News and Views June 14, 2020

State of Texas delivers powerful warning to protesters wishing to destroy The Alamo
In fact, Bush said that law enforcement has been preemptively deployed to The Alamo to defend it from potentially violent protesters.

Trump admin. reverses Obamacare rule compelling doctors to perform abortions, transgender procedures

Truckers wouldn’t deliver to cities that defund police, poll suggests

The Backlash to Violent Protesters Will Come — We Just Don’t Know What Form It Will Take
"There will be a backlash to these actions, but not in the form of the “white people’s riot” that In Living Color imagined. That backlash may come at the ballot box, or it may come in some other indirect form. Some people aren’t interested in direct confrontation in the streets. They may simply prefer to express their opposition in a way that these protesters expect it least — businesses moving out, reluctance to hire, reluctance to visit a neighborhood, effectively abandoning a community. Not every wall that is built is physical and visible. But one way or another, the reaction is coming."

Ben Carson Cuts To Chase: We Need To Stop Being Offended By Everything, Grow Up It’s Ridiculous
“We’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it,” said Carson.

“We need to move away from being offended by everything, of going through history and looking at everything, you know, of renaming everything.”

“Some of our prestigious universities, have a relationship with the slave trade. Should we go and rename those universities? It really gets to a point of being ridiculous after a while. And, you know, we’re going to have to grow up as a society.”

Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police   What’s wrong with these people? Abusing a child for acts of kindness is just evil. How awful.