thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--BOOM! Senate Judiciary Committee Just Authorized Subpoenas for 50+ Obama Officials (NAMES)

We 're getting closer and closer with each passing day to finally get President Trump some justice in the Russian collusion hoax that the Democrats launched against him under the Obama administration .
Senator Lindsey Graham has received official authorization to issue subpoenas related to the FISA applications and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation .
The committee voted in favor of the authorization in a 12-10 vote .
This means that Sen. Graham can issue subpoenas seeking documents , communications , and testimony from witnesses , including James Comey , Andrew McCabe , James Clapper , John Brennan , Sally Yates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to know why all these counterintelligence investigations were opened to begin with .
I think we need to look long and hard at how these investigations got off the rails , ” said Graham .
“ This Committee is not going to sit on the sidelines and simply move on .
I can assure you we ’ re not going to be deterred . ''
“ If we have to do it by ourselves , we will .
The American people deserve answers to these questions and we intend to get them.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to issue a subpoena for witnesses , documents or other materials .
Documents and communications referenced in , and testimony at a hearing or deposition of any individual named or identified by pseudonym in , the report titled “ Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI ’ s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation ” issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General .
Documents and communications related to , and the testimony at a hearing or deposition of any current or former executive branch official or employee involved in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigations opened under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella ) or the receipt or analysis of reports prepared by Christopher Steele ( commonly referred to as the “ Steele dossier ” ) .
Here are the names of those who subpoenas have or will be issued to :

We're getting closer and closer with each passing day to finally get President Trump some justice in the Russian collusion hoax that the Democrats launched against him under the Obama administration.
Senator Lindsey Graham has received official authorization to issue subpoenas related to the FISA applications and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The committee voted in favor of the authorization in a 12-10 vote.
This means that Sen. Graham can issue subpoenas seeking documents, communications, and testimony from witnesses, including James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, Sally Yates, and others.
"I want to know why all these counterintelligence investigations were opened to begin with. I think we need to look long and hard at how these investigations got off the rails,” said Graham.
“This Committee is not going to sit on the sidelines and simply move on. I can assure you we’re not going to be deterred."
“If we have to do it by ourselves, we will. The American people deserve answers to these questions and we intend to get them.”
Witnesses, documents and materials covered by Graham’s subpoena authorization:
The subpoena authorization gives the Chairman the ability to issue a subpoena for witnesses, documents or other materials.
Documents and communications referenced in, and testimony at a hearing or deposition of any individual named or identified by pseudonym in, the report titled “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General.
Documents and communications related to, and the testimony at a hearing or deposition of any current or former executive branch official or employee involved in, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation (including investigations opened under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella) or the receipt or analysis of reports prepared by Christopher Steele (commonly referred to as the “Steele dossier”).
Here are the names of those who subpoenas have or will be issued to:
Trisha Anderson,
Brian Auten,
James Baker,
William Barr,
Dana Boente,
Jennifer Boone,
John Brennan,
James Clapper,
Kevin Clinesmith,
James Comey,
Patrick Conlon,
Michael Dempsey,
Stuart Evans,
Tashina Gauhar,
Carl Ghattas,
Curtis Heide,
Kathleen Kavalec,
David Laufman,
Stephen Laycock,
Jacob Lew,
Loretta Lynch,
Andrew McCabe,
Mary McCord,
Denis McDonough,
Arthur McGlynn,
Jonathan Moffa,
Sally Moyer,
Mike Neufield,
Sean Newell,
Victoria Nuland,
Bruce Ohr,
Nellie Ohr,
Stephanie L. O’Sullivan,
Lisa Page,
Joseph Pientka,
John Podesta,
Samantha Power,
E.W. “Bill” Priestap,
Sarah Raskin,
Steve Ricchetti,
Susan Rice,
Rod Rosenstein,
Gabriel Sanz-Rexach,
Nathan Sheets,
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
Glenn Simpson,
Steve Somma,
Peter Strzok,
Michael Sussman,
Adam Szubin,
Jonathan Winer,
Christopher Wray,
Sally Yates.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--‘Controlling What People Think’: Kim Holmes on the Left’s Speech Policing Goals

Kim Holmes , author of “ The Closing of the Liberal Mind ” and executive vice president at The Heritage Foundation , joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the resignation of New York Times opinion editor James Bennet after he ran an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton , and the outraged reaction to J.K. Rowling ’ s essay on gender identity .
Holmes also outlines the intellectual roots of the current speech and thought policing and why the left has become so close-minded .
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You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at [ email @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kate Trinko : Joining us today is Kim Holmes .
He ’ s the executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation and author of “ The Closing of the Liberal Mind , ” a book that looks more prophetic than ever .
Kim , thanks for joining us .
Kim Holmes : It ’ s great to be with you , Kate .
Thanks for having me .
Trinko : Of course .
So this feels like we are in an era in the United States where speech is being policed more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talk about the most recent prominent example of that .
The New York Times published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton , Republican of Arkansas , and in that op-ed , he talked about the need to restore order amid the riots that were occurring after George Floyd ’ s killing .
One of the measures that Cotton suggested the government could do was to use troops to bring about order .
This resulted in such a major crisis at The New York Times [ and ] the opinion editor , James Bennet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So what do you think about this incident ?
Holmes : I ’ m afraid that we ’ ve been talking about the mainstream media being liberal for many , many years .
I would say that it ’ s not just that it ’ s getting worse .
It ’ s getting to the point now where they ’ re not even pretending to be journalists .
By that I mean The New York Times , The Washington Post .
If you read The Washington Post , occasionally I do , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one or two stories with some news tacked at the very end .
And the standards of journalism are just going through into the tank .
But what I think you ’ re seeing with The New York Times is that they are moving well beyond even pretending to be journalists and they are going into full-scale support for a kind of a programmatic activist agenda , and then using the prestige and legitimacy that they have or what remains of it to try to push this agenda .
The purpose of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … as opposed to an agitation propaganda sheet where we only have one point of view .
But apparently that ’ s what The New York Times is willing to accept right now .
It ’ s a very , very sad day , not only for free speech , but frankly , for journalism .
Trinko : As a side note , if I ever leave The Daily Signal , I kind of want to start a broad sheet called “ Agitation Propaganda Sheet.
” That ’ s a great name .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the threads in this whole New York Times situation was staffers who tweeted about the Cotton op-ed tweets along the lines of , or exactly this way , “ Running this puts black people , including black New York Times staff , in danger.
” So it really went beyond them not liking what Cotton had to say and these staffers saying that his speech is actually dangerous .
I ’ m curious as to what your thoughts are on that and of course , this comes amid a broader push @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that speech can equal violence .
Holmes : This question of speech and violence has a long history .
It actually goes back to early 20th century when there was some Supreme Court rulings .
[ A ] very famous one is can you walk into a theater in the darkness and cry fire if there ’ s no fire because you are endangering the people by creating a panic situation ?
And the courts actually rule that there are certain kinds of incitement of speech that if it leads directly to violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you actually call for violence , then there can be some curves on free speech .
But I can assure you , that ’ s not what ’ s going on here .
What is going on here is to define the boundaries of free speech to the point where if you have an opinion about , for example , law enforcement or racism in law enforcement or whatever , they want to circumscribe the space in which that opinion exists and then anything outside will be considered the equivalent of inside environments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jurisprudence , in our court system , for this kind of politicization , if you will , of speech and narrowing that to the point where just having a difference of opinion is the equivalent of inciting violence .
Of course , this is a tactic that the far left has used now for decades .
I recall back when we had the bomber in Oklahoma City , where Bill Clinton came in and accused the Republicans of inciting that because they had differences of opinion with him over policy .
And so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people , particularly the Democratic Party and many liberals , saying that there are certain opinions that you should not have , because if you do have them , we will accuse you of inciting violence , whether you actually are or not .
Trinko : Amazingly , The New York Times wasn ’ t the only media outlet that has struggled .
An editor last week at The Philadelphia Inquirer stepped down because he headlined an article , “ Buildings Matter , Too , ” and there was such an uproar that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You talked a little bit about what ’ s going on in American media , but zooming out a little bit , do these incidents make a difference in American life ?
I mean , the media has been biased for years .
Is this really something that ’ s going to affect the country as a whole to have the media reacting like this ?
Holmes : Well , absolutely .
They are fanning the fires of polarization , they ’ re making it nearly impossible for reasonable people to talk to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The whole purpose is to mobilize hatred , anger , resentment , and an act of vengeance , but how can that possibly be good ?
If we want to live in a civil society where we protect our liberties and you have larger organizations that have access to communications , essentially trying to create the equivalent of certainly a cultural but perhaps even a social revolution of overturning the values and even , [ in ] some cases , the police departments and the legal norms that protect our liberties , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were aligned with powers that be and a lot of people who have money , that ’ s very dangerous for America .
I don ’ t know how else to put it because this is not the liberalism I grew up with , I can tell you that .
