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MEDIA OBSESSION HIDES BLACK SUCCESS
The media frenzy about a purported race “crisis” due to white cops killing young black males ignores basic facts. There is no evidence at all of a dramatic surge in police violence against blacks: Justice Department numbers show a steady average of less than 100 such deaths per year.
Of course, every unnecessary loss is a tragedy, but the obsessive focus on...
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MEDIA OBSESSIONS HIDE BLACK SUCCESS
The media frenzy about a purported race “crisis” due to white cops killing of young black males ignores basic facts. There is no evidence at all of a dramatic surge in police violence against blacks: Justice Department numbers show a steady average of less than 100 such deaths per year.
Of course, every unnecessary loss is a tragedy, but the obsessive focus...
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ONE FORM OF INEQUALITY TO QUICKLY REDUCE
Some measures of racial inequality will be difficult to change but others could improve more readily. For instance, new numbers from Nielsen show most Americans spending far too much time watching TV, but black families facing an especially acute problem.
Overall, Americans devote 5 hours a day to television, but for African Americans the number soars to 7...
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ONE FORM OF INEQUALITY TO QUICKLY REDUCE
Some measures of racial inequality will be difficult to change but others could improve more readily. For instance, new numbers from Nielsen show most Americans spending far too much time watching TV, but black families are facing an especially acute problem.
Overall, Americans devote 5 hours a day to television, but for African Americans the number soars to 7...
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You Can Kill, But Not Murder: The Case for the Ten Commandments
Ask almost anyone to recite the commandment in the Ten Commandments that prohibits taking a life and you will be told, “Thou Shall Not Kill.” That is the King James translation of the sixth commandment. It is a magnificent translation. But this one has led to much moral confusion. Yesterday, PragerUniversity.com, which has had more […]
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Excusing—and Celebrating—Savagery
In efforts to explain the savage, senseless butchery of the Jerusalem synagogue massacre, left-leaning commentators referred to “provocation” and a so-called “cycle of violence” involving both sides. Even the president of the United States strained to sound even-handed in the face of a shameless display of Islamist barbarity. “Too many Israelis have...
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Excusing—and Celebrating—Savagery
In efforts to explain the savage, senseless butchery of the Jerusalem synagogue massacre, left-leaning commentators referred to “provocation” and a so-called “cycle of violence” involving both sides. Even the president of the United States strained to sound even-handed in the face of a shameless display of Islamist barbarity. “Too many Israelis have...
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We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One
As we await protests and riots scheduled for Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere if a grand jury in Missouri does not indict the white officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager, a little moral clarity is called for. For decades now, we have been told that there is a black-white divide in America. […]
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BEWARE THE STATUS QUO
The biggest danger for Republicans on the explosive issue of immigration would be identifying themselves as stubborn defenders of a status quo nobody likes.
Yes, it’s essential to fight back against President Obama’s outrageous power grab in unilaterally declaring executive amnesty for millions. But even if the GOP somehow managed the unlikely feat of...
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BEWARE THE STATUS QUO
President Obama’s proclamation of executive amnesty for illegal immigrants amounts to an outrageous power-grab and sets a dangerous trap for the GOP. Republicans can’t come across as stubborn defenders of the dysfunctional status quo: even if they rolled back every detail of the new White House initiative, our broken immigration system would still need...
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WHEN DISCRIMINATION IS APPROPRIATE
Islamic extremists in Kenya complain about harsh treatment from the government, even as they perpetrate horrific attacks that make such discrimination logical and necessary. In late November, militants fired on a bus with bullets and rocket propelled grenades. They then separated non-Muslim passengers and forced them to lie on the ground, face down. If they...
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WHEN DISCRIMINATION IS APPROPRIATE
Islamic extremists in Kenya complain about harsh treatment from the government, even as they perpetrate horrific attacks that make such discrimination logical and necessary. In late November, militants fired on a bus with bullets and rocket propelled grenades. They then separated non-Muslim passengers and forced them to lie on the ground, face down. If they...
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Message to Senate GOP: Don’t surrender by restoring judicial filibuster
No, no, no, no, no to the idea moving around some Senate GOP circles of “restoring” the judicial filibuster.
First, the GOP senators have to understand that this is not simply an internal matter, a question of the “club’s” agreed-upon rules. It is a issue of incredible and obvious importance to all Americans, not just 100 senators,...
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Message to Senate GOP: Don’t surrender by restoring judicial filibuster
No, no, no, no, no to the idea moving around some Senate GOP circles of “restoring” the judicial filibuster.
First, the GOP senators have to understand that this is not simply an internal matter, a question of the “club’s” agreed-upon rules. It is a issue of incredible and obvious importance to all Americans, not just 100 senators,...
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Message to Senate GOP: Don’t surrender by restoring judicial filibuster
No, no, no, no, no to the idea moving around some Senate GOP circles of “restoring” the judicial filibuster.
First, the GOP senators have to understand that this is not simply an internal matter, a question of the “club’s” agreed-upon rules. It is a issue of incredible and obvious importance to all Americans, not just 100 senators,...
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Message to Senate GOP: Don’t surrender by restoring judicial filibuster
No, no, no, no, no to the idea moving around some Senate GOP circles of “restoring” the judicial filibuster.
First, the GOP senators have to understand that this is not simply an internal matter, a question of the “club’s” agreed-upon rules. It is a issue of incredible and obvious importance to all Americans, not just 100 senators,...
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