Headlines

Ocasio-Cortez raises AIPAC ire over effort to tie the Israeli aid to annexation

Americans will be barred from European travel as the EU gradually reopens its borders

SCOTUS hands major victory to school choice movement

Democrats delete tweet targeting Mount Rushmore over ‘white supremacy’

EU says it’s mulling a coordinated response over Hong Kong

Coronavirus live updates: About 25% of NYC is likely infected, Gottlieb says hot spots spread through the Sun Belt

DOD: No evidence to corroborate NYTimes story claiming Russia put bounties on U.S. soldiers

l.A. County sheriff refuses to enforce beach closure order for July 4th

Republicans have been skipping House intelligence committee meetings for months

Dr.Anthony Fauci says new virus in China has traits of 2009 H1N1 and 1918 pandemic flu

Existing home sales prices rise 4.7% in April (compared to April, 2019)

LAPD morale at ‘record low’: ‘It’s simply not worth it any longer’

Headlines

Trump’s 2020 strategy: A never-ending war with the states

Google, Apple, Amazon and Tesla slam Trump’s immigration crackdown

President heads to Arizona, an emerging presidential battleground ...

Trump: 10-year prison for people attacking statues

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing

Coronavirus update: Tennis great Novak Djokovic tests positive, U. of Michigan won’t host presidential debate

7.4 mag quake Mexico ...

Whistleblower: Claims Chinese Communists pay Vatican $2 billion in bribes

Miami mayor says presidential debate might not have audience

BET founder Robert Johnson urges Black Lives Matter to form own independent political party

Declining dollar could happen at warp speed ...

Nolte: Mount Rushmore doomed to 1619 riots

Erasing History

It seems evolving social norms periodically spawn good-for-nothing nihilists who feel compelled to show their contempt for past wrongs, real or imagined, by destroying any of their vestiges. These history-denying firebrands think that past monuments embody all the evil that current mores condemn ... therefore erasing them becomes a justifiable catharsis ... even though empty-headed ... like what we are currently seeing.

Knowing this trope, monument builders try to thwart future iconoclasts by building their tributes huge (Giza pyramids), high (Washington Monument) or beautiful (Mount Rushmore). Doesn’t always help ... view the above.