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AUGUST 31, 2020 / Hanson on politically driven ignorance

Excerpts from Victor Davis Hanson, "Let Down at the Top: Our Baby Boomers elites, mired in excess and safe in their enclaves, have overseen the decay of our core cultural institutions," National Review, November 14, 2017 (abridged, emphasis added).

[THE] SO-CALLED BABY BOOMERS have a lot to account for — given the sorry state of . . .

AUGUST 31, 2020 / To my Catholic friends who plan to vote for . . .

. . . the Biden/Harris ticket:

Kamala Harris believes membership in the Knights of Columbus disqualifies a nominee to serve as federal judges. 

"Since 1933," she wrote to one judicial nominee, "you have . . .

AUGUST 29, 2020 / Today, let's help the homeless by . . .

. . . writing a check to Star of Hope Mission.

Mail your check to . . .

AUGUST 28, 2020 / Orrin Hatch on defunding universities that act like political re-education camps

THE SPIRIT OF THE INQUISITION is alive and well in today’s cancel culture. The objective is not to root out nonbelievers in the church but ideological heretics in newsrooms and universities. These institutions are supposed to be bastions of free speech. But in 2020 any journalist or scholar who strays from progressive orthodoxy is ripe for cancellation.

Unlike Tyndale, no one is being burned at the stake, but plenty are being fired from their jobs. . .

AUGUST 28, 2020 / If you prefer Mideast peace over Mideast war, President Trump has earned your vote

HIS MOST IMPORTANT accomplishment is what he has not done: He has not started another inconclusive, never-ending American war in a distant land. Instead he is withdrawing troops from conflicts started by other presidents. If he had done nothing else, that would have been enough for many of us.

But he has done much more. Earlier this month . . .

AUGUST 27, 2020 / For my lefty friends who . . .

. . . are hot to set price controls on U.S. pharmaceutical drugs, President Trump is trying to do just that.

Maybe you should vote for him.

Here's the story:

AUGUST 26, 2020 / As usual, Glenn Reynolds . . .

. . . gets it right.

From today's Instapundit (emphasis added):

Thinking about last night’s Republican Convention today at the gym, I realized that Trump isn’t just running for re-election: The story he’s telling at the RNC is also about . . .

AUGUST 26, 2020 / Gerard Baker on America's greatness and . . .

. . . the betrayal of that greatness by America's elites.

. . . .

At the end of the 20th century, the U.S. had won World War II and the Cold War, liberated half the planet from history’s most dehumanizing ideologies, advanced a free-market capitalism that had led more humans out of poverty than any economic system ever devised, and given the world the richest bounty of . . .

AUGUST 24, 2020 / Another thing to defund

EVERY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY that forces students . . .

AUGUST 23, 2020 / On Prayer

"DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." So says the Bible (Philippians 4:6 (NIV)).

Does prayer really work? We Christians says yes, based on . . .