TRENDING
- "Black Lives Matter targets Paw Patrol for depictions of 'good cops' Drudge Report, 6/11
- "Dems reach out to blacks with solemn performance of the cha-cha slide" Babylon Bee, 6/11
- "McGruff the crime dog put down" Babylon Bee, 6/11
- "Florida recount finally wraps up, Al Gore declared president" Babylon Bee, 6/11
INDIFFERENCE
"Social distancing and mandated lockdowns for months have been the source of endless fighting between the people and their governments. Red and blue states often adopted diametrically opposite policies.
"But the massive demonstrations and rioting saw hundreds of thousands of protesters jammed together and often without masks. That mass disobedience to quarantining will teach us, better than any university modeling, whether the virus spikes or is indifferent to thousands who congregate in the streets." Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online 6/11
COURAGEOUS POLITICAL LEADERS
"Wise and courageous political leaders would ease tensions by looking for instances of universal goodwill and bringing those to everyone's attention; collaborating with members of other parties to find meaningful and effective solutions; and upholding civil rights (like the right to peaceably protest) while protecting innocent bystanders and the rule of law. Instead, our politicians make inflammatory accusations because they think it's going to win elections. Elected officials arrest surfers, skateboarders, barbers and moms at public parks but turn a blind eye while property is burned, looted and destroyed. That isn't common cause; it's cowardice." Laura Hollis, Townhall 6/11
JOURNALISTS
"We have too many journalists who publish and promote falsehoods that confirm their political leanings but avoid investigations that don't. They steer clear of controversy when it upsets their corporate higher-ups but betray the public's trust by abandoning their commitment to civil rights, the rule of law and the presumption of innocence. They happily ignore the rampant abuses of government power under former President Barack Obama's administration and its holdovers but insist that the narcissistic tweets of a bombastic real estate mogul pose an existential threat to the republic." Ditto
GOOD POLICY & GOOD POLITICS
"My bet is Democrats have already overplayed their hand. Even in the midst of justified anguish over the horrible killing of George Floyd, as well as a heightened attention to issues of systemic racism and police misconduct, I simply do not think most Americans agree with an approach that either condones violence or reduces police presence. In a civilized society, law and order are good things. For Republicans, this is good policy and good politics." Jessica Curtis, Townhall 6/11
OUR PERSPECTIVE
"We all assume that our perspective is right. The reality is that our perspective is our perspective. Even the person next to us will have a slightly different angle from which they see and experience that same event. This will lead to a different understanding. It takes time, effort and intellectual humility to ask another what their perspective is and how it shapes their understanding of what is happening.
"It also requires you to be secure in who you are as a person -- to then listen to someone else and really hear what they are saying. Most of us don't listen but instead respond in our own mind to what we hear when others are talking. This internal dialogue keeps us from focusing on the other person and what they are saying; we instead spend our time defending what we already believe to be true." Jackie Gingrich Cushman, Townhall 6/11
DRAMA
"Allocating ventilators, acquiring personal protective equipment, and ramping up testing on a rapid basis in the middle of a pandemic when the traditional apparatus of government isn’t up to it is hard — and the Trump team has managed it over the past couple of months. The press doesn’t tell that story, and regardless, it gets overwhelmed by the constant drama emanating from the Oval Office." Rich Lowry, NRO 6/12
CONFEDERATES
"The fact is that there is vanishingly little in the historical record to suggest any similarity between the cause of the Founders and the cause of the Confederates. The secessionists themselves said this loudly and often. Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens’s Cornerstone Speech, delivered in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861, served as a de facto manifesto for the rebels. In it, he explicitly denounced the racial attitudes of the Founders and the subsequent inadequacy of the Constitution they framed. “The prevailing ideas of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution,” Stephens proclaimed, “were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.” He went on to assert that “those ideas . . . were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the ‘storm came and the wind blew.’” Cameron Hilditch, NRO 6/12
PAW PATROL
"The vanguard of the revolution has set its beady-eyed gaze on . . . Paw Patrol.
"Paw Patrol, a children’s cartoon about doggie do-gooders, has as one of its principal characters a German shepherd called Chase, who is a police officer. (A police officer in an imaginary universe in which dogs have full-time jobs, drive cars, and wear jaunty caps.) According to the New York Times, which just fired its opinion editor for publishing opinions, Paw Patrol has run afoul of the new commandment: Thou shalt not make sympathetic depictions of police officers, including police officers whose beat is an imaginary universe in which dogs have full-time jobs, drive cars, and wear jaunty caps." The Editors, NRO 6/12
RACISM
"In terms of 19th- and early 20th-century racism, it would be hard to match the deleterious efforts of President Woodrow Wilson to poison race relations. He resisted integration in the armed forces, as well as the civil service, and thus set back those efforts for decades. Harry Truman did what Wilson might have done more than three decades earlier." Victor Davis Hanson, NRO 6/12
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