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I heard someone once say that God is colorblind, so we should be also. But I don’t think God is colorblind. I think He made us all different because there’s beauty in variety. And yet, though He made us all different, He made us each in His image. I suggest that the real problem is not that we do see color when we shouldn’t, but that we don’t see the image of God in each other when we should.

When a man is on the ground for nine minutes, saying fifteen times that he can’t breathe and none of the officers who are supposed to protect and serve do anything about it, criminal or not, that’s because they don’t see the image of God in him. I don’t think those police officers set out that morning with the intention of killing anyone. But when you see people as less than what they are, you can’t help but treat them as less than what they are, and value them less than you do yourself and your loved ones. When Jesus said “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” He was demanding that we value the lives of others as much as we do our own.

I don’t mind saying Black Lives Matter. I’m proud to say it. And I don’t need the qualifier that “all lives matter,” because, for goodness sake, that’s understood. I don’t have to explain that I’m not saying the lives of one group are more important, or “matter” to the exclusion of others. Actually, I’m saying the exact opposite. And yes, there are a lot of people who preach “BLM” who are deliberately divisive and hypocritical, but so what? I’m not one of them. When I say “Black Lives Matter,” all I’m saying is that “I love you, and I care about you, too.”

I hope you can join me in praying for an end to racism in all its forms, for our country to heal, for love and peace and unity to prevail, and for us each to see the good, and the God, in each other.

God bless you all.

John Bolton is the Left's new favorite Trump defector, but his allegations that Trump tried to get the Chinese to "interfere with our elections" are at best specious, and at worst, outright silly.

There's this false story going around that Camden, New Jersey, once the most dangerous city in America, became much safer by "defunding the police." That's not what happened. In fact, there are far more police officers in Camden today.  In this video, our editor explains the real story.

When the Left eats their own, punishing other liberals for the sin of exercising free speech -- such as the recent forced resignations of the editor of the opinion pages of the New York Times, or the Philadelphia Inquirer --  it's hard not to experience some sort of satisfaction that the monster they created has turned on them.  Resist this temptation.  We conservatives must always support free speech and condemn the repression of speech wherever it is found.  Our free society is predicated on the free exchange of ideas, and if it is threatened anywhere it is threatened everywhere.

There are a lot of misunderstandings about the Supreme Court's DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) decision. This brief video explains it in simple terms: Basically, the Supreme Court said both that the Trump Administration needed to explain its decision to revoke, and that it did not want to hear the Trump Administration's explanation because it came after the original decision to revoke DACA was reached.

There's a lot about Colin Kaepernick to admire, and even emulate: he has the courage of his convictions, he's not afraid to stick his neck out, and he's a leader. And he's led the fight against police brutality. But he loses a lot of people, as well as credibility, with his admiration of police state tyrants like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, who imprisoned, brutalized, and murdered countless people for no reason other than political opposition. How can someone who fights against police brutality also lionize the ultimate police state brutality?

Instead of taking the position that institutional racism does not exist, we conservatives should agree that it does exist, and that the Democratic Party is almost exclusively to blame for all of the problematic institutions: our welfare system kicks black fathers out of the household, the public schools deny minority children an education, and our economic and foreign policy for the past several decades has been to export jobs, import the rest of the world's poverty, and leave our borders undefended, allowing drugs to flow into our cities and destroy them.  If we conservatives are serious about fighting racism and creating a fair, equal society for everyone, we must fight to promote our ideas, and explain how the Left's ideas are causing the very problems they decry.

The debate over whether there should be mandatory minimum sentences misses the point. There are obviously crimes which should require a jail sentence, and crimes that should not. The problem is that given the discretion, too many liberal judges let too many criminals get away with too much, and this leads to extremely dangerous cities, which is bad in and of itself. But it's also a primary driver of racial inequality, as poor people are forced to live in dangerous environments, and are victimized at extremely high rates, thanks to a revolving door criminal justice system.

Why is anybody surprised that the stock market is high despite all the economic struggles? Before the pandemic, the market was hitting record highs regularly. Then we got the virus and we pumped printed money into the economy at historic levels in anticipation of the end of the world, but the end of the world didn’t happen. So now the world is returning to normal, but all the extra money is still out there with nowhere else to go, so it’s inflating the market, and I think it’s going to keep going to extreme heights it’s never seen. We just printed way more than we needed. It’s like if someone ordered ten dump trucks of dirt to fill in a sinkhole, and after all the dirt was dumped it turned out the sinkhole wasn’t as deep as they thought and they really only needed two trucks, and now they have a giant pile of dirt when all they were trying to achieve was level ground.

Biden's basically committed to picking a woman of color, and that leaves three primary choices: Susan Rice -- who's basically the Left's version of Condolezza Rice: too wonky, uninspiring, and policy oriented instead of people oriented, and has no political base; Stacy Abrams, who's totally unqualified and will turn off far more voters than she brings in; and Kamala Harris, who has a solid background, a life story that is culturally consonant with African-Americans, and has experience on the biggest stage.