Written by Shelby Steele
Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented.… Continue Reading
Written by Perry Bacon Jr.
In the days after Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the two people who seemed like the Democratic Party’s most obvious 2020 candidates, then-Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, hinted that Clinton had gone too far in talking about issues of identity. “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman; vote for me,’” Sanders said.
Other liberals lamented that the party had lost white voters in such states as Ohio and Iowa who had supported Barack Obama, and they said Democrats needed to dial back the identity talk to win them back.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Franken, Barack Obama, basket of deplorables, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Identity Politics, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lee Drutman, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood
Federal Elections, Political | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 28, 2018 4:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Not content with filing nuisance lawsuits all over the country, most of them aimed at thwarting the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is plunging into local political campaigns.
In Philadelphia, about 40 ACLU ex-con canvassers like Mike Twiggs, 59, who served 41 years for murder, knocked on doors and distributed literature keyed to the Democratic primary election last Tuesday in which voters selected newcomer Larry Krasner as the district attorney candidate.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Amelia Warren Tyagi, American Civil Rights Union, Ben Wofford, Bill Cobb, Black Lives Matter, D.A. Seth Williams, Elizabeth Warren, Fraternal Order of Police, George Soros, Larry Krasner, Mike Twiggs, Occupy Philadelphia, Project Vote, Udi Ofer
Political | David E. Smith |
May 30, 2017 5:00 AM |
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Written by Jeffrey Ludwig
Are you aware that we are facing a political and cultural tragedy right now? The Democratic Party, one of two great parties of the USA, has been co-opted by the communist ideologues, the power-mad neo-Marxists, in our political establishment. They can call it liberalism or social justice or togetherness, but it is my considered judgment that, without exaggeration, we are facing an intent to subvert the electoral will of the American people.… Continue Reading
Tags: "Big Bill" Haywood, Andrew Young, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Black Power, Bobby Seale, Charles Schumer, Communism, David Horowitz, Debbie Schultz, Democratic Party, Dick Durbin, Donald Trump, Eugene V. Debs, fascism, Henry Wallace, Hillary Clinton, Huey Newton, Josef Stalin, Jr., Mao Zedong, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Ralph Abernethy, Russia, Socialism, Stokely Carmichael, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society
Political | David E. Smith |
May 20, 2017 7:00 AM |
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Written by Steve McCann
A recent phenomenon in American politics amid the conclaves of the media and academic elites is the stultifying debate over an outgoing president’s so-called “Legacy.” The nation now finds itself embroiled in this conversation as none other than Barack Obama, by his innumerable self-serving speeches, countless appearances on a multitude of media platforms and myriad gatherings with fawning supporters, has attempted to establish a positive spin on his legacy. He has far exceeded anything the previous occupants of the Oval Office have done to reinforce their image as they leave the White House behind. … Continue Reading
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Written by John Biver
Now that Barack Obama’s second term is coming to an end, the question is — who will fill his shoes as the leader of the Democratic Party? Minnesota U.S. Representative Keith Ellison would like the job — and is officially seeking to become the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Journalist and newspaper editor Caroline Glick has pointed out that “When a party is out of power, the party chairman is also treated like its formal leader, and most active spokesman.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrew McCarthy, Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Caroline Glick, Chuck Schumer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, Diana West, Donna Brazile, Hamas, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, Keith Ellison, Louis Farrakhan, Muslim Brotherhood, Nation of Islam, Progressive Caucus, Scott Johnson
Faith & Religion, Political | David E. Smith |
November 22, 2016 5:28 PM |
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Written by Aaron Banler
A new poll shows that the despite the poisonous rhetoric from the Black Lives Matter crowd, respect for police officers has increased significantly over the past year.
A Gallup poll released on Monday found that 76 percent of Americans said they respected their local police officers “a great deal,” close to the all-time high of 77 percent in 1967. Gallup first started this particular survey in 1965.
Among political ideology, conservatives had the most respect for cops, at 85 percent.… Continue Reading
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Written by Dr. Michael Brown
Is it all politics, or does Hillary understand the incongruity of her statements on black babies?
I know that you and Mr. Clinton have been considered real friends of the African-American community to the point that, before President Obama’s election, your husband was jokingly referred to as the nation’s first black president.
I also know that you have identified proudly as an “old fashioned Methodist” and that you warmly welcomed a contingent of African-American pastors who laid hands on you and anointed you as the next president.… Continue Reading
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Written by Robert Knight
Ever notice how threats of force invariably follow the Left’s pleas for “tolerance?”
Let’s call this criminalization of dissent “totalitolerance.” This term has been around since at least 2013, but it deserves wider circulation, given the ferocity and frequency of progressive attacks on free speech.
In California, Attorney General Kamala Harris demanded the names of donors to conservative nonprofits in order to expose them to the kind of harassment endured by supporters of the Prop 8 marriage amendment referendum in 2008. … Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bathroom Wars, Bernadette B. Wilson, Bill de Blasio, Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, Chick-Fil-A, Claude Walker, Donald Trump, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Eric Schneiderman, Eugene Volokh, Gender Dysphoria, Hans Bader, John Chisholm, Kamala Harris, Loretta Lynch, Phil Hanlon, Prop 8, Scott Walker, Totalitolerance
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
June 1, 2016 4:00 AM |
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Written by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
Bernie Sanders’ lock on young people has been a constant throughout the Democratic presidential primaries. Exit polling shows he won 83% of voters under 30 in Pennsylvania last month, 74% in Indiana last week and 71% in West Virginia on Tuesday.
Why are Millennials so enamored of Sanders? Most hypotheses credit their enthusiasm for sweeping moral goals such as transparency, fairness and justice. Perhaps young voters prefer Sanders’ call for “revolution” over Hillary Clinton’s more pragmatic incrementalism. … Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Cold War era, democratic socialist, Election 2016, Gulag, Hillary Clinton, Larry David, Millennials, Ronald Reagan, Socialism, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
May 13, 2016 4:00 AM |
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