by Robert J. Delahunty, John Yoovia National Review
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Today’s State Department report on inalienable rights may mark a turning point in the long debate over whether the United States should emphasize power politics or human rights in world affairs.
On July 9, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision McGirt v. Oklahoma, a case to determine whether Oklahoma or the federal government had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a tribal member. Oklahoma contended that it had jurisdiction because the Muskogee (Creek) Reservation, where the rape took place, had long since ceased to exist.
Due to government orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 80 million U.S. students were out of school in 2020. Nationwide, school closures affected nearly all of the nation’s public and private schools.
The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni’s life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be—that he in fact was—an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images—visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw.
The importance of remittance flows to low and middle income countries is the subject of an important recent tweet from William Easterly @bill_easterly. His tweet includes this amazing chart: What is most striking about the chart is the sharp increase in remittance flows around 2002 and 2003. But why?
The US economy is reeling in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and all lockdown exit strategies have implications. Business and government are faced with some stark choices.
Under the terms of my contract with the Wall Street Journal, I’m now allowed to post my whole June 16 article, co-authored with Jonathan Lipow. Here it is.
Florida is a red-hot COVID zone, Texas is on a one-way ride up the infection escalator and California is reversing course after early lockdown success. Together, these three states make up 20 percent of all new global coronavirus cases. The United States is a pandemic-policy mess, and the whole world is watching the meltdown.
Hoover Institution Victor Davis Hanson discusses corporations like Fortune 500 companies and the NFL getting involved in social issues like the Black Lives Matter movement.
"There is no science behind having children not attend schools," says Stanford's Dr. Scott Atlas. "Cases in low-risk populations (is) exactly how we are going to get herd immunity, population immunity, when low risk people with no significant problem handling the virus, which is basically 99% of people, get this and they become immune and they block the pathways of connectivity to more contagious, older, sicker people," he said.
Feminist and human rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali issued a vocal condemnation of the Black Lives Matter orthodoxy behind the deadly George Floyd riots and the burgeoning cancel culture. A victim of forced marriage and female genital mutilation in her youth, Hirsi Ali has vocally opposed radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires. She accused the cancel culture radicals of becoming “censorship terrorists,” a threat to America’s “open society.”
Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday said the government should focus on spending on profitable firms, which have been incurring costs but have not earned revenues in the last four months.
For the record: “If the multibillion-dollar NFL decides that multimillionaire players have no obligation to stand to honor a collective national anthem, and that there will be separate anthems and politicized uniforms, then millions of Americans will quietly shrug and change the channel. And that silent protest will make the 2016-17 anthem protest look like child’s play.” —Victor Davis Hanson
Walmart and Sam’s Club to require customers to wear masks; Shutdowns didn’t work but the Left wants to do them again for political reasons; Dr. Scott Atlas advocates sending kids back to school; America is the only country not opening schools
“The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.” —Thomas Sowell.
mentioning Terry M. Moevia Inside Higher Education
Friday, July 17, 2020
A recent political ad features a voter looking back fondly on a time before bipartisan cooperation vanished from Washington, D.C. The sentiment is hardly unusual, although it was strange to learn that the voter had 2014 in mind. To each their own golden age. Someday people will even feel nostalgia for this, the weirdest of all presidential election years.
