by Andrew C. McCarthy If you did not watch the Derek Chauvin trial, but only heard the inflammatory comments spewing out of the White House and the media-Democrat complex, there are things about it you would never know. And you’d be apt to believe the claims that American law enforcement is systemically racist. I watched the trial…
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Derek Chauvin’s Slow Motion Guilty Plea
by George Parry The accused’s presumption of innocence is a sacrosanct principle of our jurisprudence. But, as a practical matter in criminal jury trials, it’s a complete fiction. Despite the judge’s stern instructions about the presumption of innocence and the prosecutor’s unshifting burden to prove each and every element of the crime charged, most jurors…
These Robotically Similar Reactions To The Derek Chauvin Verdict Will Inspire You
by Michael Tracey You probably have noticed that corporations, academic institutions, elected officials, and virtually everyone else with a public-facing profile is extraordinarily passionate about “the work” of rectifying racial injustice in the United States. Often their passion compels them to recite almost the exact same words and phrases in response to current events, such…
Vaccine-Hesitant Americans Aren’t Ignorant Rubes, They’re Understandably Cautious
by John Davidson Recent polls show about a quarter of American adults either don’t plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine or want to wait on it. The numbers have held steady for months: 27 percent in a recent Quinnipiac poll, 25 percent in an NPR/Marist poll from late March, and 30 percent in a Pew survey from mid-February. After…
The Liberty Café 35: The Judas Economy
Corporate cronyism is one of the major threats to liberty in the world today. This was also the case back in first century Jerusalem, as the ruling class in Jerusalem joined with their Roman overlords to exploit the local Jewish population. In Episode 35 of the Liberty Café, we look at what Jesus had to…
Texas Leaders Spending Big $ in House and Senate Budgets
The budgets being considered by the Texas Senate and Texas House may look fiscally conservative on their face. However, once you look at the details, it is clear these budgets will continue the recent trend of the Texas Legislature significantly increasing state spending while manipulating the data in various ways in order to pretend otherwise….
Adding ‘unreliable’ wind, solar is ‘at the expense of the reliables’
By Juliette Fairley. Houston Republic Taxpayer subsidies paid to wind and solar developers contributed to the grid nearing emergency conditions this week, according to an oil and gas expert. “That’s part of it,” Robert Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said. “We get a lot of generation we don’t need just because…
Jesus Warns of the Consequences of Corporate Welfare
“What the Gospel accounts showed was a Jesus who was very concerned about economic exploitation, but whose economic denunciations were not broad, to-whom-it-may-concern condemnations of all wealth. Instead, He directed His denunciations in very specific geographical and socioeconomic ways, aiming His barbs at the exploitative members of the ruling class. A close and careful reading…
Texas was once again at the mercy of wind generation – and it did not come through
Karla Florez – Austin News Earlier this week, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, came close to declaring “emergency conditions” after approximately 25% of its capacity was shut off to undergo maintenance. “Alert: Due to a combination of high-gen outages typical in April & higher-than-forecasted demand caused by a…
The PCA Has Fallen into Error, and Can’t Get Back Up: Part 2-Racism
Just like the 1980’s era TV commercial picturing senior citizens struggling after fall and unable to get up to call for help, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), like all churches, struggles to address the cultural issues facing our country today. In this series, I am providing a brief history of the errors of the…