We had Walter Cronkite , who was sort of a liberal and he leaned to the left on a lot of things , but I mean , at least they had a decent respect for other fellow Americans .
Here , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being drawn , and the media is very much part of that , particularly the mainstream media , is that they are basically saying , “ If you ’ re not with us , you ’ re against us .
If you ’ re not our friend , you ’ re our enemy.
” And if you start talking about fellow Americans as enemies , it will not end well .
It will end in some kind of violence and it will end in a kind of discord that will hurt everyone ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trinko : You mentioned Walter Cronkite and one of the interesting developments of the past 20 years or so has been the internet where conservatives have been communicating on social media platforms from Twitter to Facebook , even a little bit on Instagram .
Now , these companies , I want to be clear , they ’ re free to make their own decisions about content , they ’ re all private companies , but I ’ m curious as to what you think it means for our broader culture , our discourse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now slapping warnings about violence , and also fact-checking President [ Donald ] Trump ’ s tweets .
And I should add , not only is Twitter doing this , some Facebook employees recently had a virtual walkout—which sounds like the most relaxing walkout ever , but it is coronavirus—where they basically said they wish Facebook was more the same , policing speech in this way .
So do you think this has implications for conversations in our culture as well ?
Holmes : Yeah , certainly it does .
I would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too much time watching Twitter or being on Twitter .
It ’ s not good for one ’ s mental health .
Having said that , Twitter may be a private company , but it ’ s no different than what ’ s happening in a lot of other American companies .
The whole woke culture , if you will , is taking over corporate boardrooms all across America .
And it ’ s very prevalent in the communications and the technology companies .
We all know about Google and Facebook and some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I think , gone the farthest in the sense that by trying to slap warnings and particularly , even in one case , taking a statement by the president of the United States down as if they ’ re policing what a democratically elected leader of the American people should or should not say .
You ’ re right , they are a private company , I ’ m not going to have the government go in and shut them down , but they are seriously part of the problem , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re ever going to get past this terrible time we ’ re in is when people respect each other more and people listen to each other more .
And the more that we see Hollywood actors putting out videos , and I saw this yesterday , where I ’ m not going to tolerate this anymore , I ’ m not going to tolerate that anymore , sort of appointing themselves as the cultural policemen of what people can think and doing it with a very arrogant kind of shaming attitude that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throughout social media .
I ’ ve said to other people who were involved and YouTube and others involved and Twitter , if these platforms for the communications and sharing of ideas become weapons in the cultural war , then our country is going to be in deep trouble .
Kate Trinko : Speaking of the cultural war , “ Harry Potter ” author J.K. Rowling is under attack from the left because she is speaking out against transwomen being seen as being the exact same as women who were , well , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president of the LGBT activist group the Human Rights Campaign , said in a statement in response to a long essay that Rowling wrote about her views on gender—very thoughtful essay , I might add—David said , “ As one of the most famous women in the world and one whose work has inspired countless LGBTQ young people to imagine a world of acceptance and inclusivity , she bears an extra responsibility to ensure that her words do not do damage.
” He added , “ Rowling ’ s words are inflicting harm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are already among the world ’ s most marginalized and endangered populations.
” How do we see the left policing speech in this arena of the culture wars , particularly on issues of sexuality ?
Holmes : The thing is , … we think we ’ re talking about speech , about what people say , but actually , we ’ re talking about something much deeper than that .
We ’ re actually talking about controlling what people think .
And if you control what people think , you control what they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just about what do I think of transgender people or not , and I have an attitude or opinion , you do as well .
It ’ s much more than that .
It ’ s actually escalating of the discussion of what is permissible speech , to the point of saying that if you don ’ t say exactly what I say , then we will control your speech and therefore , we will control what you think and do .
It ’ s inherently authoritarian in its mindset .
You find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find it in different kinds of ways on the far right , or at least in history .
But I think that what is happening here is that J.K. Rowling is probably your sort of standard liberal in a kind of old-fashioned way .
And then she ’ s running into this hard-left mindset about sexuality that probably is catching her by surprise .
She ’ s probably thinking , “ Well , I want to be tolerant to gay people or LGBT people .
If they want to live that way , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s not what they ’ re saying .
They ’ re not asking for tolerance .
They ’ re asking that you be forced to accept their language and their view of the world through , supposedly , the lens of accepting them as human beings by essentially acquainting the two .
In other words , “ If you don ’ t accept who I say I am , I may be born a woman , but now I ’ m a man , if you say that I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ denying me my humanity.
” Well , I mean , that is so beyond the pale of what it means to have a reason discourse .
I can ’ t imagine anybody who would not be a bit shocked by that .
But what I think what it really comes down to , what I actually think the biggest threat here is about this whole question of speech on sexuality , is it is not so much the narrow issues or the issues of LGBT issues per se , but how it affects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as human beings and as Americans , and also , what kind of legal precedence it sets .
If you could imagine that you can create a legal system , which our legal system is based upon bringing people in and having a back and forth in the courtroom , … as we understand the facts .
If you get into a situation where our law can not distinguish between the fact of a man or a woman , and it ’ s all definitional , it ’ s all subjective , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are into a realm where facts no longer exist in our law .
You ’ re in a whole new dimension of law and a whole new dimension of potential coercion that goes far beyond the issue of sexuality .
Trinko : I want to return to something you said in your answer , where you talked about how this is really about thought control and about authoritarianism .
And I ’ m wondering , where did this come from ?
Are we seeing movements that had their roots in the academy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did this just spring out of nowhere ?
Holmes : No , it did not spring out of nowhere .
It ’ s been in the making for almost a century .
I wrote this book , I think you mentioned it upfront , called “ The Closing of the Liberal Mind : Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left , ” and that book is a history of ideas of the modern progressive movement .
And if you want to trace the origins of this kind of thinking , you have to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things were happening , more or less in conjunction with one another before , but were happening on sort of different planes .
One was the rise of the New Left and the academic community and the rise of sort of cultural Marxist concepts , groupthink , if you will , that groups like gender , race , these are power groups that compete with one another .
There is no such thing as individuality or free speech .
It ’ s all a big fiction and really , politics and government is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are an aggrieved group , as gender and race and critical theory would tell you they are .
Then they form [ a ] kind of revolution , cultural revolution , where they need to take over the power of the state .
So there ’ s a lot of work on that .
Most of them were cultural Marxists , and that ’ s one of the extremes .
The other one was this idea of relativism .
I won ’ t go into the detail .
There were a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They believe that there was no truth , or at least they pretended there was no truth .
Everything was about language and 20 or 30 years ago , this was all the rage .
“ I got my truth , you got your truth.
” Well , it turns out , really , if you ’ re a leftist , the only ones that don ’ t have absolute truth … I mean , the leftists have absolute truth and everybody else has relative truths .
It was just a technique , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the system of government we had in America .
And then the final was the sexual revolution of the ’ 60s , and it actually started in the ’ 50s .
Very , very important because it ’ s from the sexual revolution .
It also had Marxist people like Herbert Marcuse in the academy who wrote a book called “ Eros and Civilization , ” where he brought Sigmund Freud in and matched him up with Karl Marx and basically said sexual liberation is the new revolution .
He wrote that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that was a powerful idea because what it did was it implanted in our culture the idea of individual liberation , sexual liberation suddenly became a social cause .
So you could go out and live the most liberative life you can possibly imagine , and you ’ re doing it for a good social cause .
And then it ’ s morphed into different kinds of ways of thinking , but clearly the whole idea of gender identity and sexual liberation that is now part and parcel of identity politics came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all I was trying to do with this book by saying , is that what you see on the streets now was invented by a bunch of intellectuals .
Old saying , be very careful about some guy or woman or whatever , locked off in a closet somewhere , cooking up some new revolutionary idea because 50 years from now , people may be actually making a revolution based upon it .
That ’ s , of course , what Karl Marx did .
But these ideas do matter because the whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the things that I just said .
So groupthink is on the absolute values that they have and everybody else ’ s values are wrong .
And No .
3 , that the new radical individualism that you see sometimes mistakenly ascribed to libertarians , it comes from the sexual revolution from the 1960s and the whole idea of individual liberation being based upon a personal expression through sexuality .
Trinko : So perhaps the broader point here is , of course , it takes two to tango .
If people have these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or receptive , they don ’ t go anywhere .
Trinko : And at the same time , I think another thread that I ’ m at least noticing is that people do seem genuinely very easily offended and upset and triggered these days .
So I don ’ t know if you have any speculation on this point , but why do you think the culture is receptive to this kind of revolutionary thinking ?
Why are people genuinely so easily offended right now and is this something that we can or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Well , rather than giving a long historical discourse about who started it , going back 40 or 50 years , all I can say is that once you get into a radical cycle where one group is accusing another group of basically being their enemy and destroying them and acting that way and talking that way and just pushing the envelope as much as you possibly can in that direction , the more the other side is going to be offended and afraid .
And whereas we may have had enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ago , where people could have disagreements in members of Congress and they would go back out from Democratic or Republican Party in the evening and have drinks together , you just don ’ t have that anymore .
