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The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan said: "The social alienation among the black lower class is matched and probably enhanced, by a virulent form of anti-white feeling among portions of the large and prospering black middle class. It would be difficult to overestimate the degree to which young well educated blacks detest white America." ("Benign Neglect," January 1970) I frequently say: "It's not a Gordian knot that keeps so many blacks tied to the plantation of self-limitation and immiseration – it's a pernicious form of an inculcated stenotopic mindset that constrains the person to being a prisoner of their own making."...

...The second day of the impeachment trial took a sharp turn, when Trump attorneys Pam Bondi and Eric Herschmann spent a significant portion of their time on the Senate floor arguing that Biden should be investigated for corruption. Bondi primarily focused on Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and his role on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president and in charge of Ukraine matters. Trump's team has presented no evidence that Biden used his role as vice president to benefit his son nor alleged anything improper other than the "appearance of a conflict."... Biden's attempt...

Stephan Hunter Receives Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award from Tom Gresham at 2020 Shot Show. Image courtesy Dean Weingarten On 22 January, 2020, the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) awarded novelist Stephen Hunter with the Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award.From POMA: The award recognizes extraordinary achievements in communications and in support of our hunting heritage and firearm freedoms. Hunter is 40-year veteran author of more than a dozen novels and is known for exacting technical details about firearms and shooting. His 1993 novel “Point of Impact” was made into the movie...

InStyle has announced its “Badass 50 2020: Meet the women who are changing the world” list. In addition to people such as actress Dakota Johnson, Today co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, and country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves, the list includes three legislators: Nancy Pelosi, Katie Porter, and Deb Butler. All three are Democrats. InStyle didn’t include one elected Republican politician. Why? It’s not that Republicans don’t have “badass” women among them. Think about Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona. She was the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat. You don’t get more “badass” than that. But because she isn’t...

LEXINGTON, Virginia -- Every Wednesday morning, James McDaniel sits along the South Main Street portion of U.S. Highway 11 with a healthy stack of The News-Gazette beside him. He wears a neat white apron with the newspaper's moniker stitched across the top. He keeps a small, folded tarp tucked away to protect the paper in case of rain, even if there isn't a cloud in the sky. "You just never know," he says. He also keeps a broad, never-failing smile on his face and a "hello" on his lips for everyone who passes on the street, whether they buy a...

I began part one of "Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?" with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide, self-injury, depression, mass shootings and loneliness (at all ages) are higher than ever recorded. It seems that Americans may have been happier, and certainly less lonely, during the Great Depression and World War II than today, even with today's unprecedentedly high levels of health, longevity, education and material well-being. There is, of course, no single explanation, and I listed a number...

Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump and vocal opponent of his impeachment, is expected to announce he will challenge fellow Republican and newly appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler for her seat this year, a Republican official said Monday. The decision by the four-term lawmaker could complicate the GOP’s chances of holding onto the seat as Republicans battle to retain their Senate majority in this November’s elections.

The horrible news about the tragic death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash was greeted with shock and horror, as any unexpected death would be. It was also greeted with awful people attacking him, attacking President Trump, attacking anyone they already wanted to attack but hadn’t yet that day. In other words, it was like every other story – quickly weaponized by people with too much time on their hands and an unstable psyche. I don’t know if human beings were always this awful and we simply lacked the ability to act on it on a large...

The impeachment trial spilled into its second week on Monday, as President Donald Trump's counsel presented more opening arguments on the Senate floor. It was the first day back following The New York Times' bombshell report on Sunday that Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, had detailed in an unpublished manuscript a conversation where the president reportedly tied the release of Ukraine military aid to investigations into the Bidens. ABC News has not independently reviewed the manuscript, but according to the Times, Bolton wrote that he had a conversation with Trump about the Ukraine aid and investigating his political...

"These are in accordance with the working of the strength of [God's] might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead" (Eph. 1:19-20). In Christ you have all the power you will ever need. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the great hope of believers. Because He lives, we will live also (John 14:19). Peter said we have been "born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away" (1 Pet. 1:3-4). We and what we...

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As a pulmonologist in Seattle, near where the first case of the new coronavirus was confirmed in the United States last week, I relied heavily on the city’s hospitals, clinics and departments of health to protect our community. And they did so admirably, immediately acting decisively and shrewdly despite the fear and uncertainty that always arises with an invisible biological threat. My colleagues and I working on the front lines of our health care system have come to expect this emergency response to be activated rapidly and effectively whenever a new health threat arises. Yet our Homeland Security agenda doesn’t...

What a handy time for a leak. There stood the Trump defense team, ready to lay out the rationale for why investigating Ukrainian corruption was a thoroughly fitting pretext for sending aid money—not despite the prospect of Biden family involvement, but in fact because of it. By what logic is an American president supposed to turn a blind eye to misdeeds because a political rival may lie at the root? The defenders laid out their case dutifully Monday, from Ken Starr’s historical walk through impeachments past to Pam Bondi’s enumeration of Hunter Biden’s curious connections to the previous examples of...

Today’s CG is from The Arkansas Democrat Gazette ZBJ VZBULZN OBE WTZ’J CB DBFMJSLZN LD DBFMJLFMD TAA LJ JTVMD JB CB LJ. —TAAO WTQJMQ You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips...

President Donald Trump’s legal team is raising a broad-based attack on the impeachment case against him even as it mostly brushes past allegations in a new book that could undercut a key defense argument at his Senate trial. Former national security adviser John Bolton writes in a manuscript that Trump wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it committed to helping with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden. That assertion matters because Trump and his lawyers have repeatedly insisted that he never tied the suspension of security aid to political investigations. The revelation clouded White House hopes for a...

In the middle of a muddle, there's minimal sense in predicting outcomes. In other words, is the president's former national security advisor speeding the president toward removal from office? (I strongly doubt whether John Bolton's version of President Donald Trump's Ukrainian diplomacy -- so to call it-- will slow down the necessary process of Senate acquittal on vastly overblown impeachment charges. But what does some hack journalist understand? Beyond the reality of how much trouble even a president can get in by talking before thinking?) A more vital matter practically shrieks at us as we ponder how much Trump did...

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience! One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, ' You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down! 'How in the world did you...

We finally got a taste Sunday night of what former national security adviser John Bolton might tell President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial -- if he's called to testify, that is. What we learned reinforced the potential peril for Republicans if they refuse to let him do so. The New York Times reported Sunday that Bolton makes a series of very big Ukraine-related claims in an unpublished manuscript of his upcoming book, which is now slated to be released in March. (snip) -- Bolton is naming names - lots of names - and directly contradicting what top administration officials are...

The Gilroy Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying and locating a man accused of trying to kidnap a 2-year-old boy on Saturday. A Gilroy family was shopping at the Gilroy Goodwill when the father realized his 2-year-old son was no where to be seen, police said. He searched the store and found his son holding an adult man's hand, being led away. Advertisement "Let's go buddy," was the phrase the father heard this stranger say to his son as he appeared to lead him away. The father confronted the man and the culprit let go of...

At least eight people have died after an explosive fire broke out along the Tennessee River in Alabama and it could take authorities four days to recover all victims, authorities have said. At least 35 boats docked along the Tennessee River were destroyed by the blaze at Lake Guntersville, Jackson around 12.30am Monday but authorities said divers need to locate each one and search them individually to be sure. All eight people who were earlier reported missing were confirmed dead, later on Monday morning and a local fire chief said 'that number could go up, because we don't know how...