probe nears end."
  Ron Johnson: "Corruption at the Highest Levels" During Obama Admin Investigation of Trump's 2016 Campaign
  
• "Jeffries needs his mouth washed out with bleach."
  Hakeem Jeffries Lies for a Living
  
• "An inveterate teambuilder, Flynn's conviction for deeds over words drew critical buy-in from external partners. The result was a robust synergism that proved lethal to America's foes."
  The Michael Flynn I Knew In Iraq Was a Brilliant Patriot
  
• Sharyl Attkisson: "The Department of Justice continues to fight my computer intrusion case in court. They are spending your tax money to protect the guilty parties rather than hold them accountable."
  Attkisson v. Holder: The Government Spied on Me and Now is Hiding the Guilty Parties
  
• "The attorney general understands how the Democrats have misled the American people for the last four years."
  The Magnificent William Barr

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "Revelation comes after top [Steve] Bullock aide was fired for inappropriate social media posts."
  Montana Dem Shared Messages Disparaging Police, Women, Minorities

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• Rasmussen: "According to the poll, 50% of likely voters approve of Trump, with 39% strongly approving. Disapproval was at 48%, with 43% strongly disapproving."
  If This Poll Is Accurate Trump Will Be Reelected Easily
  
• Rasmussen again.
  Majority of Black and Other Minority Voters Approve of Trump, Topping Whites' Approval
  
• For what it's worth.
  Shock Poll has Trump Leading Biden Nationally and in Key Swing States
  
• "It's a fool's errand to enter the ring with someone who can't follow the rules or the truth." (project much, Lockhart? - jjs)
  Clinton Hack Joe Lockhart Advises Joe Biden: "Whatever You Do, Don't Debate Trump"
  
• The projection is strong with this one.
  Top Democrat Clyburn: Trump "Is Mussolini," "Doesn't Plan To Have Fair and Unfettered Elections"
  
• "If you had any doubt that the Democrats know they have a losing candidate at the head of their ticket, their conduct the past week is the tell."
  It's August: Rest, Fall Will Be Even Crazier
  
• "The uncertainty means it could be at least another week until Biden makes any official announcements."
  Biden Running Mate Announcement Pushed Another Week After Bass, Rice Rumors Fizzle
  
• "I was a young radical. Those young people that are out saying 'defund the police?' That was me."
  Dem Consultant: VP Hopeful Bass "Makes Bernie Sanders Look Like Ronald Reagan"
  
• "The pickings are slim in a campaign where the Dem VP nominee is the presumptive president due to Biden's clear mental infirmities."
  Biden Has No Good VP Choices in the Field Under Consideration
  
• "Leftists in both parties have lied about Donald Trump, accused Trump of saying things that Trump never said and doing things Trump never did."
  Orange Man Bad? Democrats Worse
  "[Malig-Nancy] Pelosi looks to bail out freshman who once attacked her leadership."
  
• Malig-Nancy Pelosi Funnels $14,000 to Bro-Fo Omar/Nur Campaign Amid Expensive Primary Fight
  
• "Look to the Obama administration for the source of most of the problems."
  The Unhinging of America
  
• "A blight on the national conscience." (not just his actions but he himself - jjs)
  What Obama Did at John Lewis' Funeral Was Unconscionable
  
• "We're being used like a punching bag, and we're tired of it."
  Florida's Largest Police Union Unanimously Endorses President Trump in Emergency Vote
  
• "Biden's mental acuity has been a frequent theme of discussion, primarily among conservatives -- though Democrats have also acknowledged potential problems, on occasion."
  Dan Bongino Warns "Biden's Cognitive Decline Is Rapidly Worsening"
  
• "The major domestic threat to the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election."
  The Universal Mail-In Voting Sham
  
• "America's been given a glimpse of what our country would look like if Hillary Clinton had been elected president."
  America, You've Really Had a Wonderful Life
  
