As the right gets serious about illegal immigration, the left goes to new rhetorical extremes.

Powerhouse women hit the stage at the fourth KPMG Women’s Leadership Summit in Kildeer on Wednesday, with messages of empowerment and paying it forward for the next generation of women in every facet, from sports to politics.

For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Americans is entirely wrong. Dr. Shelby Steele, a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, said: “Instead of admitting that racism has declined, we (blacks) argue all the harder that it is still alive and more insidious than ever. We hold race up to shield us from what we do not want to see in ourselves.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the SPLC.