close Video America Together - Black History Month - Bishop T.D. Jakes In the human experience, the family is the first form of government, health care, community and early education an individual will encounter. This basic social building block is not a recent product of the Western mind nor is it an insignificant concept to be casually discarded. On the contrary it is mankind’s oldest institution, established at the beginning of time and charged with the essential task or raising progeny with the love and discipline needed to responsibly contribute to the betterment of society. From creation through the millennia this unit of man, woman and child would always be the holistic way that social capital, moral order and ingenuity would be passed to the next generation. It remains the most impactful mechanism by which language, faith and self-concept are imparted to the young and demonstrated by the old. PATRICE ONWUKA: BLACK HISTORY … [Read more...] about Ben Watson: Black History Month – family and faith continue to inspire, sustain African Americans
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Liz Peek: Trump vs. Biden – Greatness and optimism vs. depressing view of America
close Video Trump: Where Biden sees American darkness I see American greatness Democrats are giddy that Joe Biden was able to read a 20-minute speech from a TelePrompter. Imagine setting the bar that low for the guy you hope to elect president of the United States. Biden’s speech concluded a four-day dirge, otherwise known as the Democrat National Convention . From every viewpoint, the undertaking was a bust. Ratings for the evening broadcasts ranged from down 27% to down 9% compared to 2016; the best performance came on the night that Sen. Kamala Harris , D-Calif., spoke. Astonishingly, the last night, when Joe Biden addressed the nation, saw only a 325,000 bump from the preceding evening; in the past three elections, the final night audience surged anywhere from 4.6 to 10.4 million viewers. Uh-oh. KAY COLES JAMES: FIGHT FOR AMERICA – VOTERS MUST DO THIS TO STOP SOCIALISM AND ANARCHY Also, the RealClearPolitics average of … [Read more...] about Liz Peek: Trump vs. Biden – Greatness and optimism vs. depressing view of America
REVEALED: Here Are The Details Of This GOP Lawmaker’s CO2 Tax Bill And Why It’s Likely Doomed To Fail
A Republican lawmaker facing a tough re-election campaign will introduce a bill to replace the federal gas tax with a tax on greenhouse gas emissions from industrial activities, according to plans obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s draft legislation would slap a $23 per ton tax on carbon dioxide emissions on a range of industrial activities, from refining to coal mining, the revenue of which would mostly go towards highway funding. (Here’s A Summary Of Curbelo’s Draft Carbon Tax Legislation) The draft legislation would also direct some funding towards offsetting higher energy costs for poor families, funding global warming adaptation programs and compensating energy workers who lose their jobs. The bill also puts a moratorium on some environmental regulations, though reining in regulations is contingent upon the country meeting emissions reductions goals. (RELATED: TRUMP: Our Biggest Threat Is ‘Nuclear Warming,’ Not Global … [Read more...] about REVEALED: Here Are The Details Of This GOP Lawmaker’s CO2 Tax Bill And Why It’s Likely Doomed To Fail
Vaccination ‘Passports’ May Open Society, but Inequity Looms
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Violet light bathed the club stage as 300 people, masked and socially distanced, erupted in gentle applause. For the first time since the pandemic began, Israeli musician Aviv Geffen stepped to his electric piano and began to play for an audience seated right in front of him. “A miracle is happening here tonight,” Geffen told the crowd. Still, the reanimating experience Monday night above a shopping mall north of Tel Aviv night was not accessible to everyone. Only people displaying a “green passport” that proved they had been vaccinated or had recovered from COVID-19 could get in. The highly controlled concert offered a glimpse of a future that many are longing for after months of COVID-19 restrictions. Governments say getting vaccinated and having proper documentation will smooth the way to travel, entertainment and other social gatherings in a post-pandemic world. But it also raises the prospect of further dividing the world along the lines of wealth and … [Read more...] about Vaccination ‘Passports’ May Open Society, but Inequity Looms
Britain is back in Asia, sending a message to Beijing
This month, Britain and Japan, the two most powerful offshore island nations on the Eurasian continent, undertook to strengthen a special relationship that they established over a century ago. In January 1902, the two countries agreed to a formal alliance, an arrangement whose scope was twice expanded, first in 1905 and again in 1911. The alliance’s objective was clear: They sought to contain Russian expansion in China. The current agreement again focuses on those countries, though it is China, rather than Russia, that the British and Japanese view as the primary threat to their security. The earlier treaties specifically provided for mutual defense, which led to Japan’s entering World War I on the side of the Allies. The current agreement does not go that far, but it does echo similar sentiments. Britain’s foreign and defense secretaries, Dominic Raab and Ben Wallace, and their Japanese counterparts, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, announced … [Read more...] about Britain is back in Asia, sending a message to Beijing