Now people are treating each other as enemies and that ’ s because the polarization has made it such that the stakes are that it ’ s now a power struggle .
It ’ s a power struggle over symbols , it ’ s a power struggle over values , and it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over whom .
And so one of the great things about America is that we could switch back and forth between administrations and presidents and turn over power without that fear .
A lot of countries don ’ t live that way .
One of the reasons why dictators often hold onto power is because they ’ re afraid they ’ re going to be taken out and shot once they let go of it .
We ’ ve been very blessed in this country , not to have that kind of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , of the Civil War .
But this is where we are right now .
It ’ s a zero-sum game .
People are truly afraid .
Now , I would say that the progressive left started pushing in this radical tradition some 20 or 30 years ago , whether they believed it or not , as I assume most of them did .
But what ’ s happened now is they are getting so successful because they occupy so many different institutions .
They occupy the media , they occupy the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boardroom , they occupy the social media and the technology companies .
And people who are traditional in their views are starting to look around and go , “ Oh , my God , those people are coming after me and they ’ re coming after my values and they ’ re going to force me to raise my children in a way that I don ’ t want to raise them.
” That is threatening to them in a way that they have not experienced before .
Trinko : Definitely .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve mentioned , “ The Closing of the Liberal Mind ” was actually first published in 2016 , before Donald Trump was elected , before coronavirus .
It feels like a million years ago .
So how have you seen the left change in the year since your book was published and has anything in particular surprised you or vice versa , validated your concerns ?
Holmes : Well , a couple of things have happened .
Barack Obama ’ s presidency pretty much sparked this recent round of progressives becoming more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them and he set a lot of precedents that , of course .
In reaction to him , we have gotten Donald Trump elected president .
But the other thing is , is that there ’ s a generational change that ’ s been happening in the last 20 years and for the last four years .
Younger people who are very infatuated with the so-called woke culture are now moving up into positions of influence and even power .
Their master of technology has allowed many of them to gain wealth , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot faster and at a lot younger age than , certainly , my generation ever had .
And so the generational change , the fact that the political elite now is younger than it was 20 or 30 years ago and the fact that the culture is fractured because of the binary politics , the Democrats and the Republicans being so at odds with one another , and because all the traditional mediating institutions that kept America together , the churches , and all of the other kinds of institutions are also fractured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has , as I said a minute ago , we ’ ve gotten a lot more frightened , a lot more concerned that if they don ’ t win in the elections , the stakes are so much high or higher than they were before .
If they don ’ t win , or if they lose , then it ’ s going to be a terrible , devastating impact on them personally .
That ’ s not the way it was 10 or 20 years ago .
We would lose , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just wait eight more years and go at it again .
Right now the stakes seem to be much higher , and this is actually quite a concern to me .
Trinko : So what would you say to listeners who value free speech , who want it to flourish in America and not have this kind of , as you said , authoritarian mindset ?
What can they do to promote that right now ?
Holmes : Well , I would say on both sides , liberal or conservatives , stop posturing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re going to try to make a difference in this world , first of all , look to yourselves and make sure that you in your private life and your family life , you ’ re doing the right thing .
And at that point , go out and show some respect to your fellow Americans instead of immediately assuming that they are , in a worst-case scenario , your enemies .
I know that sounds high-minded , and that ’ s certainly … the mood everybody ’ s in right now .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a very hot mood right now and I feel sometimes when I ’ m talking to some of my fellow conservatives , they ’ re thinking that , well , that ’ s all very quaint .
That ’ s the way it used to be , but we ’ re now in a culture war , and we have to fight fire with fire to which I say , when I hear that , I say , “ Well , the problem with fighting fire with fire is that you get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ burning and it doesn ’ t stop burning until you run out of fuel .
And then by the time you run out of fuel , everything ’ s burned down.
” … This is not American for us to look at each other as enemies like this .
And I fully believed that it was started by the progressive left 50 , 60 years ago when they started walking away from the roots of liberalism from the Progressive Era and starting becoming , frankly , cultural Marxists in the way that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our great values of freedom and civil society to be taken as a big joke and seeing , basically , society and politics as a power struggle between groups .
This is not America .
This is not what made the country great .
And I fear for our country if we don ’ t overcome this .
Trinko : All right .
Well , thank you very much .
And again , the book by Dr. Holmes is called “ The Closing of the Liberal Mind.
” Thank you for joining us @

Kim Holmes, author of “The Closing of the Liberal Mind” and executive vice president at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the resignation of New York Times opinion editor James Bennet after he ran an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton, and the outraged reaction to J.K. Rowling’s essay on gender identity. Holmes also outlines the intellectual roots of the current speech and thought policing and why the left has become so close-minded.
We also cover these stories:
The Supreme Court issues a major decision on discrimination and LGBT employees.
Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh criticize their Supreme Court colleagues for not taking up a Second Amendment case.
The Food and Drug administration takes action on anti-malaria drug explored as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
The Daily Signal Podcast is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Pippa, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show!
Kate Trinko: Joining us today is Kim Holmes. He’s the executive vice president of The Heritage Foundation and author of “The Closing of the Liberal Mind,” a book that looks more prophetic than ever. Kim, thanks for joining us.
Kim Holmes: It’s great to be with you, Kate. Thanks for having me.
Trinko: Of course. So this feels like we are in an era in the United States where speech is being policed more than ever before. So let’s talk about the most recent prominent example of that.
The New York Times published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, and in that op-ed, he talked about the need to restore order amid the riots that were occurring after George Floyd’s killing.
One of the measures that Cotton suggested the government could do was to use troops to bring about order. This resulted in such a major crisis at The New York Times [and] the opinion editor, James Bennet, was essentially forced to step down. So what do you think about this incident?
Holmes: I’m afraid that we’ve been talking about the mainstream media being liberal for many, many years. I would say that it’s not just that it’s getting worse. It’s getting to the point now where they’re not even pretending to be journalists.
By that I mean The New York Times, The Washington Post. If you read The Washington Post, occasionally I do, and it’s 12 pages of one or two stories with some news tacked at the very end. And the standards of journalism are just going through into the tank.
But what I think you’re seeing with The New York Times is that they are moving well beyond even pretending to be journalists and they are going into full-scale support for a kind of a programmatic activist agenda, and then using the prestige and legitimacy that they have or what remains of it to try to push this agenda.
The purpose of an opinion page is to have opinions, … as opposed to an agitation propaganda sheet where we only have one point of view. But apparently that’s what The New York Times is willing to accept right now. It’s a very, very sad day, not only for free speech, but frankly, for journalism.
Trinko: As a side note, if I ever leave The Daily Signal, I kind of want to start a broad sheet called “Agitation Propaganda Sheet.” That’s a great name.
Holmes: Agitprop.
Trinko: Agitprop, exactly. So one of the threads in this whole New York Times situation was staffers who tweeted about the Cotton op-ed tweets along the lines of, or exactly this way, “Running this puts black people, including black New York Times staff, in danger.”
So it really went beyond them not liking what Cotton had to say and these staffers saying that his speech is actually dangerous.
I’m curious as to what your thoughts are on that and of course, this comes amid a broader push by some on the left to say that speech can equal violence.
Holmes: This question of speech and violence has a long history. It actually goes back to early 20th century when there was some Supreme Court rulings. [A] very famous one is can you walk into a theater in the darkness and cry fire if there’s no fire because you are endangering the people by creating a panic situation?
And the courts actually rule that there are certain kinds of incitement of speech that if it leads directly to violence and intended to do that, and you actually call for violence, then there can be some curves on free speech.
But I can assure you, that’s not what’s going on here. What is going on here is to define the boundaries of free speech to the point where if you have an opinion about, for example, law enforcement or racism in law enforcement or whatever, they want to circumscribe the space in which that opinion exists and then anything outside will be considered the equivalent of inside environments.
There is no history in our jurisprudence, in our court system, for this kind of politicization, if you will, of speech and narrowing that to the point where just having a difference of opinion is the equivalent of inciting violence.
Of course, this is a tactic that the far left has used now for decades. I recall back when we had the bomber in Oklahoma City, where Bill Clinton came in and accused the Republicans of inciting that because they had differences of opinion with him over policy.
And so at that point, you already had people, particularly the Democratic Party and many liberals, saying that there are certain opinions that you should not have, because if you do have them, we will accuse you of inciting violence, whether you actually are or not.
Trinko: Amazingly, The New York Times wasn’t the only media outlet that has struggled. An editor last week at The Philadelphia Inquirer stepped down because he headlined an article, “Buildings Matter, Too,” and there was such an uproar that he also was forced to quit.
You talked a little bit about what’s going on in American media, but zooming out a little bit, do these incidents make a difference in American life? I mean, the media has been biased for years. Is this really something that’s going to affect the country as a whole to have the media reacting like this?
Holmes: Well, absolutely. They are fanning the fires of polarization, they’re making it nearly impossible for reasonable people to talk to one another about how to solve problems.