• "Going beyond the Democrats' idea of good Republicans."
  Anti-Trump Republicans Show Dysfunctional Love for the GOP
  
• "Nobody's getting my money now."
  Die-Hard Trump Supporters Say They're Fed Up With GOP's Text Spam
  
• "Instead of lockdown, unemployment, and government checks, voters want their jobs back, booming economic growth, freedom, and prosperity. Not to mention safety and security under the rule of law. What is becoming clear across America is that voters can only get that by voting Republican."
  New Republican Governors and Mayors Coming to Blue States
  
• "There's a movement out there to elect me."
  Jesse Ventura Flirts with 2020 Independent Run for President
  
• "The roots of today's Democrat Party reach deep into the red soil of socialism and anchor the real and implied violence of extremism."
  Don't Be Surprised By Democrats' Radical Turn -- Fanaticism Is In Their DNA
  
• Roger Kimball: "This time, we've traveled to the very edge of the abyss."
  The Choice Before Us

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "'The Court's decision to let construction continue nevertheless I fear, may operate, in effect, as a final judgment,' said [Associate Justice] Breyer."
  SCOTUS Hands Trump a Victory; Says Border Wall Construction Can Continue with Defense Dept. Funds
  
• "Across party and racial lines, Trump's decision is hugely popular."
  Rasmussen Poll: 7-in-10 Voters Support Trump's Exclusion of Illegal Aliens in Congressional Apportionment
  
• "Since DACA's inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the program have been kicked off because they were found to be either criminals or gang members."
  Fourth Officer Dies After Crash Allegedly Caused by DACA Illegal Alien

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER

• Kelli Ward: "Twitter has suspended a Republican state party chair's account -- just in time for her state's August 4 primary."
  Election Interference: Twitter Just Censored a Doctor, Public Health Expert, and GOP Chairwoman
  
• "Shouldn't you have known by then?"
  Chris Wallace Presses Karen Bass On 2016 Castro Statement
  
• "The fight over Big Tech is an existential question about the power of mega-corporations to commoditize and control every feature of our being -- and the larger questions that poses about the nature of liberty."
  Big Tech Faces Scrutiny on the Hill
  
• "Google offered not to use Fitbit's health data to help it target ads in an attempt to address antitrust concerns from E.U. officials, however, the launch of a full-scale investigation implies that this is not sufficient."
  Google Faces EU Antitrust Probe over $2.1 Billion Fitbit Deal
  
• "We've hired Lin Wood to help me in this matter. And, I hope that puts to rest anything people might say that's defamatory."
  Doctor Banned from Social Media for Touting Hydroxychloroquine Hires Sandmann's Lawyer to Discourage Defamation
  
• "44% of Americans under age 30 believe a company is correct in firing an executive because he or she made a personal donation to Trump's reelection campaign."
  Nearly Half of Young Americans Say It's Okay To Fire People Who Support Trump
  
• "His short letter of resignation came Friday -- six months after he publicly condemned the company's promotion of climate denial stories, according to The Daily Beast."
  James Murdoch Resigns From News Corp Over "Disagreements" With Published "Editorial Content"
  
• "Marxist Journalism" is a redundancy.
  XiNN and The New York Times Support Chinese Communist-Funded "Marxist Journalism" School
  
• Christian Toto: "'Mostly Peaceful' means fire, Molotov cocktails... but don't tell the media that."
  John Oliver Lies About Portland Violence, Reporters Run to His Defense
  
• "Barack Obama, the writer, is stumbling again. Donald Trump called him out almost ten years ago."
  Why the Media Chose Not to Hear When Trump Called Obama a Literary Fraud

  ABORTION

• Come... again?
  Chairwoman of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona: "Policing" is a "Reproductive Justice" Issue

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Those included slave labor, forced sterilizations and forced abortions, according to Pompeo."
  Pompeo: China Engaging in the "Greatest Human Rights Violation of This Century to Date"
  
