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DOGS

"FEDS:  Dogs should socially distance to avoid catching Covid-19" Drudge Report, 6/18

AMERICANS *

* Drudge Report, 6/19

• "Land of the worried:  83% of Americans 'very stressed' over nation's future"
• "More than third of Americans think civil war 'likely'"

PROTESTS

"No decent person can support George Floyd's mistreatment, or the mistreatment of anyone else, at the hands of police officers with the sworn duty to uphold the law. The Minneapolis authorities moved quickly, and Derek Chauvin was fired from the Minneapolis police department, placed under arrest and charged with second-degree murder and other charges. The three officers who were with him were also fired and charged two counts of aiding and abetting -- one for second-degree murder and one for second-degree manslaughter. Peaceful protest in any cause is as American as apple pie, but what we saw in the wake of George Floyd's murder is as despicable as anything recently seen in our nation. What makes it worse is the silence and seemly support in many quarters for anarchists who have highjacked the protests to promote their own ends. These are the white liberals and leftists groups like Antifa who could care less about the major problems that exist in black communities and made worse by the rioting and looting."  Walter Williams, Townhall 6/17

CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERS

"And let’s not forget the “civil rights” lawyers. Some of them are legalized vultures who style themselves as modern-day Thurgood Marshalls, fighting for justice. But they seem to be interested exclusively in cases where there is a big payday for themselves, taking a hefty cut on settlements with city governments. And the playbook is simple: inflame public opinion, threaten to sue for an outlandish sum, and wait for timid city officials who fear riots and municipal bankruptcy to capitulate. Query: what’s 30 percent of $300 million? For these jackals, the answer is “social justice, for my bank account.”  Mark Nuckols, Townhall 6/17

RE-OPENING SCHOOLS

"Right now, though, with schools closed all across the country, our children cannot hold on to hope for the future. High school students in particular – those who are approaching their college years – need to believe there is hope for the future, and they must believe that learning and making good grades have rewards.

"The last place middle school students need to be is online, where they can take their middle school bullying tactics behind a screen, without seeing the pain they cause in the faces of those they hurt. And kindergarten and elementary school students cannot learn from Zoom. They need live interaction with their peers to help hold their attention and learn how properly to interact socially.

"It makes no difference how old you are. The simple fact is, if you’re a school-age child, you should be in school."  Jenny Beth Martin, Townhall 6/17

SQUALOR

"Where the Left goes, squalor follows. The scene in militia-occupied Seattle is entirely familiar, the same kind of theatrical filth that has been a part of American counterculture from Woodstock through Occupy Wall Street. These are the idiot children of the American ruling class, toy radicals and Champagne Bolsheviks playing Jacobin for a while until they go back to graduate school. The actual poor, oppressed masses of the world may sometimes live in squalor, but they do not generally live in squalor by choice. For Caitlyn from Georgetown, playing poor is the woke version of playing cowboys and Indians, but playing cowboys and Indians would make you a Very Bad Person, even if, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, you chose to be an Indian."  Kevin Williamson, NRO 6/18

MISTAKES OF THE PAST

"Learning about our history, the way it has evolved, and what it represents is important. It’s important to understand our mistakes of the past. Yet, all of those capitulating to the mob hoping to be spared, will still become future targets. The mob has already canceled those simply for daring to offer a dissenting opinion. If we don’t reign in the cancel culture now, we risk having nothing left."  Evan Berryhill, Townhall, 6/18

THE HUMAN RACE

"There is only one race -- the human race. We are one seamless coat of many colors, one "body" with many parts, each with an important function that contributes to the whole. We call ourselves the UNITED States of America for a reason. No other country exemplifies such unity. Though we have our disagreements and even sometimes divisions, our oneness is our greatest strength. There is no "pure" or "master" race. No race is superior to another. To hate someone because of the color of their skin is to hate one's self because we all share the same origin story, the same human DNA. This is all part of God's doing in His ultimate creative and most beautiful work - humanity. We are created in His image."  Cal Thomas, Townhall 6/18

CONFEDERATE STATUES

"Conservatives tend to think the same way. They reflexively oppose politically correct campaigns to destroy anything giving offense. They fear where the slippery slope of woke iconoclasm will lead — first it’s Jefferson Davis, ultimately George Washington. They value tradition and worry we are trashing part of our history. This impulse, though, is a mistake. Confederate statues and symbols deserve to be reevaluated, and often mothballed . . . 

"Secession was a traitorous act that threatened to destroy the American nation, to create a rump republic built on slavery, and to make impossible the subsequent rise of the United States to a world power. Its leaders don’t deserve to be given a place of honor in our landscape denied to worthier men. Confederate statues shouldn’t be vandalized, but they should go."  Rich Lowry, NRO 6/19