The whole purpose is to mobilize hatred, anger, resentment, and an act of vengeance, but how can that possibly be good?
If we want to live in a civil society where we protect our liberties and you have larger organizations that have access to communications, essentially trying to create the equivalent of certainly a cultural but perhaps even a social revolution of overturning the values and even, [in] some cases, the police departments and the legal norms that protect our liberties, and that’s their agenda and they were aligned with powers that be and a lot of people who have money, that’s very dangerous for America.
I don’t know how else to put it because this is not the liberalism I grew up with, I can tell you that. We had Walter Cronkite, who was sort of a liberal and he leaned to the left on a lot of things, but I mean, at least they had a decent respect for other fellow Americans.
Here, the problem is the way these lines are being drawn, and the media is very much part of that, particularly the mainstream media, is that they are basically saying, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us. If you’re not our friend, you’re our enemy.”
And if you start talking about fellow Americans as enemies, it will not end well. It will end in some kind of violence and it will end in a kind of discord that will hurt everyone’s freedom and weaken the country.
Trinko: You mentioned Walter Cronkite and one of the interesting developments of the past 20 years or so has been the internet where conservatives have been communicating on social media platforms from Twitter to Facebook, even a little bit on Instagram.
Now, these companies, I want to be clear, they’re free to make their own decisions about content, they’re all private companies, but I’m curious as to what you think it means for our broader culture, our discourse, that Twitter, for instance, is now slapping warnings about violence, and also fact-checking President [Donald] Trump’s tweets.
And I should add, not only is Twitter doing this, some Facebook employees recently had a virtual walkout—which sounds like the most relaxing walkout ever, but it is coronavirus—where they basically said they wish Facebook was more the same, policing speech in this way.
So do you think this has implications for conversations in our culture as well?
Holmes: Yeah, certainly it does. I would not recommend that too many people spend too much time watching Twitter or being on Twitter. It’s not good for one’s mental health.
Having said that, Twitter may be a private company, but it’s no different than what’s happening in a lot of other American companies.
The whole woke culture, if you will, is taking over corporate boardrooms all across America. And it’s very prevalent in the communications and the technology companies.
We all know about Google and Facebook and some of the controversies there. Twitter has, I think, gone the farthest in the sense that by trying to slap warnings and particularly, even in one case, taking a statement by the president of the United States down as if they’re policing what a democratically elected leader of the American people should or should not say.
You’re right, they are a private company, I’m not going to have the government go in and shut them down, but they are seriously part of the problem, not the solution.
The only way we’re ever going to get past this terrible time we’re in is when people respect each other more and people listen to each other more.
And the more that we see Hollywood actors putting out videos, and I saw this yesterday, where I’m not going to tolerate this anymore, I’m not going to tolerate that anymore, sort of appointing themselves as the cultural policemen of what people can think and doing it with a very arrogant kind of shaming attitude that you see pervasive throughout the media and throughout social media.
I’ve said to other people who were involved and YouTube and others involved and Twitter, if these platforms for the communications and sharing of ideas become weapons in the cultural war, then our country is going to be in deep trouble.
Kate Trinko: Speaking of the cultural war, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is under attack from the left because she is speaking out against transwomen being seen as being the exact same as women who were, well, born women.
And Alphonso David, president of the LGBT activist group the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement in response to a long essay that Rowling wrote about her views on gender—very thoughtful essay, I might add—David said, “As one of the most famous women in the world and one whose work has inspired countless LGBTQ young people to imagine a world of acceptance and inclusivity, she bears an extra responsibility to ensure that her words do not do damage.”
He added, “Rowling’s words are inflicting harm on the transgender and nonbinary community who are already among the world’s most marginalized and endangered populations.”
How do we see the left policing speech in this arena of the culture wars, particularly on issues of sexuality?
Holmes: The thing is, … we think we’re talking about speech, about what people say, but actually, we’re talking about something much deeper than that. We’re actually talking about controlling what people think. And if you control what people think, you control what they do.
So this is more than just about what do I think of transgender people or not, and I have an attitude or opinion, you do as well. It’s much more than that.
It’s actually escalating of the discussion of what is permissible speech, to the point of saying that if you don’t say exactly what I say, then we will control your speech and therefore, we will control what you think and do.
It’s inherently authoritarian in its mindset. You find it on the far left and you find it in different kinds of ways on the far right, or at least in history.
But I think that what is happening here is that J.K. Rowling is probably your sort of standard liberal in a kind of old-fashioned way. And then she’s running into this hard-left mindset about sexuality that probably is catching her by surprise.
She’s probably thinking, “Well, I want to be tolerant to gay people or LGBT people. If they want to live that way, that’s their business.” But that’s not what they’re saying.
They’re not asking for tolerance. They’re asking that you be forced to accept their language and their view of the world through, supposedly, the lens of accepting them as human beings by essentially acquainting the two.
In other words, “If you don’t accept who I say I am, I may be born a woman, but now I’m a man, if you say that I’m still a woman, then you are denying me my humanity.”
Well, I mean, that is so beyond the pale of what it means to have a reason discourse. I can’t imagine anybody who would not be a bit shocked by that.
But what I think what it really comes down to, what I actually think the biggest threat here is about this whole question of speech on sexuality, is it is not so much the narrow issues or the issues of LGBT issues per se, but how it affects our discourse and our understanding of ourselves as human beings and as Americans, and also, what kind of legal precedence it sets.
If you could imagine that you can create a legal system, which our legal system is based upon bringing people in and having a back and forth in the courtroom, … as we understand the facts.
If you get into a situation where our law cannot distinguish between the fact of a man or a woman, and it’s all definitional, it’s all subjective, it’s all political, then you are into a realm where facts no longer exist in our law. You’re in a whole new dimension of law and a whole new dimension of potential coercion that goes far beyond the issue of sexuality.
Trinko: I want to return to something you said in your answer, where you talked about how this is really about thought control and about authoritarianism. And I’m wondering, where did this come from? Are we seeing movements that had their roots in the academy and intellectual thought from past decades, or did this just spring out of nowhere?
Holmes: No, it did not spring out of nowhere. It’s been in the making for almost a century. I wrote this book, I think you mentioned it upfront, called “The Closing of the Liberal Mind: Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left,” and that book is a history of ideas of the modern progressive movement.
And if you want to trace the origins of this kind of thinking, you have to go back to the 1960s, where three things were happening, more or less in conjunction with one another before, but were happening on sort of different planes.
One was the rise of the New Left and the academic community and the rise of sort of cultural Marxist concepts, groupthink, if you will, that groups like gender, race, these are power groups that compete with one another. There is no such thing as individuality or free speech.
It’s all a big fiction and really, politics and government is all about these groups, particularly if they are an aggrieved group, as gender and race and critical theory would tell you they are. Then they form [a] kind of revolution, cultural revolution, where they need to take over the power of the state. So there’s a lot of work on that.
Most of them were cultural Marxists, and that’s one of the extremes. The other one was this idea of relativism. I won’t go into the detail.
There were a lot of philosophers to call themselves postmodernists. They believe that there was no truth, or at least they pretended there was no truth.
Everything was about language and 20 or 30 years ago, this was all the rage. “I got my truth, you got your truth.” Well, it turns out, really, if you’re a leftist, the only ones that don’t have absolute truth … I mean, the leftists have absolute truth and everybody else has relative truths.
It was just a technique, which to deconstruct morality and reality, and the system of government we had in America. And then the final was the sexual revolution of the ’60s, and it actually started in the ’50s. Very, very important because it’s from the sexual revolution.
It also had Marxist people like Herbert Marcuse in the academy who wrote a book called “Eros and Civilization,” where he brought Sigmund Freud in and matched him up with Karl Marx and basically said sexual liberation is the new revolution. He wrote that book in the ’60s.
Anyway, that was a powerful idea because what it did was it implanted in our culture the idea of individual liberation, sexual liberation suddenly became a social cause. So you could go out and live the most liberative life you can possibly imagine, and you’re doing it for a good social cause.
And then it’s morphed into different kinds of ways of thinking, but clearly the whole idea of gender identity and sexual liberation that is now part and parcel of identity politics came from that way of thinking.
So all I was trying to do with this book by saying, is that what you see on the streets now was invented by a bunch of intellectuals.
Old saying, be very careful about some guy or woman or whatever, locked off in a closet somewhere, cooking up some new revolutionary idea because 50 years from now, people may be actually making a revolution based upon it. That’s, of course, what Karl Marx did.
But these ideas do matter because the whole notion of identity politics is based upon the things that I just said. So groupthink is on the absolute values that they have and everybody else’s values are wrong.
And No. 3, that the new radical individualism that you see sometimes mistakenly ascribed to libertarians, it comes from the sexual revolution from the 1960s and the whole idea of individual liberation being based upon a personal expression through sexuality.
Trinko: So perhaps the broader point here is, of course, it takes two to tango. If people have these ideas, but no one is interested or receptive, they don’t go anywhere.
Holmes: Right.
