This article is part of series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation.[...]
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has a recent history of labeling organizations that don’t advance the political Left’s ideology as “hate groups,” and this week CNN became just the latest news outlet to cite SPLC’s list as fact.[...]
It’s been a couple weeks since I last wrote a PredictIt column, but I assure you I haven’t gone anywhere. If you’re wondering about my last LOCK, check out my column from two weeks ago: the Kelly/Priebus contract still has not been adjudicated by PredictIt, and the contract is still open for trading. I stand by my prediction that PredictIt will rule in favor of the Kelly contract holders, although it remains to be seen when exactly that will happen.[...]
Yesterday, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) pinned this tweet to the head of their Twitter feed:[...]
The far left takes a Marxist interpretation of American history: that America is the most powerful nation on earth because it exploited its own people, plundered and pillaged other countries, and generally cheated its way to the top. They point to the “robber barons” of the late 19th century -- men like Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt, who took the Industrial Revolution to its fullest potential and, though they certainly exploited people along the way, also gave away most of their fortunes to charitable causes. They are messy and complicated figures who did a lot of good, but also a lot of bad to get there.[...]
Last week, the country watched as radical white supremacists clashed with radical ‘ANTIFA’ groups at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. The political and media response provides a perfect example of the dangers of moral relativism and how it has infected political discourse.[...]
We are “on the very verge of the second dark ages,” according to Harper’s Bazaar writer Jennifer Wright, in her recent article entitled "If You Are Married to a Trump Supporter, Divorce Them." With a headline like that, one would hope to find a strictly satirical piece, but instead, Wright leads us on a guided tour of the madness that the Left has lately been buying into.[...]
Racism and racists have been the hue and cry all over the internet since “the Charlottesville Incident.” Words designed to inflame and incite are being lobbed, lines are being drawn, and sides taken. Should confederate monuments be allowed to stand, or should they be torn down? Those who say they should stand are deemed racist -- and, if Black, sell outs. Families are being torn apart and the racial gap widened as acts and threats of violence rule.[...]
The recent death of 77-year-old Judy Dale has sparked controversy regarding California’s recently passed statute legalizing assisted suicide. Dale, a cancer patient, passed away from her illness at home last year after not receiving a prescription for lethal medication that she had allegedly requested for the entirety of her final hospitalization. After her passing, Dale’s children filed a lawsuit alleging elder abuse for her oncologists’ refusal to prescribe life-ending drugs on account of their mother’s pain.[...]
As the political fight over tax cuts ramps up, a new progressive coalition has formed in order “to oppose any effort to cut taxes for the wealthy.” Unfortunately for those enlisting in this new front for the “resistance” movement, the economic arguments put forth by “Not One Penny” make no cents.[...]