| | Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump and others cite science in urging that schools can open safely this fall despite COVID-19. America’s schools surely can do as well as Europe’s in meeting the challenge, Lindsey Burke argues. The government shouldn’t allow employees to support Black Lives Matter on taxpayers’ time, Armstrong Williams writes. On the podcast, we examine the Big Apple’s spike in violent crime. Plus: putting off a higher minimum wage; what’s at stake in preserving a statue of Lincoln; and the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism. Sixty-five years ago today, the Disneyland theme park opens on 160 acres in Anaheim, California. Enjoy the weekend. | |
| | | | | | | | | By Lindsey Burke
Overall, the data suggest that it is rare for children to develop severe symptoms if they contract the coronavirus, and it is rare for them to spread the virus if they do get it.
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| | | | | | | By Armstrong Williams
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel rules that federal workers can show support for Black Lives Matter, and it’s OK for them to raise money for the group as long as they don’t back specific political candidates.
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| | | | | | | By Virginia Allen
The New York City Police Department disbanded its plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit amid calls to defund police agencies in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
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| | | | | | | By Rachel Greszler
With unemployment at 11.1% in June and likely to remain elevated for some time, minimum wage hikes are a recipe for disaster.
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| | | | | | | By Star Parker
Contrary to claims of the dismantlers, the freed slave Archer Alexander is not kneeling in servitude before Lincoln but rather, according to many serious voices in this historic debate, getting up and looking out toward his freedom.
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| | | | | | | By Joel Griffith
The hate-stoking conspiracy theories enthusiastically shared by the actor-comedian are symptomatic of the underlying problem of community and religious leaders and educators who disseminate anti-Semitism behind a veneer of scholarship and theology.
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