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In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide... In any case, using the Holocaust to “sensitize students to the evils of bigotry, intolerance, and oppression” doesn’t seem like an unreasonable idea. How can anyone be against a universal message that fights hate and intolerance? The problem is that when you get too general and universal, it’s hard to remember anything. Everything becomes hazy. The teaching and the...

Holocaust Education Won’t Succeed Without Storytelling Since Holocaust Remembrance Day falls this week, it’s a good time to remember a timeless truth: Nothing sticks to the memory like human stories. David Suissa is President of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Su...

Historic Figures Who Recognized That Speech Is Freedom’s First Line of Defense “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.” It’s a sad, tragic, and shocking commentary on what some parents and many schools are teaching these days that Douglass’s statement might not meet with majority approval in America. Recent...

INAS INSIGHTS: A look at the United States election of 1876 Ina Michele Resnikoff / Columnist The Boston Globe’s columnist, Jeff Jacoby, is an excellent writer but generally much too conservative for me.  On Valentine’s Day, he published a heartwarming article about our 19th president , Rutherford Hayes. I like to think that as a student of American history, I know enough about the past to inform my current analyses of the events and ideas that shape our todays. But ….  Jacoby ...

This has become the norm in American politics, and it should disturb anyone who values representative government and constitutional order.

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Will The Supreme Court Limit Tax Imperialism?  Share   Share Trending For example, the Court engaged in tortured reasoning to rule in favor of Obamacare even though there’s nothing in Article 1, Section 8, that gives Washington the power to mandate the purchase of health insurance (though that awful decision by Chief Justice John Roberts looks brilliant compared to the even-worse 1942 decision that gave Washington the power to control whether a farmer could grow grain on his own farm to...

« We saw on Jan. 6 where weak and ineffective government will lead us. »

By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror When demand soared for N-95 masks and nitrile gloves last year, so did prices. Hartford HealthCare, the owner of seven acute-care hospitals, saw a seven-fold jump in spending on personal protective equipment, from about $400,000 to $3 million.  Were suppliers simply obeying the laws of supply and demand, or were they committing price gouging in the midst of a pandemic?  Attorney General William Tong and legislators said Wednesday that Connecticut’s...

(AP Photo by Jim Salter) Freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-BLM) is already earning her chops as a member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-Clueless) “Squad” — in “splendid” fashion. Before we get to Bush’s latest effort, the following promo tells you all you need to know about Cori Bush. The Black Lives Matter organizer, who marched in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the legal police-shooting of Michael Brown, is scheduled to sit down with the geniuses of “The View�...