| | Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump’s decision to send federal law enforcement to help quell the violence in some cities apparently set Democrats’ hair on fire. Fred Lucas reports. What goes on in Portland, Oregon? Lora Ries has answers. On the podcast, veteran Hong Kong watcher Mike Gonzalez assesses China’s suppression of freedom there. Plus: two takes on the meaning of the turmoil in America’s cities; the U.S. kicks China out of Houston; and vandals aren’t sparing churches. On this date in 1915, more than 800 drown when the steamer Eastland capsizes in the Chicago River on the way to a picnic. Enjoy the weekend. | |
| | | | | | | | | By Fred Lucas
Some elected Democrats have vowed to sue and even arrest federal agents as they criticize federal action to protect federal property in Portland, Oregon.
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| | | | | | | By Victor Davis Hanson
America is far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted, and vulnerable target than it was in 1965.
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| | | | | | | By Dean Cheng
The real core of the issue is Chinese espionage. Broadly speaking, there is little question that this is going on. The Trump administration has provided ample evidence of the scale of Chinese espionage against the United States.
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| | | | | | | By Lora Ries
The rioters are premeditated criminals who have been bringing dangerous weapons to the U.S. courthouse each night and using them against federal officers. These include lasers aimed at officers’ eyes, pipes, pipe bombs, sledgehammers, baseball bats, and glass bottles.
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| | | | | | | By Rachel del Guidice
“Communism is always ruthless because it violates the common humanity of people and violates a natural law. So to do that, it must use coercion and violence, and it does so inexorably,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez.
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| | | | | | | By Kay C. James
All around us, the forces of socialism, Marxism, and anarchy are waging a war against democracy and the moral legitimacy of the great American experiment.
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| | | | | | | By Rachel del Guidice
A vandal or vandals painted a satanic symbol on a door at St. Joseph Catholic Church in New Haven, Connecticut.
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