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America Is In A Cultural Civil War (The Federalist)
This is the week America woke up to a moment of clarity: we are in the midst of a great cultural civil war.
The country was largely unified when we all saw the terrible video of George Floyd’s tragic death – unified in anger and frustration, in wanting justice and punishment for a cop who, whatever his motivation, went too far and murdered a citizen for the crime of passing a counterfeit bill. Ever since then, we’ve been coming apart. [Read more]
Top Dems punt on ‘defund the police’ question (FOX News)
Many top Democrats seemingly are reluctant to speak out on the sudden momentum behind the movement to “defund the police,” as Minneapolis lawmakers announce they have the votes to do just that in their city — the epicenter of the nation’s unrest over the past two weeks following the death of George Floyd. [Read More]
The domestic terrorist groups collectively known as “Antifa” depend on a carefully crafted and blatantly false mythology to survive.
With any luck, the latest undercover Project Veritas investigation exposing one of America’s oldest and most violent Antifa cells will be enough to explode three of the central myths about left-wing terror in America. [Read More]
Key details on violent riots near the White House were removed from the broadcast of an interview of Attorney General William Barr on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” Sunday. Anchor Margaret Brennan repeatedly described protests as “peaceful” and the clearing of protesters to set up a stronger perimeter as unnecessarily rushed, contentions Barr strongly denied.
Left out of the interview that aired on CBS on Sunday morning was Barr’s detailed accounting of much of the violent context of that perimeter expansion, including that “bricks and inflammable liquid” were being thrown at police in Lafayette Square near the White House as rioters “were trying to get entry” over the fences, the five dozen officers guarding Lafayette Square who were “lost” the night prior in the violence, and the individuals who at the time of their forced dispersal “wrestled with the police officers trying to tear their shields from them, in one case, struggling to get one of the police officer’s guns.” [Read More]
