How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?
Over the last century, there has been a trend to establish “truth and reconciliation commissions” in countries emerging from periods of political terrorism, totalitarianism, or civil war. The idea is to acknowledge the crimes and atrocities that past governments officially sanctioned and to recognize the harms inflicted upon their victims. As is often the case when governments “disappear” citizens or throw them in gulags for their politically incorrect thoughts, it is the not knowing that haunts society. Survivors bereft of answers are left with inconsolable anguish. The commissions are often used as a first step toward healing grave national trauma.
It is no surprise that these commissions generally reflect the worldviews of the prevailing government that forms them. Communist governments are quick to label past “right-wing” officials as “murderers” while memorializing their own murderers as “patriots,” “civil rights heroes,” or “noble revolutionaries.” Continue reading
Five years ago, public schools across the United States closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large school districts were locked out of classrooms for 18 months. These prolonged public school closures harmed a generation of children. According to University of Arkansas professor of education policy Harry Anthony Patrinos, school closures in developed countries reduced students’ lifetime earnings by $21,000. 
Democrats are ready to force a government shutdown to appease their far-left base. Sure, the Republicans control both the House and Senate, but 60 votes are required in the Senate to keep the government going, and there are only 53 Republican Senators – and Mitch ’Turtle’ McConnell cannot be trusted to deliver a vote that helps Trump. 
In the election of 1800, journalist James Callender once described presidential candidate (and then Vice President) John Adams as “a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
The UN was established after the failed “League of Nations,” but both were predicated on nations getting together to prevent disastrous wars.
Unfortunately, wherever one finds a free people and a free society, one will always find evil men and women who will do anything to control them, to bring them to heel, and to conquer them in fact – to force them to do their bidding upon pain of death. And in that, just as has always been the case, we will always find ourselves in a war to survive and defeat the forces of tyranny, those monsters who hate freedom and liberty.
The Department of Education has operated as a costly experiment in federal overreach for too long – expanding bureaucratic layers, weakening local control, and spending billions without improving academic outcomes.
A vast quantity of marijuana grown in the state leaves for the black market. Officials say 85 percent of grow sites have Chinese connections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should recommend that people receive a COVID-19 vaccine only after speaking with a health care provider, agency advisers said on Sept. 19.
