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Culture June 5, 2020 Denuding Monument Avenue One Statue at a Time By Paul Gottfried 4 min Culture June 5, 2020 On Our Own in the Face of Anarchy By Jeff Minick 3 ¾ min Culture June 5, 2020 Lockdowns and Riots Have Horribly Abused Small Business Owners By Jon Miltimore 7 ¾ min Recent Articles Culture June 5, 2020 Chesterton's Real Opinion of 'The Man Who Was Thursday' By Joseph Pearce 10 ¼ min While G. K. Chesterton had a low opinion of his own novels. With all due respect to this great wordsmith, its time to set the record straight. Read more History June 5, 2020 How Five Justices Botched the CA Church Case on COVID Restrictions By Zach Smith 6 min Was the First Amendment applied correctly in the recent case over COVID church restrictions? Read more Culture June 4, 2020 Modern Plagues and the Prescience of Ray Bradbury By Christine Norvell 4 ¾ min Ray Bradbury proved his prescience on our modern condition numerous times throughout his literary career. How do we recover our lives from his dystopias? Read more Become part of a movement to reclaim America's intellectual and spiritual heritage! Sign Up History June 4, 2020 Healing America Begins With Abandoning Our Factious Spirit By Annie Holmquist 3 ¾ min Will Americans ever learn to abandon their factious approach to everything? Read more Economics June 4, 2020 Greed, Not COVID-19, Devastated New York City’s Budget By Barry Brownstein 4 ¼ min Why should fiscally bad policies get a bailout? Read more Culture June 4, 2020 Black Looting Victim: Our Business ‘Is Our Ministry’ By Rev. Ben Johnson 5 ½ min Across the United States, minority business owners are enduring acute suffering at the hands of rioters who claim to be fighting for racial equality. Read more Culture June 4, 2020 Prosecutions Show Voter Fraud Is Bipartisan By Hans Von Spakovsky 5 ¼ min Two cases, one from each party, showcase the problem of election fraud in new and startling ways at the same time as politicians push full vote-by-mail elections. Read more History June 3, 2020 Rioters Vandalize Memorial to Victims of Communism By Anders Koskinen 3 ¾ min Rioters vandalized the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. Monday night, in a stunning lack of empathy for others' suffering. Read more Culture June 3, 2020 Rebels Without a Logical Clue By Martin Cothran 2 ¾ min The riots destroying minority communities in the aftermath of George Floyd's death are not political, they're a form of therapy for today's young people. Read more Culture June 3, 2020 Taking a Closer Look at Black Lives Matter By Robert Hutchinson 8 min Stoking the flames of racial hatred serves no one, especially when your premise is based on a faulty understanding of easily available data. Read more Culture June 3, 2020 Three Ways Lockdowns Paved the Way for These Riots By Ryan McMaken 8 ¼ min While most of the responsibility for the riots rests with the rioters, we cannot deny that COVID-19 directives of policymakers added fuel to the fire in recent months. Read more Culture June 3, 2020 Check Your Radical Privilege By Thaddeus G. McCotter 3 ½ min Armchair Stalinists are demonstrating that their empathy has been indoctrinated away as they justify riots, theft, arson, and murder in the name of the cause. Read more History June 2, 2020 A History of Presidents Using Military to Restore Order By Fred Lucas 6 ¼ min There have been numerous instances of the President using the military to respond to a variety of crises throughout American history. Read more Culture June 2, 2020 Black Power’s Role in the 2020 Riots By Annie Holmquist 3 ½ min The 1967 book "Black Power" changed the course MLK's peaceful protests sought to follow and laid the groundwork for the riots we see today. Read more Culture June 2, 2020 The Dog Mom Movement Birthed Central Park Karen By Emma Freire 3 ½ min The story of a New York City dog mom's racism should make us pause and consider how we treat our furry friends better than our fellow human beings. Read more Culture June 2, 2020 It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Police Officer By Tate Fegley 4 ½ min Even in the rare instances where police officers are truly fired, the decertification process is very difficult, allowing them to find police employment elsewhere. Read more Politics June 2, 2020 Fauci’s Flip Flops By Ruth Papazian 12 min The science behind the coronavirus is far from settled, and the demands of Americans to resume their lives are as science-based as any COVID restrictions are. Read more Culture June 1, 2020 These Riots Are Nothing Like the Boston Tea Party By Anders Koskinen 3 ½ min Any comparison of the riots in Minneapolis and across the country to the Boston Tea Party betrays a stunning lack of knowledge of American History. Read more Culture June 1, 2020 Minneapolis Mayhem Infiltrates Both Streets and Government By Jeff Minick 4 ½ min For days, government leaders in Minnesota responded in so feeble a manner that theft, arson, and violence reined supreme in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Read more Economics June 1, 2020 Why Socialists Love the Phrase 'It's Not Real Socialism' By Peyton Gouzien 6 min Claiming that the USSR and other countries didn't practice "real socialism" doesn't allow today's socialists to dodge problems of economics and despotism. 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