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  Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history: Goodwin By Michael Goodwin New York Post/Opinion July 12, 2020 More from: Michael Goodwin In a recent article about Mount Rushmore, The New York Times said of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt that “each of these […]

A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor by Joshua T. Katz Princeton University Professor of Classics Quillette July 10, 2020 In Congress, on July 4th, 1776, came the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Signed by 56 men, many of whom were considered national heroes just a few minutes ago, it […]

by Nolan Finley THE DETROIT NEWS July 8, 2020 For a decade, Dan Gilbert has bankrolled downtown Detroit’s revival out of his own wallet, making low-return bets on crumbling buildings that otherwise might have been torn down. It’s an altruistic investment strategy he can indulge because, he told me once in an interview, it’s his […]

Is Hamilton Next? The hit musical, now a movie, celebrates the American Founding so unabashedly that it seems ripe for cancellation. by Kay S. Hymowitz The Social Order/Arts and Culture July 2, 2020 This Independence Day, Disney is giving America a big-ticket birthday gift: the musical Hamilton. After handing over a head-turning $75 million, the […]

WHAT AWAITS THE GOP WHEN TRUMP LOSES BIG-TIME AND TAKES THE U.S. SENATE DOWN WITH HIM? That’s the question posed by longtime legal mastermind Bob LaBrant, who along with former Michigan Gov. John Engler is credited by many with doing more to buttress Republican hegemony in the Great Lakes State over the past four decades […]

Few legal activists have given the Michigan Democratic Party more grief, and more defeats, over the past four decades than Bob LaBrant. For most of this time, LaBrant was Senior Vice President for Political Affairs and General Counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. In his brilliant 2016 book, Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the […]

Sure looks like it. Every political observer knows that Republicans don’t like mail-in voting as opposed to in-place, showing-up-at the-polls on-Election-Day voting. They believe in the original “town square” meme from colonial times, where the enfranchised showed up in public to cast their ballots. But times have changed. Absentee voting has been in the ascendancy […]

Rhode Island Might Be Changing Its Name The nation’s smallest state might not have the longest name anymore Rhode Island wants to make its nickname official Getty Images By Kayla Kibbe Inside Hook/Real Clear Politics June 24, 2020 There’s not much to know about Rhode Island. Having spent the first two decades of my life […]

SportsColumnistsAndrew Gross By Andrew Gross @AGrossNewsday 2020 Belmont Stakes was a wonderful race, but it still comes with an asterisk given circumstances Tiz the Law, Manuel Franco up, breaks from the pack before winning first place during the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, Saturday, June 20, 2020. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost by Andrew Gross NEWSDAY June […]

Defund the Thought Police By Charles Lipson Real Clear Politics Contributor June 24, 2020 Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement. These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, […]