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Dixie Lewis and her boyfriend Ross Schultz, 20, were killed in a crash near Truckee, California, on May 25, when their car struck a Freightliner semi head on.
Are Face-Masks The New Condoms? Some thoughts on plagues, rationality and recovery. Plagues are not terribly well known for spawning outbreaks of rationality. And their reputation in 2021, I think we can safely say, is intact. We’d love to believe that in the modern era we have overcome superstition or false panic or misplaced fear, and now “trust science”. But look around you. We’ve gotten a lot of things wrong over the last year or so, as well as several big things right, and no doubt a whole crew of Captain Hindsights will eventually emerge to pore over the data. Did shutdowns work...
The Weekly Dish There is a compromise available. Here's one version. If we were going to construct a test-case for how dysfunctional our politics have become, it would be hard to beat the transgender issue. It profoundly affects a relatively minuscule number of people in the grand scheme of things, and yet galvanizes countless more for culture war purposes. It has become a litmus test for social justice campaigners, who regard anyone proposing even the slightest qualifications on the question as indistinguishable from a Klan member. It has seized the attention of some of the most extreme elem...
Senior policy analyst at the Independent Women's Forum Patrice Onwuka weighs in on 'Fox & Friends First.' Former New York Magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan blasted The New York Times for its characterization of the violence that took place last year following the death of George Floyd in an attempt to separate the riots that took place on Capitol Hill earlier this month. In a piece published on Sunday, Times national political reporter Astead Herndon accused Republicans of "warping reality" with their response to the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol building as Congress was voti...
Best of 2020: Immigration Reads You May Have Missed by Andrew Good As the curtain closes on 2020, the NumbersUSA staff who work as part of the Media Standards Project have each pulled together a list of 10 noteworthy media items* from the year that advanced a healthy, civil, productive conversation on immigration-related issues. These pundits and reporters provided their consumers with high-quality commentary and information, allowing the space to explore nuances, trade-offs, and policy prescriptions with intellectual integrity. It is an encouraging fact that there were a number of pieces ...