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Issue: 912

May 26, 2022

Guest Commentary

We Talk Strangely About Guns

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

We hear a lot of talk about gun rights and gun safety, almost as if guns indeed had rights, almost as if America’s true goal was to keep guns safe.

Whenever there’s a school shooting, you can count on the shooter being denounced as evil, as monstrous, as out of his mind. But the guns the…

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View from the Battlefield

COVID’s Staggering Death Toll

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

COVID-19 is like the dye they inject into your body to show where the problem areas are that need treatment.

My 101-year-old Aunt Snooks died the same day the U.S. hit a COVID milestone: one million humans lives gone. There was more fanfare around auntie’s death…

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Guest Commentary

Tim Scott and Black Conservatives

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

they tell racists what they want to hear as opposed to what they need to hear.

“Hear me clearly, America is not a racist country. I have personally experienced ‘the pain of discrimination’ - being pulled over for no reason and followed…

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Color of Law

Media Coverage of Buffalo Shooting Reflects Racial Bias and Double Standards

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

whiteness is the standard form through which everything flows. Rather than seek objectivity, why don’t we strive to tell the truth and be fair about it?

Media coverage of the Buffalo, N.Y., mass shooting proves that some journalists and reporters cannot handle the truth about racism in America, do not understand what…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Crimes Against Humanity That Should Disgrace Any Nation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

There are vast insidious members, segments, and slices of the White race that haven’t grown, matured, progressed or evolved to the point of being “civilized.”

Embolden: give courage to, make brave/braver, encourage, hearten, strengthen, - stiffen the resolve of, lift the morale of, rouse, stir, stimulate, cheer, rally, give confidence, brace,…

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Guest Commentary

A Future-Crime Memorial Day

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

the major advantage of a future-crime Memorial Day is that we can memorialize more than just people who are about to die.

This Memorial Day, we have a solemn responsibility to glorify participants in wars that will leave no survivors. We should not lightly disregard the longstanding custom…

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