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Join us each week as we share the latest thought provoking articles from The Group here on "The Group View".
Timely and always to the point, "The Group's View" Blog includes Tom Rogan, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift and Clarence Page plus an on-going array of recent guests and thought leaders discussing the hottest issues concerning our nation and world today.
Tom Rogan
May 28, 2020
Looters dishonor George Floyd
Those who looted businesses in Minneapolis late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning are not protesters, they are criminals. They are, in that regard, the antithesis of that which George Floyd deserves.
Because the facts suggest that George Floyd deserves a lot. As James Gagliano, former FBI-Hostage Rescue Team agent, notes for the Washington Examiner, the conduct of the officer who appears to be responsible for Floyd's death is exceptionally alarming. Gagliano identifies the need for a robust inquiry and, if necessary, further actions to hold culpable persons responsible for Floyd's demise. The FBI is now conducting just that investigation.
Pat Buchanan
May 26, 2020
Jinping Takes Up the US Challenge
How did we allow ourselves to get into this position where a lately backward China is suddenly a greater rival for global hegemony than was the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev?
Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War — this time with China?
Eleanor Clift
May 15, 2020
How Susan Collins’ Small Business Bill Helped Bail Out Big Ones
She's locked in a tough reelection fight and running ads claiming credit for the program to support small businesses. But she helped open it up to big ones that jumped the line.
Senator Susan Collins is fighting for her political life with a new television ad that says “in a time of crisis, real leaders step forward. Others disappear.”
Clarence Page
May 26, 2020
Column: Hey, Joe Biden, sometimes it’s best to leave black humor to black people
Joe Biden has been pushing back against the backlash that came after he made racially volatile remarks Friday during a radio interview. That’s what he gets for trying to be funny.
“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” the former vice president cheerfully declared at the end of a live interview with host Charlamagne Tha God on the popular radio and online program “The Breakfast Club.”