Feb 04, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump is reshaping one of the nation’s most liberal appeals courts. Fred Lucas reports. What does a leader of Black Lives Matter have in common with ardent supporters of the president? You’ll want to check out Rob Bluey’s interview with Hawk Newsome. Virginia’s governor should do the right thing and step down, Kay Coles James writes. Plus: Sebastian Gorka on socialism’s allure for young Americans despite a bloody history of failure, and Nolan Peterson on what U.S. withdrawal from an arms treaty with Russia means for Ukraine.
The Difference in How Socialism and Free Markets Work in the Real World
Wherever socialism was tried, from Moscow to Beijing, from Havana to Pyongyang, the world witnessed the same result: oppression of the masses, power and wealth for the party nomenklatura, and most often an eventual economic collapse.
“The first thing I said was, ‘I'm Hawk Newsome. I'm the president of Black Lives Matter, and I'm an American,’” recalls Newsome about his speech at a Trump rally.
Trump Nominations Begin to Remake the Liberal 9th Circuit
“It doesn’t change the [9th Circuit] majority to Republican nominees,” says Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network. “But when we are talking about future three-judge panels, the odds are a lot better.”
Gov. Northam, Step Down and Let the Healing Begin
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s cavalier attitude toward infanticide and his admitted racist behavior emanate from the same seed, writes Kay Coles James, president of The Heritage Foundation.
US Suspends Cold War-Era Nuclear Treaty With Russia, and Ukraine Braces for the Fallout
“Continued efforts by the U.S. government over the last five years to engage Russia to persuade them to return to compliance with the INF treaty have failed. All U.S. inquiries and efforts have been met with lies, deceit, and denial,” says Heritage Foundation defense expert Thomas Spoehr.
We Hear You: Teaching Our Children, Taming Woke Moralism, Unpacking Green New Deal
How ironic that the parents and grandparents who have sacrificed to send these kids to college are being labeled by the “professors” at these institutions as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and consumed by self-interest, writes Drew Page.
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