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For the elite left, opposition to gun rights is in part a cultural statement of antipathy to red-state values. Yet a small but important part of the progressive coalition—criminal-defense lawyers—can’t afford to treat gun laws as one more culture-war bludgeon. Hence a remarkable amicus brief by a coalition of defense lawyers for the indigent, led by the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid, asking the Supreme Court to expand gun rights in the Second Amendment case it will decide next term... the brief from the criminal defense lawyers, which includes the Bronx Defenders and the Brooklyn Defender Services, argues against the...

It is much too soon to take a trip in the U.S. without a face mask. As the delta variant of the Covid-19 virus drives up case counts in every state, travelers — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — are encountering local mask mandates for indoor locations in Las Vegas, St. Louis and many other areas around the country. Mask mandates may soon return on the national level, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly examining whether to reinstate mask guidance even for fully vaccinated people in public places. Yesterday, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s...

The loss to France snapped a 25-game Olympic winning streak for Team USA, but this was not an aberration. Australia, which beat the U.S. in an exhibition game last week and clobbered Nigeria in its opener in Tokyo, is better. Spain, which is deep with players who have been part of the last few Olympic cycles, could be better. Slovenia (hello, Luka Doncic) and Argentina might be better.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to launch a communist China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on government-approved choices at the grocery store. The supposedly Conservative government will launch an app by the end of the year to monitor the supermarket spending habits of families in the UK. Those who choose “healthier” options such as fruits and vegetables or engage in exercise will be rewarded with “loyalty points” in the app, which will translate into discounts and other incentives.

The End of MeritOur schools, even without CRT, are failing to prepare students for a skills-based job market.The near hysteria, though justifiable, among conservatives concerning the imposition of racialist Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools fails to address how this theology both reflects and contributes to the “systemic” decline of education itself.Over time, our educational deficit with other countries, notably China, particularly in the acquisition of practical skills in mathematics, engineering medical technology, and management, has grown, threatening our economic and political pre-eminence. Our competitors, whatever their shortcomings, are focused on economic competition and technological supremacy. In math, the OECD’s...

Last Wednesday my wife was complaining of a sore throat and headache. I'd been having trouble sleeping due to my ongoing sinus issues and hadn't really paid much attention to my own headache, but I did notice that my joints were aching, along with some other uncharacteristic pains (gonad, among them). The next day, I noticed my left tonsil (only) was sore, the opposite side of my sinus issues (not related to post nasal drip). Hearing her complaints, the sore throat/headache continued through Friday in me as well. Saturday morning, I awoke with a partially plugged right ear after an...

“Frank Marshall Davis, 81, of Honolulu, died Sunday in Honolulu,” read the obituary in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Davis, who passed away on July 26, 1987, “was a renowned black poet and former newspaperman.” The Kansas State graduate, recipient of a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in poetry, authored “Black Man’s Verse,” and two other widely anthologized volumes of poetry “reprinted in public schools and college textbooks for general use throughout the United States.” Frank Marshall Davis was managing editor of the Atlanta Daily World, executive editor of the Associated Negro Press, and “taught the history of jazz music at the Abraham...

Unlike other religions, declared the nineteenth-century French scholar Ernest Renan, Islam “was born in the full light of history.” Renan’s point, of course, was that whereas, for example, Jesus was unknown during his lifetime to the great world beyond Galilee and Judea, and the story of his life was set down, in various versions, only decades after his crucifixion, Muhammed was in his own lifetime a public figure of unparalleled eminence - the prophet of a new religion, the commander of an army that conquered much of the Arabian peninsula in the name of that religion, and the founder of...

One of the most idiotic of the Left’s assumptions is that sports team nicknames are intended to insult and demean. Many, many years ago, long before any of you who are reading this were born, and long, long before Major League Baseball went woke, pulled the All-Star Game out of Atlanta for not toeing the Left’s line, and made race-baiting Communist agitprop a permanent feature of its website, I learned about a man named Louis Sockalexis. Sockalexis, a great baseball name if there ever was one (later announcers would have loved to report about how he “socked” one into the...

