Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Lawrence: ‘Police fear the AR-15’

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the Republican solution to arm teachers against mass shooters would never work after newly released surveillance video from inside Robb Elementary School shows dozens of highly trained, heavily armed officers too scared to confront the gunman with an AR-15 for 77 minutes. WATCH […]

Stanford’s War on Social Life

By Ginevra Davis Palladium JP’s favorite college story is the night he built an island. In the fall of 1993, JP was a junior in Stanford’s chapter of Kappa Alpha. The brothers were winding down from Kappa Alpha’s annual Cabo-themed party on the house lawn. “KAbo” was a […]

The Culture War Between the States

By Steven Malanga City Journal For decades, states have competed with one another for businesses by touting local economic advantages in areas like taxation, development incentives, workforce quality, and regulatory policy. Occasionally, states would also pitch themselves to firms on more general principles like quality of life and […]

Chicago’s 4th of July weekend death toll surpassed the Highland Park shooting. ‘I thought there would be more outcry,’ mother says

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Angela Gregg, center, is consoled by police Cmdr. Roderick Watson and community members during a prayer vigil days after her son, Mychal Moultry Jr., was killed Labor Day weekend last year. (CNN)Angela Gregg’s 4-year-old son, Mychal Moultry Jr., known to loved ones as MJ, […]

Two Americas Index: The post-Roe divide

By Margaret Talev Axios Divisions in U.S. society worsened significantly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to the latest Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index. Why it matters: From December through May, our national survey found a small window in which Americans were feeling more in common […]

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is forced to escape D.C. steakhouse with his security detail after pro-abortion protesters ‘harassed’ him during dinner and told the manager to throw him out

By Dailymail.com Reporter Kavanaugh was eating dinner this week when activists showed up at the venue They told the manager to kick him out, forcing him to escape via the back door Comes amid nationwide fury at the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade  Latest incident against […]

Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball and The RISE of the Anti-WOKE Left – A War Against ‘Identity Politics’

The Western Right-Wing have recently been non-stop complaining about ‘woke’, ‘cancel culture’ and ‘identity politics’ in their fight against the perceived Leftist surge that is undermining Conservative values. However, this isn’t relegated to the Right. Recently, elements of the Left have taken up the war against woke. Kyle […]

Abortion and Democracy in America

By Peter Singer, Project Syndicate In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion, many are speculating about which rights the Court will take away next. In fact, the decision’s rationale for throwing out a half-century of […]

Libertarians Should NOT Support Texan Secession

“Secession is only good when our team does it,” said the special pleaders at C4SS. “As such, this is the distinction between defending the autonomy of territories like the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, Freetown Christiania, and ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes from the states they exist within and supporting the […]

The Meaning Of Patriotism

Well, this article is a lot of neocon drivel. By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish To see what is in front of our noses is a constant challenge, and perhaps never more so in a time of such awful post-truth polarization. But what happened in the January 6 hearings […]

Commonwealth attorneys in Richmond, Henrico pledge not to criminalize abortion if state law changes

Millions of liberals and leftists have jumped on the pan-secessionist bandwagon in the past week. By Mark Bowes Richmond Times-Dispatch Although Virginia’s abortion laws have not changed, elected commonwealth’s attorneys in Richmond and Henrico County preemptively have pledged not to prosecute anyone who receives an abortion or provides […]