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A jury unanimously found 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of intentional homicide, reckless and attempted homicide, and reckless endangerment. Twelve citizens concluded that when he killed two men and wounded another during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020, he did so in self-defense. And how could they have
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The words "fascism" and "fascist" are thrown around a lot these days. Most frequently we see these epithets in the blogs and tweets of so-called "progressives" (until recently called liberals, until they rebranded themselves, after realizing the word liberal had become associated with losers)
Editorials
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and its Western allies, as well as the United Nations Security Council, demanded that Saddam Hussein withdraw from Kuwait. If he did not pull back from Kuwait, Iraq would be subject to economic sanctions and perhaps punitive war by a
Editorials
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler. There, Chamberlain, and ministers from other Western nations, signed the Munich Pact, handing over the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not even invited to the talks. The Munich Pact was England&
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In any healthy, well-functioning democracy, when things go terribly wrong, heads roll. Not literally, of course. People resign. The military leaders and government officials honorably take the responsibility for the disaster and resign. And if they don't resign, they are fired.
Commentary
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he is planning to resign in a couple of weeks in the wake of a report finding that he sexually harassed 11 women. His grabby, smutty, demeaning behavior with subordinates (as described in the New York Attorney General's report, and essentially
Culture
If you assume diversity is a good thing, ask yourself a question: Why? People who promote diversity rarely ask this question. We hear over and over about how diversity is such an important virtue that every educational institution, business, and non-profit organization should be judged by how diverse it is.
Editorials
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power … Power is not a means; it is an end. 1984, by George Orwell
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