Plus: Our Government’s Unwise Stamp of Approval on Black Lives Matter
| Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump and others cite science in urging that schools can open safely this fall despite COVID-19. America’s schools surely can do as well as Europe’s in meeting the challenge, Lindsey Burke argues. The government shouldn’t allow employees to support Black Lives Matter on taxpayers’ time, Armstrong Williams writes. On the podcast, we examine the Big Apple’s spike in violent crime. Plus: putting off a higher minimum wage; what’s at stake in preserving a statue of Lincoln; and the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism. Sixty-five years ago today, the Disneyland theme park opens on 160 acres in Anaheim, California. Enjoy the weekend. | |
| Commentary | Save This Emancipation Monument, Save American Ideals | | By Star Parker Contrary to claims of the dismantlers, the freed slave Archer Alexander is not kneeling in servitude before Lincoln but rather, according to many serious voices in this historic debate, getting up and looking out toward his freedom. | More |
Commentary | Nick Cannon's Anti-Semitism Symptomatic of a Deeper Problem | | By Joel Griffith The hate-stoking conspiracy theories enthusiastically shared by the actor-comedian are symptomatic of the underlying problem of community and religious leaders and educators who disseminate anti-Semitism behind a veneer of scholarship and theology. | More |
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