Trinko: And at the same time, I think another thread that I’m at least noticing is that people do seem genuinely very easily offended and upset and triggered these days.
So I don’t know if you have any speculation on this point, but why do you think the culture is receptive to this kind of revolutionary thinking? Why are people genuinely so easily offended right now and is this something that we can or should address in any way?
Holmes: Well, rather than giving a long historical discourse about who started it, going back 40 or 50 years, all I can say is that once you get into a radical cycle where one group is accusing another group of basically being their enemy and destroying them and acting that way and talking that way and just pushing the envelope as much as you possibly can in that direction, the more the other side is going to be offended and afraid.
And whereas we may have had enough of a public space, some 20 years ago, where people could have disagreements in members of Congress and they would go back out from Democratic or Republican Party in the evening and have drinks together, you just don’t have that anymore.
Now people are treating each other as enemies and that’s because the polarization has made it such that the stakes are that it’s now a power struggle.
It’s a power struggle over symbols, it’s a power struggle over values, and it’s a power struggle over who governs over whom.
And so one of the great things about America is that we could switch back and forth between administrations and presidents and turn over power without that fear. A lot of countries don’t live that way.
One of the reasons why dictators often hold onto power is because they’re afraid they’re going to be taken out and shot once they let go of it.
We’ve been very blessed in this country, not to have that kind of a mentality, with the exception, of course, of the Civil War. But this is where we are right now. It’s a zero-sum game. People are truly afraid.
Now, I would say that the progressive left started pushing in this radical tradition some 20 or 30 years ago, whether they believed it or not, as I assume most of them did.
But what’s happened now is they are getting so successful because they occupy so many different institutions. They occupy the media, they occupy the newsroom, they occupy increasingly the corporate boardroom, they occupy the social media and the technology companies.
And people who are traditional in their views are starting to look around and go, “Oh, my God, those people are coming after me and they’re coming after my values and they’re going to force me to raise my children in a way that I don’t want to raise them.”
That is threatening to them in a way that they have not experienced before.
Trinko: Definitely. So your book, as I think we’ve mentioned, “The Closing of the Liberal Mind” was actually first published in 2016, before Donald Trump was elected, before coronavirus. It feels like a million years ago.
So how have you seen the left change in the year since your book was published and has anything in particular surprised you or vice versa, validated your concerns?
Holmes: Well, a couple of things have happened. Barack Obama’s presidency pretty much sparked this recent round of progressives becoming more radical. It opened up space for them and he set a lot of precedents that, of course. In reaction to him, we have gotten Donald Trump elected president.
But the other thing is, is that there’s a generational change that’s been happening in the last 20 years and for the last four years. Younger people who are very infatuated with the so-called woke culture are now moving up into positions of influence and even power.
Their master of technology has allowed many of them to gain wealth, power, prestige, and influence a lot faster and at a lot younger age than, certainly, my generation ever had.
And so the generational change, the fact that the political elite now is younger than it was 20 or 30 years ago and the fact that the culture is fractured because of the binary politics, the Democrats and the Republicans being so at odds with one another, and because all the traditional mediating institutions that kept America together, the churches, and all of the other kinds of institutions are also fractured along these cultural fault lines that everyone has, as I said a minute ago, we’ve gotten a lot more frightened, a lot more concerned that if they don’t win in the elections, the stakes are so much high or higher than they were before.
If they don’t win, or if they lose, then it’s going to be a terrible, devastating impact on them personally. That’s not the way it was 10 or 20 years ago. We would lose, or we get very upset. Then we just wait eight more years and go at it again.
Right now the stakes seem to be much higher, and this is actually quite a concern to me.
Trinko: So what would you say to listeners who value free speech, who want it to flourish in America and not have this kind of, as you said, authoritarian mindset? What can they do to promote that right now?
Holmes: Well, I would say on both sides, liberal or conservatives, stop posturing, stop lecturing. If you’re going to try to make a difference in this world, first of all, look to yourselves and make sure that you in your private life and your family life, you’re doing the right thing.
And at that point, go out and show some respect to your fellow Americans instead of immediately assuming that they are, in a worst-case scenario, your enemies.
I know that sounds high-minded, and that’s certainly … the mood everybody’s in right now. All Americans, including conservatives, are in a very hot mood right now and I feel sometimes when I’m talking to some of my fellow conservatives, they’re thinking that, well, that’s all very quaint.
That’s the way it used to be, but we’re now in a culture war, and we have to fight fire with fire to which I say, when I hear that, I say, “Well, the problem with fighting fire with fire is that you get more fire and then both sides start burning and it doesn’t stop burning until you run out of fuel. And then by the time you run out of fuel, everything’s burned down.” …
This is not American for us to look at each other as enemies like this. And I fully believed that it was started by the progressive left 50, 60 years ago when they started walking away from the roots of liberalism from the Progressive Era and starting becoming, frankly, cultural Marxists in the way that they look at America and seeing all of our great values of freedom and civil society to be taken as a big joke and seeing, basically, society and politics as a power struggle between groups.
This is not America. This is not what made the country great. And I fear for our country if we don’t overcome this.
Trinko: All right. Well, thank you very much. And again, the book by Dr. Holmes is called “The Closing of the Liberal Mind.” Thank you for joining us.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--Deer Takes Out 3 Black Lives Matter Rabble-Rousers in New Jersey

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey over the weekend , one woman was sent to the hospital and 2 others were injured after a deer crashed the party and rammed into them .
On Friday , the South Brunswick Police Department tweeted that the protest “ drew hundreds of people to the rally and march , ” during which “ 3 people were injured when a deer ran from the high school property into the marchers.
” “ Officers working the event immediately provided medical aid until EMS arrived , ” they added .
The SBPD also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 69 year old woman received a serious head injury and was take to an area hospital .
She was in intensive care late Friday night , ” while the “ Two others were treated on scene.
” Check out what the Daily Wire reported : The New York Post reported that the incident happened around 5 p.m. on Friday along County Route 533 “ as part of the town ’ s “ March for Justice ” in the wake of George Floyd ’ s police custody death , with a police escort leading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police department said the elderly woman who was sent to the hospital had “ improved.
” “ We continue to pray for her complete recovery , ” the police added .
In addition to the three who were injured by the deer , Fox 5 NY reported that two more people “ were treated for heat-related issues at the march and rally.
” The march and rally was one of dozens of gatherings that have sprung up across the United States in response to the police-involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to Floyd ’ s neck for nearly nine minutes .
Floyd repeatedly told officers he couldn ’ t breathe and was pronounced dead at the hospital .
Though Chauvin was arrested and charged with 3rd-degree murder ( later upgraded to 2nd-degree ) and manslaughter within five days of Floyd ’ s death , protests and riots spread across America .
Thousands have taken to the streets to protest police brutality , but the protests quickly turned from peaceful to violent in just about every major city where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multiple cities , while cars and businesses were set on fire .
Police have been attacked with projectiles and weapons .
A few officers have even been killed , including retired police Captain David Dorn , 77 , who was murdered while trying to defend his friend ’ s pawn shop from looters .
In California , Federal Protective Service officer Dave Patrick Underwood , 53 , was also killed .
Though the mainstream media continues to claim the protests are “ mostly peaceful , ” footage shows otherwise .
Many of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have urged cities to “ defund the police , ” a move that is being considered in many areas , including Minneapolis , where Floyd died .
Celebrities have also joined in on calling to defund or abolish the police .
What are your thoughts ?
Let us know in the comments below !

During a Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey over the weekend, one woman was sent to the hospital and 2 others were injured after a deer crashed the party and rammed into them.
On Friday, the South Brunswick Police Department tweeted that the protest “drew hundreds of people to the rally and march,” during which “3 people were injured when a deer ran from the high school property into the marchers.”
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“Officers working the event immediately provided medical aid until EMS arrived,” they added.
The SBPD also reported in another tweet that a “69 year old woman received a serious head injury and was take to an area hospital. She was in intensive care late Friday night,” while the “Two others were treated on scene.”
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Check out what the Daily Wire reported:
The New York Post reported that the incident happened around 5 p.m. on Friday along County Route 533 “as part of the town’s “March for Justice” in the wake of George Floyd’s police custody death, with a police escort leading the demonstrators.” On Sunday, the police department said the elderly woman who was sent to the hospital had “improved.”
“We continue to pray for her complete recovery,” the police added. In addition to the three who were injured by the deer, Fox 5 NY reported that two more people “were treated for heat-related issues at the march and rally.” The march and rally was one of dozens of gatherings that have sprung up across the United States in response to the police-involved death of Minneapolis man George Floyd. Floyd was in police custody when police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd repeatedly told officers he couldn’t breathe and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Though Chauvin was arrested and charged with 3rd-degree murder (later upgraded to 2nd-degree) and manslaughter within five days of Floyd’s death, protests and riots spread across America. Thousands have taken to the streets to protest police brutality, but the protests quickly turned from peaceful to violent in just about every major city where they began. Looting has occurred in multiple cities, while cars and businesses were set on fire. Police have been attacked with projectiles and weapons. A few officers have even been killed, including retired police Captain David Dorn, 77, who was murdered while trying to defend his friend’s pawn shop from looters. In California, Federal Protective Service officer Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, was also killed. Though the mainstream media continues to claim the protests are “mostly peaceful,” footage shows otherwise. Many of the rioters and their media and Democrat supporters have urged cities to “defund the police,” a move that is being considered in many areas, including Minneapolis, where Floyd died. Celebrities have also joined in on calling to defund or abolish the police.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--NFL Legend Hershel Walker Unloads on Biden For Comparing George Floyd to Martin Luther King Jr.

