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We Can Celebrate Both Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day

Washington Examiner

Judging Columbus through the eyes of 21st-century social justice advocates is unfair. Judging his actions in the context of the 15th century is more honest.  The notion that Native Americans were all living in peace before 1492 is a fanciful myth. Indigenous people were conquering and killing and enslaving and sacrificing each other long before any European settler set foot in North America. 

What’s Happening in Australia Will Happen in the U.S. If We, Too, Lose the Plot

Washington Examiner

To watch what is happening in Australia right now is to watch a once-liberally democratic nation devolve into outright tyranny. Citizens in some areas are being locked inside their homes and monitored by police, and anyone who dares protest the states’ strict coronavirus lockdown measures faces imprisonment, hefty fines, and even brutal physical attacks by law enforcement.

Milley Must Go

Washington Examiner

It was one thing for Milley to secure authority away from the president behind the scenes but within the administration. It’s another thing entirely to pledge a sort of fealty to the world’s worst human rights abuser out of apparent political animus.