For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time. Donald Trump Truth Social Post 09:27 PM EST 02/09/25

Richard Gere calls Trump and Musk a ‘danger’ to ‘this planet.’ “The fact that these irresponsible and perhaps dangerously corrosive billionaires are running everything in America right now is a danger for everyone on this planet.”

Yes there should be consequences for racist behavior. But cancellation should be the last one. It doesn’t heal racists, it just hides them. It makes you feel righteous, but it’s not effective.

Thomas Sowell deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, if for only one reason: his courage. I had a front row seat in the late 1980’s culture wars and saw how vicious the liberal response to my father, Shelby Steele, was when he spoke his mind freely. He was told he wasn’t black, was called a race traitor, and lost everything from job to friends. Though Sowell is too much of a man to dwell on these things, he suffered them as well in his own way. Yet he persevered like a warrior made stronger by battle. When Sowell first reached out to my father in 1990 or so and we had dinner at his house, it was like courage uniting with courage. Aside from my father, Sowell was the first man I met who didn’t give a F about anything but truth. He just didn’t. When they talked, Sowell’s facts and reasoning blended in with my father’s psychological and cultural insights to paint a picture as complete as could be. Unlike with others, there were no ideological constraints to their conversations and I always admired Sowell’s humanistic approach to his vast wealth of knowledge. He is always humble. He came up from nothing and emerged from white oppression to reach the top of the intellectual world. He is freedom and he likely won’t care about this call for him to receive this award of freedom because his work alone is his prize. But the call should still be made, if only to say thank you.

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In Britain, grammar schools have been hollowed out; academies are next. Socialism does not accommodate meritocracy or self-initiation: all must bow before the state and remain equal under the state. The dream of every socialist is best described in the utopian novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. @AlanWolan @Miss_Snuffy