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At President Biden’s first hundred days benchmark, one crucial question should be: How is the
GOP doing?
Republican leaders have been anxiously watching their popularity slide as America becomes blacker and browner. Georgia and Virginia, for example, are no longer reliably red states. And Gallup this month concluded that only 25 percent of voters self-identify as Republican (another 15 percent are “leaners”), the party’s worst showing since 2012 and sharply down since November.
Why America Should Focus on Domestic, Not Foreign, Problems
America’s strategic distraction has favored addressing foreign threats and those domestically with a foreign aspect, leaving a wide space for domestic extremism to go unchecked.
IN 1838, Abraham Lincoln observed that any truly existential danger to the United States of America would not come from military threats abroad. Pointing to America’s enviable geographic position, he asked, “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow?” He answered himself with a resounding “Never!” Lincoln’s certainty was rooted in the enormous potential of antebellum America: “the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,” with all the world’s riches and “a Bonaparte for a commander,” could not in one thousand years “take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge.” The real danger came not from abroad but from within. The greatest threats were those, he sa
Florida Opposes Riots, Encourages Vehicle Homicide
April 22, 2021 2:14 PM Bill Wineke, Special to Channel 3000
Posted:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is proud of the legislation he just signed making riots illegal.
Not that riots weren’t illegal before, you understand, it’s just that in Florida now they are truly illegal.
Among other things, the legislation gives immunity to drivers who strike rioters who block a street or highway.
And it defines a “riot” as three or more persons who assist each other in violent or disorderly conduct leading to injury or property damage or the threat of property damage.
Similar bills are being introduced by Republicans in state legislators all over the country.