Over the weekend , former NFL star Hershel Walker went off on former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for suggesting that the death of George Floyd had more of a worldwide impact than the death of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. “ Someone inform @ JoeBiden not to compare the death of Dr. King and George Floyd , ” Walker wrote in a tweet on Saturday .
“ He has been in office a very long time , and not once has he tried to change anything for black lives .
Look at his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came after Biden made some appalling comments during a roundtable event in Philadelphia on June 10th where he said that Dr. King ’ s death “ did not have the worldwide impact George Floyd ’ s death did.
” “ Even Dr. King ’ s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd ’ s death did , ” Biden bizarrely claimed during the event .
“ Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor ’ s dogs ripping the clothes off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go to church , and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids , ” he added .
Bull Connor the Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham , Alabama at the time and just so happened to be a Democrat as well .
“ That — all those folks around the country who didn ’ t have any black populations heard about this , but they didn ’ t believe it , but they saw it , it was impossible for them to close their eyes , ” Biden said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd , now you ’ ve got how many people around the country ?
Millions of cell phones , it ’ s changed the way everybody ’ s looking at this , ” Biden said about the reaction to Floyd 's death .
“ Look at the millions of people marching around the world.
” The claim by Biden was shocking to say the least and even got the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ’ s niece Alveda King who said that Biden was clearly “ missing the mark '' and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
“ President Trump says that we all bleed the same .
We are one nation under God .
Uncle Joe , as they call him — many do — is in his basement missing the mark .
And he is out of touch with reality , ” she said .
Alveda King also noted that comparing the deaths to each other is “ stirring the race card up.
” “ Both men were raised in godly families .
Both men wanted peace , ” Alveda King said .
“ Martin Luther @ @ @ @ @ @ @ George Floyd , whose family now — his brother Terrence [ says , ] ‘ We want peace.
’ His sister Ruby [ says , ] ‘ Let ’ s bring love back . '
” Dr. Alveda King doubled down on Biden by accusing him of “ fighting over skin color.
” “ You know , we are one race — [ the ] human race — one blood .
We can see you , Uncle Joe .
And we ’ re listening , ” she finished .
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Over the weekend, former NFL star Hershel Walker went off on former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for suggesting that the death of George Floyd had more of a worldwide impact than the death of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
“Someone inform @JoeBiden not to compare the death of Dr. King and George Floyd,” Walker wrote in a tweet on Saturday. “He has been in office a very long time, and not once has he tried to change anything for black lives. Look at his voting records!”
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Walker’s comments came after Biden made some appalling comments during a roundtable event in Philadelphia on June 10th where he said that Dr. King’s death “did not have the worldwide impact George Floyd’s death did.”
“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden bizarrely claimed during the event.
“Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor’s dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women who were trying to go to church, and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he added.
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Bull Connor the Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama at the time and just so happened to be a Democrat as well.
“That — all those folks around the country who didn’t have any black populations heard about this, but they didn’t believe it, but they saw it, it was impossible for them to close their eyes,” Biden said.
“Well, what happened to George Floyd, now you’ve got how many people around the country? Millions of cell phones, it’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,” Biden said about the reaction to Floyd’s death. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.”
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The claim by Biden was shocking to say the least and even got the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece Alveda King who said that Biden was clearly “missing the mark” and was “out of touch with reality.”
“President Trump says that we all bleed the same. We are one nation under God. Uncle Joe, as they call him — many do — is in his basement missing the mark. And he is out of touch with reality,” she said.
Alveda King also noted that comparing the deaths to each other is “stirring the race card up.”
“Both men were raised in godly families. Both men wanted peace,” Alveda King said. “Martin Luther King Jr.: a righteous preacher. George Floyd, whose family now — his brother Terrence [says,] ‘We want peace.’ His sister Ruby [says,] ‘Let’s bring love back.’”
Dr. Alveda King doubled down on Biden by accusing him of “fighting over skin color.”
“You know, we are one race — [the] human race — one blood. We can see you, Uncle Joe. And we’re listening,” she finished. “But you have the wrong message, Uncle Joe.”
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--IRONY: Planned Butcherhood Endorses Joe Biden, Says 2020 is ‘A Life and Death Election’

Abortion clinic Planned Parenthood has officially endorsed former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , ironically stating that this election is `` life and death . ''
Planned Parenthood is responsible for aborting over 300,000 babies a year .
With abortion rights advocates on the defensive at the federal and state levels over the last four years , Planned Parenthood 's advocacy arm is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden in his race to defeat President Trump .
Activists are putting their hope in Biden , whom some see as having a mixed record on abortion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reshaped by Trump appointees for key decisions that could scale back access to abortion and birth control .
They 're also reeling from a series of policy reversals related to reproductive health during the Trump administration .
`` This is literally a life and death election , '' acting president of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson said to NPR , clearly missing the irony in her comment .
`` We felt like we ca n't endure another four years of Trump ; we have to do everything we can to get him out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their endorsement in a video statement where Biden is shown voicing his support for abortion .
The video also goes into the Affordable Care Act which was enacted when Biden was vice president with Barack Obama .
`` We will protect women 's constitutional right to choose , and I am proud to stand with you in this fight , '' Biden says in the video .
Check out what else NPR had to say : Planned Parenthood is contrasting Biden 's record with that of Trump , who has won praise from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and for blocking domestic and international organizations that provide abortions from receiving federal funds to cover other reproductive health care such as birth control and sexually transmitted infection screenings .
McGill Johnson told NPR that it 's urgent to reverse Trump 's policies .
`` I think that 's where most Americans are , '' she said .
`` We need to be able to kind of move past this very challenging , divisive , polarized era and move into a place where we can actually rebuild our lives after this disaster @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , president of the anti-abortion rights group March For Life , said in a statement , `` It is offensive to hear our nation 's largest abortion provider , Planned Parenthood , an organization that claims the lives of 345,672 American babies annually ( a third of all of the abortions in this country each year ) , call the 2020 cycle a 'life and death ' election .
Those who really care about protecting life realize that the election of Planned Parenthood-endorsed candidate , Joe Biden , will result in a major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billion-dollar organization , including direct payment for abortions , among other deadly consequences . ''
Planned Parenthood has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate in every election cycle since 2004 when former U.S. Sen. John Kerry was the nominee .
After endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary four years ago , Planned Parenthood did not make a primary endorsement this year .
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Abortion clinic Planned Parenthood has officially endorsed former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, ironically stating that this election is “life and death.”
Planned Parenthood is responsible for aborting over 300,000 babies a year.
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With abortion rights advocates on the defensive at the federal and state levels over the last four years, Planned Parenthood’s advocacy arm is endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden in his race to defeat President Trump. Activists are putting their hope in Biden, whom some see as having a mixed record on abortion, as they watch a U.S. Supreme Court reshaped by Trump appointees for key decisions that could scale back access to abortion and birth control. They’re also reeling from a series of policy reversals related to reproductive health during the Trump administration.
“This is literally a life and death election,” acting president of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson said to NPR, clearly missing the irony in her comment. “We felt like we can’t endure another four years of Trump; we have to do everything we can to get him out of office.”
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Planned Parenthood announced their endorsement in a video statement where Biden is shown voicing his support for abortion. The video also goes into the Affordable Care Act which was enacted when Biden was vice president with Barack Obama.
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“We will protect women’s constitutional right to choose, and I am proud to stand with you in this fight,” Biden says in the video.
Check out what else NPR had to say:
Planned Parenthood is contrasting Biden’s record with that of Trump, who has won praise from abortion rights opponents for appointing conservative judges, and for blocking domestic and international organizations that provide abortions from receiving federal funds to cover other reproductive health care such as birth control and sexually transmitted infection screenings. McGill Johnson told NPR that it’s urgent to reverse Trump’s policies. “I think that’s where most Americans are,” she said. “We need to be able to kind of move past this very challenging, divisive, polarized era and move into a place where we can actually rebuild our lives after this disaster.” In response, Jeanne Mancini, president of the anti-abortion rights group March For Life, said in a statement, “It is offensive to hear our nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, an organization that claims the lives of 345,672 American babies annually (a third of all of the abortions in this country each year), call the 2020 cycle a ‘life and death’ election. Those who really care about protecting life realize that the election of Planned Parenthood-endorsed candidate, Joe Biden, will result in a major increase of tax dollars going to the billion-dollar organization, including direct payment for abortions, among other deadly consequences.” Planned Parenthood has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate in every election cycle since 2004 when former U.S. Sen. John Kerry was the nominee. After endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary four years ago, Planned Parenthood did not make a primary endorsement this year.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-17--Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine Rewrites History, Falsely Claims America “Created” Slavery

There are many Democratic politicians who are simply dumb .
