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I’m a first-generation, 17-year-old Black American who grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Brooklyn neighborhood made famous by Jay-Z. Given that brief biography, perhaps you’d assume that I’m a Black Lives Matter slogan-chanting, capitalism-chastising teen activist. Or that I’m an at-risk youth, destined for dropping out or incarceration. You’d be wrong on both counts. I’m a religious Christian and political conservative with an after-school job as a dishwasher at Panera: three things that, if we’re to believe the statistics about Gen Z, make me an outlier. One thing the studies definitely get right: my peers and I are online all the...

A funny story I would like to share with you all..... We had Thanksgiving at my grandmother's.... very traditional southern Thanksgiving with more food than an army can eat. Per tradition, all the children's names were put into a hat and drawn for gifts at Christmas. They write their name and what they would like below their name. "barbie"... "monster truck"... whatever. My little nephew who is 11 years old wrote "ammo". Well his mother told him that wasn't good enough so he fixed it and wrote "22 ammo". You can imagine his mother is getting irritated so she tells...

I CALLED UP Brian Anderson yesterday to ask him a few questions about his forthcoming book, South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias.Anderson is a senior editor at City Journal. He's typical of an increasingly influential type of journalist, the full-time, on-staff, journal journalist who, paid by a think tank like the Manhattan Institute or the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has the time and space to work on policy articles for months at a time before having to pull the trigger on a finished piece. The result is a densely fortified style of reporting and argumentation that...

A high school student nails it on the head in an Op-Ed in our local newspaper: Over the past four years the world has witnessed the liberation of 53,400,526 people. They were not liberated through peace protests, European elitism or stern warnings; those solutions kept them in chains. Nor were they liberated by a UN administered sanctions program – that solution only served to permit Sadaam to line the pockets of French and other “allies” on the UN Security Council. Freedom came from the heroism, blood and sacrifice of America. The attacks of September 11th proved to the world that...