“Liturgy is not a toy of popes; it is the heritage of the Church” — Very strong statement on Traditionis Custodes by Bp. Rob MutsaertsPope Francis promotes synodality: everyone should be able to talk, everyone should be heard. This was hardly the case with his recently published motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, an ukase [imperial edict] that must put an immediate termination on the traditional Latin Mass. In so doing, Francis puts a big bold line through Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict’s motu proprio that gave ample scope to the old Mass.The fact that Francis here uses the word of power without...

PARIS — France's parliament approved a law early Monday requiring special virus passes for all restaurants and domestic travel and mandating vaccinations for all health workers. Both measures have prompted protests and political tensions. President Emmanuel Macron and his government say they are needed to protect vulnerable populations and hospitals as infections rebound and to avoid new lockdowns. The law requires all workers in the health care sector to start getting vaccinated by Sept. 15, or risk suspension. It also requires a "health pass" to enter all restaurants, trains, planes and some other public venues. It initially applies to all...

[H/T Travis McGee]Documents Prove Fauci Knew in 2012 That Vaccines Targeting the Spike Protein Were a Slow Death Sentence Deadly Blood Clots Develop In 62% of People Receiving COVID Vaccine (freeworldnews.tv)Respected international organizations of doctors, physicians, scientists, epidemiologists, virologists, you name it, have formed in the last year and a half all over the world, and they have been reviewing studies going back decades, and current studies, where it was conclusively known in the literature at prestigious FACILITIES like the University of Texas Level 4 Lab in Galveston Texas, by 2012, that if you try to create a vaccine...

Joe Biden experienced another apparent cognitive meltdown Sunday as he waddled toward reporters outside the White House. Biden belligerently screamed a series of words that sounded to many people like he said “My butt’s been wiped.” Enough people heard this that #MyButtsBeenWiped became a Trending Topic on Twitter. If that is indeed what he said, then Biden’s use of the passive voice would suggest that someone else is wiping him, which would suggest that the task falls to a White House staffer. This is just the latest in a series of recent Biden meltdowns. Laurel or Yanny? pic.twitter.com/JwChf7yRNC — Kate...

I am looking at an absolutely gorgeous house in Greenwood, Mississippi. In California this would be a $2vmillion dollar place. It is selling 'as is' for $200K or best offer. I called, the real estate agent said it was in a 'bad area'. It is the former offices of the a garden society, and was in a movie called "The Help" With the right security and many dogs, could this be a good move? Just how bad is it, 2 blocks from downtown? Market street in Greenwood, Mississippi

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Concerns about the fast-spreading COVID-19 Delta variant may be causing consumers to rethink that visit to a summer party, a long-awaited vacation adventure, a walk to the local bar or some new threads for a day back in the office. "Survey data point to increased concern over being in physical locations because of the virus," said Bank of America economists Michelle Meyer and Stephen Juneau in a new piece of research. Thus far, consumer spending has hung tough amidst the surge. BofA's tracking of Google mobility data, air passenger traffic, OpenTable reservations, gasoline demand and box office receipts have continued...

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No one should expect the Chinese Communist Party to cooperate with a real inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. More disappointing is the lack of candor from American scientists and officials whose conflicts of interest deserve more scrutiny. More than a year-and-a-half after Chinese researchers published a draft genome of Covid-19, the world still doesn’t know where the virus came from. The leading theories are an accidental lab leak or zoonotic spillover from a bat or other intermediary species. A World Health Organization team visited Wuhan this year but Chinese officials provided little useful information. Even WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus,...

The United States is currently subject to a sharp political divide between the left and the right, with just around half of the country on each side. The two sides obviously differ in the government policies that they advocate, but there is another difference that I think is even more important. The right, or at least most of it, welcomes differences of opinion, while the left allows no dissent from the orthodoxy of the moment. An op-ed by Ben Shapiro in today’s New York Post provides several notable examples. But this one best illustrates the left/right divide on tolerance of...