TRENDING
- "Poor not worrying about pronoun usage" Drudge Report, 7/18
- "Walmart now requires all shoppers to wear pants" Babylon Bee
SUNSCREEN
"Sunscreen chemicals accumulate in body at high levels" Drudge Report, 7/17THE REVOLUTION
"The goals of the revolution have never changed. It has simply airbrushed its terrorist leaders into prominent public scholars and “activists” with a passion for “change” and “justice.” The revolution has lots of money, organization, control of the schools, support from one of the nation’s two major political parties, and the media megaphone. That is why the revolution is winning. The 1960s never ended, they just paved the way for today." Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online, 7/18CORONAVIRUS
In theory, more cases of infection do not necessarily mean more deaths, if the newly infected are young and healthy enough and treatment methods continue to improve. But realistically, those young and healthy infected patients will sooner or later interact with older and less healthy people and spread the virus to them, causing the death toll to creep back up. Doctors and medical experts have been warning about this for weeks, and the daily data are now proving them right. Jim Geraghty, National Review Online, 7/17
"For many Americans, the most painful consequence of the coronavirus lockdowns is the closing of church services. The grace and peace of Sunday makes it easier to make it through the week. But our media and political elites are indifferent to that pain, or openly hostile . . .
"In short, our media elites don't care when religious believers of all colors and creeds are demoted to second-class citizens in a dizzying display of "affirmative discrimination." Go complain about it to your God, they might say. This is a call to action, even that mysterious action called prayer." Tim Graham, Townhall, 7/17
RE-OPENING SCHOOLS
"Despite evidence from Germany and elsewhere in Europe that children are virtually immune to COVID-19 and rarely if ever spread the virus to adults, some teachers and administrators say they want to skip school this fall because they're worried about the health of "their" kids . . ."Besides showing how little some teachers actually care about their students, the debate over reopening schools has proved what hypocrites and fakes liberal Democrats are. They tell us over and over they care deeply about the poor, the working class and Black and brown people - their party's core votership.
"Well, whose children do they think are going to be hurt by keeping the public schools closed?" Michael Reagan, Townhall, 7/18
FEAR
"To conquer fear, it is ideal that one should train one’s body in such a way as to accustom it to sustaining some measure of trauma: weightlifting, martial arts—these activities impact your body like few others and which people can continue to partake into old age."Given present circumstances in society, more conservative Americans are beginning to learn, or relearn, that “personal responsibility” entails the obligation to assume responsibility for their own defense; a look at a combat art may not be a bad idea." Jack Kerwick, Townhall, 7/18
ELECTION 2020
"Newsflash: The overwhelming majority of Trump supporters doesn't give a rip about his so-called presidentiality. They don't care about the proverbial crease in his pants, or many other characteristics the pseudo-sophisticated beltway elite cherish. They don't want someone like Mitt Romney, who let Barack Obama walk all over him in a presidential debate instead of fighting for what he purported to believe in."Trump supporters don't want Trump to moderate his positions in the hopes that the committed radicals will morph into moderates and the crisis will pass. It won't, because leftist agitators won't let it. Trump supporters realize we're in a war for the survival of the country -- a war we didn't start and one we'll lose if we don't fight back with every fiber of our being. We want him to counter the violent, revolutionary left at every turn." David Limbaugh, Townhall, 7/17
"The Biden team certainly isn’t going to rewrite any campaign playbooks or dazzle anyone with its brilliance, but it has avoided serious mistakes and demonstrated an understanding of the basic political terrain and its candidate’s strengths. It hasn’t asked Biden to do anything out of his comfort zone or beyond his capabilities and has been content for President Donald Trump to dominate all the attention, so long as Trump is not advancing his cause, and often setting it back, with all the airtime and headlines . . .
"Still, nothing is decided in July. Events took a hand earlier this year in turning a political tail wind for Trump into a stiff head wind. Something unforeseeable could change the dynamic yet again, and better economic conditions could improve the overall atmosphere. Biden’s record and agenda give Trump targets to shoot at, and he should obviously take every opportunity to make the election, to the extent he can, about the radicalism of the Democratic Party.
"Finally, there’s the fact that Biden is an unsteady performer at best. The strictures around COVID-19 have relieved him of the rigors of the typical presidential campaign, but he’s going to have to emerge to participate in a debate or debates in the fall, and no one can rule out some catastrophic failure.
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So, Trump can’t be counted out. But the Biden campaign is canny enough that it isn’t going to make it easy for him. Rich Lowry, National Review Online, 7/17
