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from Forbes
Some 58% of registered voters polled by Morning Consult support the deployment of the military to aid police responding to protests, with 33% of the 1,624 respondents saying they’d “strongly support” it and only 30% opposing. The proposition was more popular among older voters, whites and conservatives, with 75% of self-identified conservatives, 68% of voters over the age of 65 and 60% of white voters saying they’d either strongly support or somewhat support sending in the military. But the poll showed a large chunk of voters usually associated with the Democratic Party also are open to deploying troops, with 43% of voters under 34, 40% of self-identified “liberals” and 37% of African-Americans saying they’d support sending in the military to help police.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.
As we consider what actions to take regarding Communist China, we must keep in mind what kind of government we are dealing with. It is a totalitarian regime that knows only one rule, articulated by its still-revered leader, Mao Zedong, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Light a candle with us as we vow that we will never forget the ultimate sacrifice that the students of Tiananmen Square made for freedom and democracy.
The Black Sea has long been a geopolitically and economically important crossroads between Europe, Asia, and the Caucasus. The goal is to increase NATO’s presence in the Black Sea to deter, and if required defeat, Russian aggression. Until NATO starts thinking creatively about complex challenges like increasing its presence in the Black Sea, Russia will continue to have the upper hand.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The old cracker barrel wisdom inside the Beltway (if there had been a country store inside the Beltway) used to be “This is a Presidential Election Year, so don’t believe anything you hear.” What we’ve been hearing recently are media spats about U.S-China immoral equivalency that could produce “a new Cold War.” Don’t believe it. Presidential year politics has Trump shaping his re-election around “I’m tough on China; Biden is soft”. The New York Times has rushed to suggest that China-bashing means you are pro-Trump. An NYT op-ed (May 20) by vice presidential candidate hopeful Susan Rice spells it out: “Trump Plays the China Card: Who Believes Him?” So what is really going on with the PRC?
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
Two models suggest that broad restrictions had less impact on the epidemic than commonly thought.
States began lifting their COVID-19 lockdowns more than a month ago, and so far the results have not been nearly as disastrous as many people predicted. By and large, according to estimates by two teams of researchers, virus transmission in Florida, Georgia, and Texas—three states with large populations that loosened their restrictions at the end of April—has either declined, stayed about the same, or risen slightly since then. Those numbers reinforce other evidence that broad business closure and stay-at-home orders deserve less credit for curtailing the epidemic than they commonly receive.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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