Think of George Washington warning against foreign “attachments.” And of the the isolationism that delayed U.S. entry into two world wars.
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History has frequently conspired to show us the folly of believing we can wall ourselves off from the world’s woes. He's just "passionate" on the issue of poverty, he said. Period. Take it as proof that Disney was right.President Trump said he was befuddled that people look up to Dr. Anthony Fauci but that “nobody likes me.” He said it’s his personality. And of Trump abusing allies and immigrants under the rubric “America First.”Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. Oh, and Trump himself, that renowned scientist, says the sunshine of April will kill it, a prediction with which none of his fellow epidemiologists seems to concur. Indeed, in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the question of when and how the nation’s economy should … But last week, it happened on America's front porch.sltrib.com © 1996-2020 The Salt Lake Tribune. Sadly, it happens all the time, happens everywhere. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I find Leonard Pitts's extreme left-wing opinion pieces hyperbolic and reactionary. He accosted Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and told her she was "disgusting" for having linked a spike in crime to poverty and unemployment. There’s ample blame to go around in teen’s COVID-19 death From the Left / Leonard Pitts Jr. / Jul 12, 2020 A few words on the death of Carsyn Leigh Davis.
For some reason, she is the hornet's nest Republicans cannot stop themselves from poking, even though they end up stung to pieces every time. He later offered an apology that wasn't, expressing contrition for his "abrupt manner." I am often asked by readers interested in gaining a better basic understanding of racial issues and/or African-American history if I will compile a reading list for them. As reported by NPR, it briefly pierced the Top 10 list of iTunes downloads earlier this month and the number of Google searches for the film recently spiked. Meaning the idea that America is — or can be or ought to be — a fortress, safe from any virus (or refugee, economic downturn, environmental impact) that seeks entry here. And I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable." That was the tagline of “Contagion,” a 2011 movie in which the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Damon and Kate Winslet contend with a mysterious virus that soon decimates the globe. “I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter,” the 30-year-old legislator said. He had been her friend for seven years, but he didn't like when she was put in charge of the percussion section in their marching band. The offensive name-calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues and if they were construed that way, I apologize for the misunderstanding." Leonard Pitts: There’s ample blame to go around in teen’s COVID-19 death And it was revealing, testament to a failure of self-awareness more epic than Greek tragedy. Maybe you forget to be shocked. He didn't like her T-shirt. As these two pontificate nonsense, it’s worth noting the disease has already turned up in Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Washington and California — and that Trump is calling for drastic cuts in funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Sign up for one of our many newsletters to be the first to know when big news breaksYet, for as much as this outbreak exposes the routine foolishness of what now passes for conservatism, it also serves as a reminder — and rebuke — of a strain of American thought bound to no ideology. What must it be like when that contempt is your everyday, when the threat of violent action simmering behind violent words becomes your ordinary? It’s a childish conceit.The activist Martin Luther King said, “All life is interrelated.”The composers Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie said, “We are the world.”Yet periodically America indulges the idea that we can somehow disengage from the rest of the planet. Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. Half of us know all too well. Suddenly, “Contagion” is back.
What came next was a reflection of male entitlement: our weakness, our brittle egos, our refusal to hold ourselves to account. “I am someone’s daughter, too. She called him rude and walked away.