Aug 11, 2020
 

Good morning from Washington, one place where two writers are driving the “woke” conversation about “anti-racism” that threatens to go mainstream. Our Jarrett Stepman has what you should know. President Trump appears unflappable as a shooting interrupts his briefing, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, “America on Trial” author Robert Reilly defends the Founding Fathers. Plus: a top homeland security official denounces liberal pols and the media over urban violence; why suspending the payroll tax isn’t the way to go; and sex ed that should horrify parents. On this date in 1965, the mostly black Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles explodes into five days of riots after two white police officers scuffle with a suspected drunk driver who is black.

 
 
 
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By Jarrett Stepman

Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” and Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist,” are shaping the modern discussion over “wokeness” and the ideas that are becoming politically mainstream, at least on the American left.
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By Jarrett Stepman

Robert R. Reilly, author of "America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding,” discusses the deeper origins of the American Revolution—rooted in Western thought, philosophy, and religion—and explains why the nation’s survival depends on embracing those ideas.
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By Joel Griffith

President Trump’s new executive order, which suspends the employee portion of Social Security payroll taxes for the rest of the year, is legally dubious and unlikely to turn around the economy.
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By Fred Lucas

“There was a shooting outside of the White House, and it seems to be very well under control,” President Trump tells reporters. “I’d like to thank the Secret Service for doing their always quick and very effective work.”
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By Douglas Blair

“Our new visiting scholars will continue to forge successes for American values by highlighting the importance of individual sovereignty, equal opportunity, limited constitutional government, and economic freedom,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Angela Sailor.
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By Fred Lucas

“This is really about politics over public safety,” Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, says during a virtual event held by The Heritage Foundation. “This is really about trying to score political points rather than giving the American people the truth.”
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By Sharon Slater

Systematic sexual indoctrination would be a good description of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education programs being dished up to children in countries as diverse as Namibia, Nepal, and Nauru, and in U.S. states from Montana to Michigan to Maine.
 
     
 
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