#118801

Call Evil by Its Name

Submitted 6 years ago by ActRight Community

Charles Manson was the devil. The sentence is not ironic or a figure of speech: the murderer, who died in a California prison this past weekend after completing some 40 years of 12 consecutive life terms, was a personification of evil. It can be argued that many of our contemporaries have difficulty grasping the concept of evil, and they have difficulty with the reality of evil, even when it stares them in the face. This was not so with Manson and his gang, who committed gruesome and shocking crimes. Our laws, our mores, our chatter, however, reflect an unease with
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#118802
A customer who shot two armed men intent on robbing a 7-Eleven in Virginia Beach is being hailed as a good guy with a gun.
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#118803
...res ipsa loquitor...
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#118804
Judges appointed by former President Trump have stymied President Biden's policies on multiple fronts in the early months of the new administration, taking what experts say is a less "deferential" approach to executive power as judges appointed by past presidents.
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#118805
The Biden administration continued its crusade against Big Meat this week with the unveiling of new rules designed to lower prices and spur more competition within the industry.
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#118806
A proposed new law could send you to prison for a year.
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#118807
President Donald Trump announced on July 27 that his administration may declare the far-left extremi...
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#118808
...raises questions about whether Toutiao algorithms work similarly at ByteDance’s most widely-used app internationally, TikTok...
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#118809
President Joe Biden again ordered airstrikes in Syria on Sunday, the second time he has done so in his young presidency.
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#118810
A Florida mother has been arrested on multiple charges after her 2-year-old son shot and killed his father, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office.
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#118811
Cognitive disorders of college students
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#118812
After rejecting a Christian man over his views on premarital sex and rejecting another man with whom she had sex four times, Hannah Brown came away somewhat empty-handed during the season finale for "The Bachelorette" on Tuesday night when she called off her engagement with contestant Jed Wyatt a
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#118813
FILE – This June 11, 2012 file photo shows former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward speaking during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Watergate in Washington. Woodward says top staffers in President Donald Trump’s administration “are not telling the truth” when they deny incendiary quotes about Trump attributed to them in his new book. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file) Where were you February 7th? | Read More »
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#118814
Republican California gubernatorial candidate Kevin Faulconer unveiled his plan to fix the state's homelessness crisis Tuesday.
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#118815
A former congressman from Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to charges related to fraudulently stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates between 2014 and 2018.
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#118816
In a world in which military power is heavily concentrated in Western states, especially America, which have professed a post-World War II international consciousness that ostensibly prioritizes action against unchecked sovereignty—and its ultimate excess, genocide—there is a belief that the cries of the suffering can rise through the apparatus built on that consciousness, and reach …
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#118817
Haim Saban, the media billionaire who is a fixture in Democratic Party fundraising, is organizing a $500,000-per-person fundraiser for Joe Biden next Monday. Saban has long said he is “a one-…
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#118818
Commentary “I want to be clear on this, our goal is not to hold China back,” said U.S. Secretary of ...
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#118820
Bannon is targeting Republican incumbents in 2018 primaries to undermine support for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Hatch, a...
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#118821
The progress of Western civilization is a direct result of its openness to self-criticism and its confidence that our aspirational principles are just.
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#118822
"Our local district attorneys should take this very seriously and I would suggest they should endeavor to prosecute those who are behind this," says Nick LaLota, Suffolk County elections commissioner, who received an application dated Sept. 4 from a person who died in June
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#118823
Rep. Matt Gaetz has picked up some powerful allies in a demand for an inspector general’s probe of allegations that the intelligence community is spying
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#118824
A drag queen known as "Lil Miss Hot Mess" has authored two children's books that swap the lyrics of well-known songs for words that focus on drag.A book released last month titled, "If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It," replaces the standard lyrics of the familiar tune "If You're Happy and You Kn...
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#118825
A New York Times article made it appear as though Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was going to be Brutus to Trump’s Caesar.
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