They walk around with bad ideas and poor analyses and generally get laughed at by anyone other than their sheep .
But some Democratic politicians are truly dangerous as they attempt to spread their ineptitude to the masses .
One such Democrat is Senator Tim Kaine , the losing running mate for Hillary Clinton in 2016 .
His latest attempt to spread the stupid came in the form of a speech in which he claimed America created slavery .
This shouldn ’ t have to be said , but there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kaine said .
Conservatives and even a few leftists hit him hard on Twitter .
Anyone who has read the Bible , which Kaine claims he has , knows that slavery was around thousands of years before the United States existed .
It was inherited as a practice from many who came to America from Europe and continued on until the Civil War .
In fact , it was the Civil War that prompted the end of slavery in many nations around the world .
Democrats have only one hope to maintain any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establish an ubiquitous post-truth society as they have in places like San Francisco and Seattle .
Otherwise , truth always makes them look like fools .
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There are many Democratic politicians who are simply dumb. They walk around with bad ideas and poor analyses and generally get laughed at by anyone other than their sheep. But some Democratic politicians are truly dangerous as they attempt to spread their ineptitude to the masses. One such Democrat is Senator Tim Kaine, the losing running mate for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
His latest attempt to spread the stupid came in the form of a speech in which he claimed America created slavery.
Slavery is a moral abomination and a terrible stain on our nation’s history. It is ludicrously wrong, however, to assert that the United States ‘created it.’ https://t.co/rteK7S4uQ2 — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 16, 2020
This shouldn’t have to be said, but there is absolutely nothing factual in anything that Kaine said. Conservatives and even a few leftists hit him hard on Twitter.
Tim Kaine admits he has never read a book https://t.co/loG3bfcL9G — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 16, 2020
He can’t be this historically ignorant, can he? https://t.co/m338rcc5Yp — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 16, 2020
Here’s a @kevinmkruse ignoramus if there ever was one. Now watch Kruse produce one of his signature Twitter threads to prove that Kaine is right. I’ll get him started. “All previous forms of slavery weren’t really slavery.” Take it from here, Kevin https://t.co/Tde8pUM28w — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 16, 2020
Does Tim Kaine seriously think the United States invented slavery? https://t.co/bGHi6n9e0F — Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 16, 2020
The 1619 Project literally starts history in 1619, BEFORE THE UNITED STATES EXISTED https://t.co/07PLBxMHON — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 16, 2020
So is @TimKaine this dumb or does he just hate America that much? https://t.co/PJeg6oRua9 — DeAnna Lorraine ?? (@DeAnna4Congress) June 16, 2020
If a sitting U.S. senator believes this nonsense, imagine how many other people have been taught the same lie. https://t.co/dKfXtxespU — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 16, 2020
NO, Sen. Tim Kaine, America did not create slavery, they participated in slavery. The Democrat Party wanted to continue its practice to protect the interest of slave owners who were Democrat Congress Members. Systemic Racism started with Democrats who put these systems in place! https://t.co/GlGbJcnzpl — Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) June 16, 2020
The institution of slavery predated America’s founding. As far back as 3500 BCE. Sir, didn’t you go to Harvard? Please ask for your money back. https://t.co/MSyoLiyllI — CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) June 16, 2020
This man is an idiot. His name is @timkaine https://t.co/QntY4hyEMJ — Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) June 16, 2020
Anyone who has read the Bible, which Kaine claims he has, knows that slavery was around thousands of years before the United States existed. It was inherited as a practice from many who came to America from Europe and continued on until the Civil War. In fact, it was the Civil War that prompted the end of slavery in many nations around the world.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--Oklahoma State Football Coach Mike Gundy Pitifully Grovels to the Leftist Outrage Mob For Wearing An

Oklahoma State Football Coach Mike Gundy Pitifully Grovels to the Leftist Outrage Mob For Wearing An OAN Shirt

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy has apologized for wearing a One America News Network shirt .
Gundy has been under an intense firestorm after a photograph circulated of him wearing an OAN shirt , and star player Chuba Hubbard threatened boycott the team .
( RELATED : David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football ) Gundy , who already released a video with Hubbard , stated in part , “ Once I learned how that network felt about Black Lives Matter , I was disgusted and knew it was completely unacceptable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to all members of our team , former players and their families for the pain and discomfort that has been caused over the last two days.
” You can watch his full comments below .
It appears the BLM reference from Gundy is about comments from host Liz Wheeler from years ago , which she says were taken out of context and edited .
This is such a joke , but it ’ s not one we ’ re laughing about .
That much is for sure .
Mike Gundy is a good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue an apology for wearing a t-shirt representing a conservative news network .
Stop and think about how scary that is .
If they can make a famous coach apologize , then they can make anyone apologize for anything .
I really do hope this circus that is cancel culture comes to an end sooner rather than later .
We have a problem as society when we force people to apologize for something as simple as a t-shirt choice .
Now Gundy shares the same space as Dabo Swinney for coaches hammered for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a joke of a time to a sports fan .

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy has apologized for wearing a One America News Network shirt.
Gundy has been under an intense firestorm after a photograph circulated of him wearing an OAN shirt, and star player Chuba Hubbard threatened boycott the team. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
I will not stand for this.. This is completely insensitive to everything going on in society, and it’s unacceptable. I will not be doing anything with Oklahoma State until things CHANGE. https://t.co/psxPn4Khoq — Chuba Hubbard (@Hubbard_RMN) June 15, 2020
Gundy, who already released a video with Hubbard, stated in part, “Once I learned how that network felt about Black Lives Matter, I was disgusted and knew it was completely unacceptable to me. I want to apologize to all members of our team, former players and their families for the pain and discomfort that has been caused over the last two days.”
You can watch his full comments below.
It appears the BLM reference from Gundy is about comments from host Liz Wheeler from years ago, which she says were taken out of context and edited.
It seems a lot of you don’t quite understand why a major college football coach promoting OAN is a problem. OAN says Black Lives Matter is “a farce.” pic.twitter.com/ZcQ0Y65uMj — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 15, 2020
No, I said the MOVEMENT is a farce, which you would know if you didn’t selectively edit a video from four years to make it seem like I said something I didn’t. https://t.co/6lOsKMK1ts — Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) June 16, 2020
This is such a joke, but it’s not one we’re laughing about. That much is for sure. Mike Gundy is a good man, and he just had to issue an apology for wearing a t-shirt representing a conservative news network.
Stop and think about how scary that is. If they can make a famous coach apologize, then they can make anyone apologize for anything.
Change is coming I promise you that. pic.twitter.com/wTGHtByh3N — Chuba Hubbard (@Hubbard_RMN) June 15, 2020
I really do hope this circus that is cancel culture comes to an end sooner rather than later. We have a problem as society when we force people to apologize for something as simple as a t-shirt choice.
Now Gundy shares the same space as Dabo Swinney for coaches hammered for picking out the wrong shirt. What a joke of a time to a sports fan.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-16--50 Companies Headquartered in Texas Made Fortune 500 List

Fifty companies with headquarters located in Texas earned a place on Fortune magazine ’ s 2020 list ranking enterprises with the 500 highest fiscal-year revenues in the nation .
Exxon Mobil finished third on Fortune ’ s extended ranking , making the company the state ’ s highest revenue-generating company , according to the Fortune data that was released earlier this month .
Fortune includes in its listing publicly traded U.S. companies as well as private companies that file revenue figures with public agencies .
Exxon Mobil had revenues of $ 264.9 billion in the 2019 fiscal year , according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employees .
This month ’ s list of high-earning companies was the 66th such annual ranking published by Fortune .
All companies in the top 500 had revenues of at least $ 5.7 billion , which is a 1 percent increase over the previous year ’ s threshold .
Overall , the Fortune 500 companies make up about 66 percent of the nation ’ s total gross domestic product , with a combined $ 14.2 trillion in revenues , according to the analysis .
And the top 500 companies ’ profits were up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fortune reported .
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Fifty companies with headquarters located in Texas earned a place on Fortune magazine’s 2020 list ranking enterprises with the 500 highest fiscal-year revenues in the nation.
Exxon Mobil finished third on Fortune’s extended ranking, making the company the state’s highest revenue-generating company, according to the Fortune data that was released earlier this month. Fortune includes in its listing publicly traded U.S. companies as well as private companies that file revenue figures with public agencies.
Exxon Mobil had revenues of $264.9 billion in the 2019 fiscal year, according to the ranking. It employs 74,900 employees.
This month’s list of high-earning companies was the 66th such annual ranking published by Fortune. All companies in the top 500 had revenues of at least $5.7 billion, which is a 1 percent increase over the previous year’s threshold.
