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The question of how to counteract cancel culture goes far deeper than the question of legal or illegal speech.While some Republicans build their campaigns around cancel culture in the form of a broad bumper sticker slogan or rebuke the party for seeking leaders dissimilar to neoconservatives like Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the issue of standards—and what those standards ought to be—should be at the heart of the cancel culture discussion on the right. It’s time for conservatives to make morals a focal point and not overgeneralize by invoking free speech as an end-all, be-all. Cancel culture, which Federalist writer Tristan...

It’s absurd to claim Cotton was saying Shakespeare was American simply because he said Chinese students should learn about the playwright 'from America.' Shakespeare understood ordered liberty. To repurpose words from “Macbeth,” social media and politics are “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” For proof, look no further than the response to Sen. Tom Cotton’s claim that Chinese students who study in American universities should not be taught quantum computing.Instead, Cotton said, “If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America.” He called it a scandal that American...

Louis Freeh would go on to become director of the FBI in the1990s, but back then he ran the organized crime unit under Giuliani. He said, "Rudy's security was a serious issue. "We would sit down with him and sort of give him a security plan or advise him that he ought to have a bodyguard when he traveled around," said Freeh. "He would listen to us as he always did very carefully and say, 'I don't want that. Our job here is to be U.S. attorneys and prosecutors and if we are walking around with bodyguards we are sending...

Good morning!A coolish morning here: Global Warming strikes again!( I really should do better to come up with something more substantial for this space....)

Good morning!The BBC is calling ALGore's concert in London a "foul-mouthed flop" and showing pics of all the trash left behind.Wildfires continue in the dry, hot west.

As we settle into the nighttime of despair, fret not, for the Sun will rise again!!Good morning everyone.Dog is on vacation...Raven is headed to Italy...Carolinamom is firing up her Grass Hog...And the Dems continue to undermine this great country. The confrontation between Capitol Hill and the White House over the Iraq War timetable seems imminent.

Good morning! Question #1 of the Day: Will the sun appear??Question #2 of the Day: Will the Dems say anything remotely truthful and responsible??

Good morning Everyone! In yesterday's news, the WH defended Presidential advisor Karl Rove's comments from earlier in the week comparing Dem & R response to 9/11, while in Senate Hearings Teddy the Swimmer lied & distorted with his usual impunity.The Dem Party continues to undermine & work to destroy this country, its military, and national security.We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!

Fundamental to the rule of law is the concept of ordered liberty. The core meaning of that concept, in turn, is profoundly relevant to our current war against terror. Some have suggested that the actions we have taken to prosecute that war are a threat to liberty; others defend those actions as vital to the preservation of our liberty. I seek today to mediate these opposing viewpoints by exploring the meaning of ordered liberty. This return to first principles may seem pedantic, but I think it is important at this time of peril for us to take stock of certain...