• "Regime officials, propaganda outlets seek to dodge China's role in [Chinese] coronavirus outbreak."
  Chinese Propaganda Campaign Blames Pandemic on US Army Facility Closed in 1969
  
• "New sanctions mark escalation in U.S. campaign to expose China's abuse of minorities."
  Trump Admin Sanctions Chinese Paramilitary Group Engaged in Mass Human-Rights Abuses
  
• "As the fleet's arrival suggests that China has a food supply problem, Ecuador finds itself deep in debt to the Asian giant without any of the prosperity that was promised."
  Ecuador on Alert After Armada of Chinese Fishing Boats Seen Off Galapagos Islands

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Heartbreaking.
  Eight Service Members Presumed Dead After Marine Training Accident Off California Coast
  
• "National security experts warn that TikTok, Huawei, and other Chinese tech companies are risks to the US."
  Trump On TikTok: "We're Banning Them From the United States"
  
• "Microsoft has expressed an interest in buying TikTok and ByteDance, TikTok's parent, and says they're willing to spin off the app to a trading partner. But those plans have been put on hold as the White House mulls what would be acceptable and what would be a threat."
  TikTok Says It's "Not Going Anywhere" After Trump's Threat to Ban It
  
• "By attempting too much, indeed attempting the impossible, we are still spending blood and treasure in West and Central Asia, 30 years after the invasion of Kuwait and almost nineteen after 9/11."
  Our Thirty Years' War

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "His death sentence has been overturned; his victims, however, have no chance to appeal."
  Federal Court Cheats Boston Marathon Jihadi Out of His 72 Virgins

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "The blaze grew by more than 13,000 acres in less than a day as it burned through dry brush and timber."
  Apple Fire in Southern California Explodes to More Than 32,000 Square Miles; Thousands Evacuated
  
• "Uncontrolled public debt is driving many states to inevitable default and economic chaos."
  Red States, Blue States, and Zombie States
  
• "He could also be prosecuted for 'crimes against humanity,' the notice warns."
  Report: L.A. Mayor Served Faux Eviction Notice By Activists Demanding He Cancel Rent
  
• "A conservative champion unjustly convicted and imprisoned with multiple serious comorbidities has now contracted [Chinese] COVID-19 -- as predicted."
  The Plot to Assassinate Former Rep. Steve Stockman Proceeding Apace

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Eurozone GDP dropped 12.1%. Germany's DW News: 'Pandemic's impact in April, May, and June was worse for the EU than the United States, which reported a 9.5% drop."
  2Q GDP Drop In Perspective: U.S. Outperformed EU and Eurozone

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "30 felony fraud-associated charges were filed in Hillsborough County."
  Florida Teen Arrested As Alleged "Mastermind" In Twitter Hack, Bitcoin Scam

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• "There is no reason why health costs should be secret. We expect price transparency at gas stations and when paying rent, but hospitals and insurers have tricked us into believing we can't have it for medical bills."
  Stop Hospitals From Keeping Their Prices Secret

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Public records suggest that the Nice Famous Corporation, which funneled $3 million to the Ivy League school, is closely tied to the Chinese government."
  Not-So-Ancient Chinese Secret? U-Penn Can't Explain Mystery Donation From Chinese Company
  
• "It's minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo, and the clock is ticking. Perhaps it's time for her to bank those royalties, cash those speaker-fee checks, and fade out of the public consciousness."
  Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
  
• "Whatever motivates the enemies of charter schools, you cannot describe it as anything but evil."
  A Joe Biden Presidency Would Be a Disaster for Our Schools

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year."
  SpaceX Capsule and NASA Crew Make First Splashdown in 45 Years
  
• Our intrepid science reporter sez "while not the first Juno image of the poles of Jupiter, this photo illustrates very well the evolution of the gas giant's deep atmosphere
  as you move from the equator to the pole."
  Jupiter's South Pole

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "I think he's a fantastic president, I think he's done a great job, and I think it's my right to support him and to show my support of him."
  Cancel Culture Backlash: Long Islanders Rally Behind Pizzeria Owner Attacked For Displaying Trump Flag
  
• Get woke, go broke. And get fucked.
  Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts
  
• "Black Lives Matter activism among the millionaire baseball owners and teams is driving fans away."
  Strike Three: Major League Baseball's Sordid Romance with Race-Baiting Politics
  
• "It's ridiculous to watch entire teams kneel during the National Anthem."
  Kneeling to BLM is Not the "Pride of the Yankees."
  