Overall, the Fortune 500 companies make up about 66 percent of the nation’s total gross domestic product, with a combined $14.2 trillion in revenues, according to the analysis. And the top 500 companies’ profits were up 8 percent over the previous year, Fortune reported.
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Top 100 American Companies, Based on Latest Revenue Data
Rank Company Headquarters Location Revenues (in Millions of $) Revenue % Change Over 2019 Profits (in Millions of $) Profits % Change Over 2019 # of Employees 1 Walmart Arkansas $523,964 1.9% $14,881 123.1% 2,200,000 2 Amazon.com Washington $280,522 20.5% $11,588 15.0% 798,000 3 ExxonMobil Texas $264,938 -8.7% $14,340 -31.2% 74,900 4 Apple California $260,174 -2.0% $55,256 -7.2% 137,000 5 CVS Health Rhode Island $256,776 32.0% $6,634 –% 290,000 6 Berkshire Hathaway Nebraska $254,616 2.7% $81,417 1924.8% 391,500 7 UnitedHealth Group Minnesota $242,155 7.0% $13,839 15.5% 325,000 8 McKesson Texas $214,319 2.9% $34 -49.3% 70,000 9 AT&T Texas $181,193 6.1% $13,903 -28.2% 247,800 10 AmerisourceBergen Pennsylvania $179,589 6.9% $855 -48.4% 21,500 11 Alphabet California $161,857 18.3% $34,343 11.7% 118,899 12 Ford Motor Michigan $155,900 -2.8% $47 -98.7% 190,000 13 Cigna Connecticut $153,566 215.7% $5,104 93.6% 73,700 14 Costco Wholesale Washington $152,703 7.9% $3,659 16.8% 201,500 15 Chevron California $146,516 -11.9% $2,924 -80.3% 48,200 16 Cardinal Health Ohio $145,534 6.4% $1,363 432.4% 49,500 17 JPMorgan Chase New York $142,422 8.4% $36,431 12.2% 256,981 18 General Motors Michigan $137,237 -6.7% $6,732 -16.0% 164,000 19 Walgreens Boots Alliance Illinois $136,866 4.1% $3,982 -20.7% 287,000 20 Verizon Communications New York $131,868 0.8% $19,265 24.1% 135,000 21 Microsoft Washington $125,843 14.0% $39,240 136.8% 144,000 22 Marathon Petroleum Ohio $124,813 28.5% $2,637 -5.1% 60,910 23 Kroger Ohio $122,286 0.9% $1,659 -46.7% 435,000 24 Fannie Mae Washington, D.C. $120,304 0.2% $14,160 -11.3% 7,500 25 Bank of America North Carolina $113,589 2.7% $27,430 -2.5% 208,131 26 Home Depot Georgia $110,225 1.9% $11,242 1.1% 415,700 27 Phillips 66 Texas $109,559 -4.1% $3,076 -45.0% 14,500 28 Comcast Pennsylvania $108,942 15.3% $13,057 11.3% 190,000 29 Anthem Indiana $104,213 13.1% $4,807 28.2% 70,600 30 Wells Fargo California $103,915 2.8% $19,549 -12.7% 259,800 31 Citigroup New York $103,449 6.5% $19,401 7.5% 200,000 32 Valero Energy Texas $102,729 -7.8% $2,422 -22.4% 10,222 33 General Electric Massachusetts $95,214 -20.8% -$4,979 –% 205,000 34 Dell Technologies Texas $92,154 1.7% $4,616 –% 165,000 35 Johnson & Johnson New Jersey $82,059 0.6% $15,119 -1.2% 132,200 36 State Farm Insurance Illinois $79,395 -2.9% $5,593 -36.4% 57,672 37 Target Minnesota $78,112 3.7% $3,281 11.7% 368,000 38 IBM New York $77,147 -3.1% $9,431 8.1% 383,800 39 Raytheon Technologies Massachusetts $77,046 15.9% $5,537 5.1% 243,200 40 Boeing Illinois $76,559 -24.3% -$636 -106.1% 161,100 41 Freddie Mac Virginia $75,125 2.1% $7,214 -21.9% 6,892 42 Centene Missouri $74,639 24.2% $1,321 46.8% 56,600 43 United Parcel Service Georgia $74,094 3.1% $4,440 -7.3% 377,640 44 Lowe’s North Carolina $72,148 1.2% $4,281 85.0% 260,000 45 Intel California $71,965 1.6% $21,048 –% 110,800 46 Facebook California $70,697 26.6% $18,485 -16.4% 44,942 47 FedEx Tennessee $69,693 6.5% $540 -88.2% 389,500 48 MetLife New York $69,620 2.5% $5,899 15.1% 49,000 49 Walt Disney California $69,570 17.1% $11,054 -12.3% 223,000 50 Procter & Gamble Ohio $67,684 1.3% $3,897 -60.0% 97,000 51 PepsiCo New York $67,161 3.9% $7,314 -41.6% 267,000 52 Humana Kentucky $64,888 14.0% $2,707 60.8% 46,000 53 Prudential Financial New Jersey $64,807 2.9% $4,186 2.7% 51,511 54 Archer Daniels Midland Illinois $64,656 0.5% $1,379 -23.8% 38,100 55 Albertsons Idaho $60,535 1.0% $131 183.2% 267,000 56 Sysco Texas $60,114 2.4% $1,674 17.0% 69,000 57 Lockheed Martin Maryland $59,812 11.3% $6,230 23.5% 110,000 58 HP California $58,756 0.5% $3,152 -40.8% 56,000 59 Energy Transfer Texas $54,213 -0.4% $3,592 112.0% 12,812 60 Goldman Sachs Group New York $53,922 2.7% $8,466 -19.1% 38,300 61 Morgan Stanley New York $53,823 7.2% $9,042 3.4% 60,431 62 Caterpillar Illinois $53,800 -1.7% $6,093 -0.9% 102,300 63 Cisco Systems California $51,904 5.2% $11,621 10464.5% 75,900 64 Pfizer New York $51,750 -3.5% $16,273 45.9% 88,300 65 HCA Healthcare Tennessee $51,336 10.0% $3,505 -7.4% 245,000 66 AIG New York $49,746 5.0% $3,348 –% 46,000 67 American Express New York $47,020 8.6% $6,759 -2.3% 64,500 68 Delta Air Lines Georgia $47,007 5.8% $4,767 21.1% 91,224 69 Merck New Jersey $46,840 10.7% $9,843 58.2% 71,000 70 American Airlines Group Texas $45,768 2.8% $1,686 19.4% 133,700 71 Charter Communications Connecticut $45,764 4.9% $1,668 35.6% 95,100 72 Allstate Illinois $44,675 12.2% $4,847 155.2% 46,035 73 New York Life Insurance New York $44,117 1.6% $1,004 14.1% 11,519 74 Nationwide Ohio $43,982 1.6% $830 61.9% 28,114 75 Best Buy Minnesota $43,638 1.8% $1,541 5.3% 125,000 76 United Airlines Holdings Illinois $43,259 4.7% $3,009 41.3% 96,000 77 Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Massachusetts $43,228 1.3% $1,044 -51.7% 45,000 78 Dow Michigan $42,951 –% -$1,359 –% 36,500 79 Tyson Foods Arkansas $42,405 5.9% $2,022 -33.1% 141,000 80 TJX Massachusetts $41,717 7.0% $3,272 6.9% 286,000 81 TIAA New York $40,454 -1.5% $2,460 57.6% 16,533 82 Oracle California $39,506 -0.8% $11,083 189.8% 136,000 83 General Dynamics Virginia $39,350 8.7% $3,484 4.2% 102,900 84 Deere Illinois $39,258 5.1% $3,253 37.4% 73,489 85 Nike Oregon $39,117 7.5% $4,029 108.4% 76,700 86 Progressive Ohio $39,022 22.0% $3,970 51.8% 41,571 87 Publix Super Markets Florida $38,463 5.7% $3,005 26.2% 207,000 88 Coca-Cola Georgia $37,266 17.0% $8,920 38.6% 86,200 89 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Massachusetts $37,253 -5.1% $3,701 830.1% 9,896 90 Tech Data Florida $36,998 -0.6% $375 10.0% 15,000 91 World Fuel Services Florida $36,819 -7.4% $179 40.1% 5,500 92 Honeywell International North Carolina $36,709 -12.2% $6,143 -9.2% 113,000 93 ConocoPhillips Texas $36,670 -5.3% $7,189 14.9% 10,400 94 USAA Texas $35,617 13.5% $4,006 74.8% 35,076 95 Exelon Illinois $34,438 -4.3% $2,936 46.1% 32,713 96 Northrop Grumman Virginia $33,841 12.4% $2,248 -30.4% 90,000 97 Capital One Financial Virginia $33,766 4.3% $5,546 -7.8% 51,900 98 Plains GP Holdings Texas $33,669 -1.1% $331 -0.9% 5,000 99 AbbVie Illinois $33,266 1.6% $7,882 38.6% 30,000 100 INTL FCStone New
Source: Fortune.com.
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