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Let’s Stop Dividing, Start Solving Problems

News media, politicians, and others who earn their living by inciting division and hatred are trying to capitalize on the protests and riots of the past month. Race is on the front burner everywhere, and “systematic racism” is the purported problem. These are the immediate facts: a black man was murdered by a white police officer, protests resulted, and those protests erupted into violent, murderous riots. That seems to demonstrate a deep racial divide and seething hatred, at least if you buy into the narrative. With a little digging, though, a different story emerges. Importantly, ...

What’s The Mattter With KSU?

Kansas hasn’t voted for a Democrat in presidential elections since 1964. From 1995 to 2002 and from 2011 to 2017, Republicans in Topeka held the iron trifecta of the governor’s mansion, the state House and the state Senate. In 2016, Donald Trump walloped Hillary Clinton in this quintessential red state by a 57-36 margin. So why is it that, in 2020, a mainstream conservative Christian college student under fire by a violence-inciting campus mob can’t find a single prominent Republican in the Sunflower State to uphold and defend his free speech rights? Jaden McNeil is a ...

The Daily Litany Begins The Night Before

The sun rose yesterday in Washington, D.C., at 6:02 a.m. I made my routine morning run in the silence of dawn, passing the Lincoln Memorial and running along the still water of the Reflecting Pool. Like the giant sculpture of President Lincoln, I faced due east and watched as the sun rose over the horizon, melting the pockets of nighttime shadows, stirring the still-sleeping birds in to their morning chatter and waking the world with its advancing light. Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French, the architects of the Lincoln Memorial, must have imagined the 16th president seated there, ...

How Long Will Vandals Run Amok?

The left’s war on America’s past crossed several new frontiers last week. Portland’s statue of George Washington, the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated. While the statue stood, an American flag was draped over its head and set ablaze. After it was pulled down, a new fire was set on another American flag spread across the statue, and also burned. The vacated pedestal was painted with the words, “You’re on Native Land.” In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood at the ...

Trump Threatens Civilization

This election “is no longer about Donald Trump’s tweeting,” conservative historian Victor Davis Hanson told Fox News host Tucker Carlson the other night. Nor is it about “a lockdown, the virus, the economy (or) foreign policy. It’s an existential question ... and I’m going to vote for civilization.” Ah, the conservative warning of barbarians at the gate. It’s a hardy perennial. I recognize it because, as a conservative myself, I’m in sympathy with it — to a point. In “The Righteous Mind,” Jonathan Haidt observed that both progressives and conservatives are ...

Separation Of Powers Is A Key Principle

Have you noticed that people from many states lately refer to what a governor permits? And have you noticed that many don’t even question the legality of such decrees? Let’s back up. A key principle in American constitutional law is the limited and enumerated powers of government: In this country, any government has only those powers that We the People granted to it through the constitution or analogous document establishing it. It has no other powers. As the U.S. Supreme Court held in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States in 1935, “Extraordinary conditions may call ...