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Save America's Workers from the Church of Wokeness | Opinion Vivek Ramaswamy , Entrepreneur and Author On 3/4/21 at 6:00 AM EST Woke corporations in America today think they can fire employees for their politics without legal liability. They're mistaken. Last month, Disney fired actress Gina Carano after she compared Nazi persecution of Jews to the persecution of conservatives in America today on social media. The company called her post "abhorrent and unacceptable," declining to explain why her co-star Pedro Pascal remains employed despite his own posts comparing Trump sup...

As I write this, President-Elect Joe Biden has not received his first White House security briefing. When you read these words, Biden will be the president—which will leave many atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, and freethinkers little short of ecstatic. But not so fast. For all that a Biden administration will mark a huge step toward normalcy after the chaos, cruelty, and willful ignorance of the Trump years, secular Americans may yet find President Biden a (pardon the expression) mixed blessing. A devout Roman Catholic, Biden delivered an acceptance speech steeped in religious langu...

He continued: “Our forefathers, seeking refuge from religious persecution, believed in the eternal truth that freedom is not a gift from the government, but a sacred right from Almighty God. On the coattails of the American Revolution, on January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom … This seminal bill, penned by Thomas Jefferson, states that, ‘all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacit...

( ThyBlackMan.com) It was recently (falsely) reported that in a closed-door meeting of the nine justices of the Supreme Court about the Texas lawsuit against election fraud, Chief Justice John Roberts was heard screaming profanities about President Trump and refusing to consider the Trump-favoring precedent of Bush v. Gore as he browbeat the group into rejecting the case. His justification, as supposedly overheard by a whistle-blowing staffer in the outer room, was that the Bush v. Gore contest was not attended by rioting, while this one is. While this story was factually false, it rings true...