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Apr 19 2021
Opinion
Cowardly CEOs’ woke political activism is a PR gimmick
Hysteria, groupthink and a fair amount of hypocrisy are the key ingredients in a ruinous cocktail that has managed to intoxicate some formerly profit-focused boardrooms.
One day, it’s the Adena Friedman-led Nasdaq stock market demanding that its US-listed companies have fully diverse boards even as it ignores a Chinese company’s treatment of the oppressed Uighur ethnic minority. The
New York Post (Opinion)Nov 26 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Thanksgiving History and the American People
Facing a tense political climate and COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions, the 2020 Thanksgiving holiday has a bit of a different feel. Projected presidential election winner Joe Biden delivered a holiday address Wednesday, as debate continues about how to celebrate the holiday safely and joyously. Another point of discussion is how Thanksgiving connects with American history and its Indigenous
HuffPost National Review (News) The HillJan 11 2022
Opinion
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Destroy Your Supermarket
In a continued effort to deflect attention away from the Biden administration’s mismanagement, Elizabeth Warren contends that corporate greed is causing inflation and shortages and a lack of supermarket choices.
I live in a mid-sized American city in a purple state, and we have, within a 15-minute drive from my house:
Target grocery
Walmart grocery
Two Harris
David HarsanyiAug 03 2020
Background
Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Electoral fraud can take different forms, including in-person voter fraud and fraudulent activity involving absentee or mail ballots, and can occur at different points of the election process, from registration to the tallying of ballots.
There is debate surrounding the extent to which various types of electoral
BallotpediaFeb 26 2021
Analysis
Native American nominee’s grilling raises questions on bias
When Wyoming U.S. Sen. John Barrasso snapped at Deb Haaland during her confirmation hearing, many in Indian Country were incensed.
The exchange, coupled with descriptions of the Interior secretary nominee as “radical” — by other white, male Republicans — left some feeling Haaland is being treated differently because she is a Native American woman.
“If it was any other person,
Associated Press Fact CheckOct 28 2021
Analysis
Why Martin Luther King Couldn't Get a Carry Permit
After his home was bombed in 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a gun. Despite the potentially deadly threats that King faced as a leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, the county sheriff, Mac Sim Butler, said no.
Next week the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to a New York law similar to the Alabama statute that empowered local officials like
ReasonJan 12 2022
News
Biden administration planning lists of employees seeking ‘religious’ vaccine exemptions
An obscure federal agency has proposed creating a database capturing the names and “personal religious information” of government employees who submit “religious accommodation requests” to be exempted from the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
At least seven other federal agencies, including five Cabinet departments, are apparently setting up similar “personal religious
Washington TimesDec 20 2021
News
Should American athletes boycott the Beijing Olympics?
The White House announced Monday that the United States will hold a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
The decision comes in response “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity” by the Chinese government, White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki told reporters. The primary reason for the diplomatic boycott, Psaki said, was the ongoing subjugation of the Uyghurs —
Yahoo! The 360Oct 25 2021
News
2020 saw highest number of reported hate crimes in two decades, updated FBI data shows
The number of hate crimes reported in 2020 was the highest recorded in two decades, according to updated FBI data released Monday. The FBI revealed its amended hate crime statistics for fiscal year 2020 following a technical submission error that had excluded some data from Ohio in the agency's original release in August. The FBI has since addressed the technical challenge in the state's
CBS News (Online)Mar 14 2022
Analysis
Read the Classroom ‘Antiracism’ Survey That Has Maryland Parents ‘Livid’
A Maryland school district paid an "antiracist" consulting firm nearly $1 million to ask parents if their six-year-old children were being taught enough about racism.
The survey, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, gives Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) parents a chance to rate the district's "antiracism" curricula. The survey asks parents if they believe
Washington Free Beacon