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| Good morning from Washington, where the talk of the town is what a New York Times editor has to say in resigning after being bullied for her personal views. Jarrett Stepman calls it a new low in the slide of the Old Gray Lady. What’s going on with COVID-19 in Florida? Doug Badger takes a closer look. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Lee Edwards compares today’s left to what he witnessed in the ’60s. Plus: the hounding of Goya Foods’ CEO; Star Parker defends a Lincoln statue from the mob; and the miserable state of academia. On this date in 1971, President Richard Nixon announces he will visit communist China, a turning point in U.S.-China relations. | |
| News | Black Leaders Rally to Save DC’s Lincoln Park Statue | | By Rachel del Guidice “We do not believe that America is so systematically racist that we should divide ourselves now and start having discussions with domestic terrorists about which statues stand and which statues fall,” says Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. | More |
Commentary | Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians | | By Walter E. Williams The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. | More |
Commentary | New York Times Editor Quits Over Newspaper’s Internal ‘Orthodoxy’ | | By Jarrett Stepman “I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative,” writes Bari Weiss in resigning as an opinion editor and writer for The New York Times. | More |
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