We hear it in the news a lot these days, the idea that we all need safe spaces from me in words,tr trigger warnings and opeds that might constitute a microaggression. This is the language of the campus social justice seminar but increasingly its the language of our workplace and our culture. Besides just last weeks. At the news york times. I published an oped there that said simply while we respect Peaceful Protesters we have zero tolerance to looting and rioting. If the police are overwhelmed or outnumbered the National Guard and if necessary the federal troops have to restore order. That p support from a large majority of americans if you look at the polls. The Editorial Page Editor admitted publicly, the publisher defended the decision publicly rosethe news york times up and amended the oped be taken down. They demanded the grownups or i should say the suppose the grownups did run the news york times apologize and thats exactly what happened. What could only be called a struggle ses
Side. But, us know, history is not the long suit. Of these woke children. They didnt take history classes apparent lit in high school and college. They were too busy taking social justice seminars. You can see tt too in philadelphia. The statue of matias baldwin. He was a committed and devoted abolitionist who funded education for freed African Americans, who gave them jobs, and they defaced his statue. Even more amazing, in boston the shaw memorial was defaced. The shaw memorial honors the 54th massachusetts regiment, the first African American regiment formed after the emancipation proclamation. Whose braver and battle on behalf of the union cause was memorialized in the movie glory. Yet it was defaced by these mobs. Not just our history. Its pop culture and entertainment too. You may have seen the news that live p. D. And cops Television Shows canceled. Paw patrol was on the cutting board too. You may know that chase is the police cop. Theres call to euthanize the police dog on soci
Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight [ cheers and applause in that case, lets get to the news House Speaker nancy pelosi appeared to give a sarcastic clap at President Trump during part of last nights state of the union when trump tried to denounce division and politics i mean, look at that [ laughter ] thats the way you clap when your husband finally puts the toilet paper on the roller [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause you learn look at you President Trump today attended a dinner with the host of the National Prayer breakfast. Of course, for trump, every breakfast is a prayer breakfast. [ laughter ] please, lord, let there be pancakes. [ laughter ] officials in boston are saying 12 people were arrested yesterday during the new England Patriots victory parade. So at least it was more exciting than the game. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause new yorks l train connecting manhattan and brooklyn was shut down temporarily yesterday after pa
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Region, his efforts to make a significant strike against americans. Weve been planning for this and we were prepared. Paul Mark Dubowitz, chief executive for the defense of democracy. Welcome. Good do see you again. I was reading your twitter feed and i notice that you were saying that this killing of soleimani may be more significant even than the killing of osama bin laden. How so . Qasem soleimani for 23 years has dominated the middle east. If you can imagine combination of our joint special Operations Commander with our joint chiefs of staff with our cia director and our foreign minister or secretary of state, you roll that into one man and thats qasem soleimani. Paul he had that much influence . Huge influence. Huge yopower. Huge power. Really somebody to be admired for his prowess and operational capacity as well as his tactical brilliance. He really has created enormous difficulties for u. S. Interests, as secretary pompeo said, he has american blood on his hands as well as the