Aug 12, 2020
 

Good morning from Washington, where, like so many places, back to school looks a whole lot different. We’ve got advice on some big questions from two health professionals. On the podcast, a public policy leader in Chicago analyzes the spike in violence and looting there. Plus: conservatives unite to defend free speech; the federal government’s role during urban riots; and the racist taint of the left’s Marxism. On this date in 1990, near Faith, South Dakota, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson finds what turns out to be the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered. It’s named Sue, after her.

 
 
 
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By Amy Anderson

Multiple studies from across the world have found consistently that children are at lower risk than adults of contracting the coronavirus, and many nations that have not closed down their schools have found no evidence that children readily spread the virus to one another.
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By Virginia Allen

John Tillman, chairman and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, joins the podcast to offer insight into how the streets of Chicago so quickly fell into chaos, and what must be done to prevent further violence and looting.
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By Fred Lucas

Asserting that cancel culture has put freedom of expression in crisis, a statement initially signed by 45 prominent individuals from universities, think tanks, and other organizations asserts that expressing “ideas we find offensive is not an act of ‘violence.’”
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By Mike Howell

Critics of the president who claim the federal response represents unprecedented mission creep are sorely mistaken.
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By Walter E. Williams

What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.
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By Cal Thomas

Many Democrats claim the fear over mail-in ballots is misplaced, but the evidence proves otherwise.
 
     
 
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