• "Is it sexist and misogynistic to point out that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a big mouth? Sure hope so."
  Donkey-Chompers AOC Calls Catholic Saint Who Administered to Lepers a "Colonizer"
  
• "Hawaiians love selfless Father Damien of Molokai and didn't appreciate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ridiculous claim that he was a colonizer and white supremacist."
  So where's Donkey-Chompers AOC's Apology for Attacking Hawaii's Beloved Leper Saint, Grossly Offending Hawaiians?
  
• "So crazy and outrageous."
  Catholic Bishop Fires Back at Donkey-Chompers AOC for Disparaging Catholic Saint Who Gave Life Serving People with Leprosy
  
• "But VMI plans to change traditions and put an emphasis on attracting a diverse faculty and student body."
  Virginia Military Institute Will Not Remove Confederate Monuments or Rename Buildings
  
• "If conversation with people that we disagree with becomes impossible, what is the way that we solve conflict? It's violence."
  With Bill Maher, Bari Weiss Condemns Cancel Culture As "Social Murder"
  
• "The Democrat Party long ago abandoned working-class blacks and whites in favor of identity politics, corporatism, and cultural leftism. It's time for the GOP to step up by returning to its roots."
  How To Keep Corporate Wokeness From Destroying America
  
• Christian Toto: "Showtime's The Comey Rule leads the digital onslaught to help Team Biden."
  The October Surprises Up Hollywood's Sleeve to Bounce Trump
  
• Rabbi Fischer: "Would it kill them to know some history?"
  The Sad Paradox of Farrakhan, His Admiration of Hitler, and White Celebrities' and Black Athletes' Admiration of Him
  
• "The bloody and terrible French Revolution featured attacks on religion, rewriting history, toppling statues, and abandoning tradition. Sound familiar?"
  4 French Revolution Trends That Have Started in the United States
  
• "As suggested by Ilya Somin of The Volokh Conspiracy, a 'Victims of Communism Day' is long overdue."
  A "Victims of Communism Day" Is Long Overdue
  
• "The year which elected Donald Trump, and pried Great Britain from the European Union, remains the ultimate expression of normal people and their desire for wholly normal politics."
  The Normal Is Not New
  
• "How can you tell if you have the soul of a fascist? If you are alive and breathing, you are in danger of it."
  Fascism 101 with Professors Vittorini and Solzhenitsyn

  HITHER & YON

• "Jonas Salk never patented his vaccine or earned any money from his discovery, preferring it to be distributed as widely as possible. When asked who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, Salk answered, 'Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?'"
  The Man Who Conquered Polio
  
• "Jim Rasenberger's biography of Samuel Colt, Revolver, has lots of interesting details about the colorful inventor of the six-shooter but unfairly faults Colt for sins against present-day leftist orthodoxy."
  The Story Of How Samuel Colt Made Men Equal
  
• "Over a lifetime of scholarship and public engagement, economist Thomas Sowell has illuminated controversial topics such as race, poverty, and culture."
  The Nonconformist
  
• "I was Herman's presidential campaign press secretary for part of the 2012 campaign. He was the definition of a 'happy warrior' who faced each day with a positive attitude and the kind of optimism we could all use right about now."
  Memories of My Former Boss, Herman Cain
  
• "Wars and their postmortem historical analyses are full of what-ifs, which we can dissect until the end of days. Here's an analysis of what did happen."
  The Atomic Attacks on Japan: Justified or Not?

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