Baking with Dessert Darling, and other links

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• An Ugly and Complex Story: Norma McCorvey from Roe v. Wade Said She Was Paid to Change Her Views on Abortion -- “This reminds us of a logical and moral quandary that is as old as ancient Greece…If it is true that all Cretans are liars, then can you trust a Cretan when you are told that he or she is lying?”
• Baking with Dessert Darling Dolester Miles -- “Earlier this year, Dolester Miles took home gold at the James Beard Foundation’s annual awards, where she was named the most Outstanding Pastry Chef in the country.”
• Black Lives Matter leader declares war on police -- “...we want the immediate end of government sanctioned murder by the police. And we prepare to stop these government sanctioned murders by any means necessary.”
• Blexit -- “The Blexit movement aims to uplift and empower minorities to realize the American Dream.”
• Civil rights veteran: ‘Guilty white people and angry, rich, entitled blacks who continue to play the race card’ are destroying our country -- “And now, after 50 years of liberal Democrats running the inner cities, where we have all of these inequities that we have, race is being used as a ruse, as a means of deflecting attention away from critical questions such as why are poor blacks failing in systems ran by their own people if race was the issue, even the criminal justice system?”
• Damaged Gravestones -- “If you are photographing a gravestone that is partially unreadable due to cracking, look for family members on nearby gravestones and then link the data together.”
• History of the Woodson Center -- “...the Woodson Center has worked to bring recognition, training, and funding to community-based leaders and organizations to strengthen their efforts to uplift their neighborhoods...”
• Hot Chicken, Indian Style -- “My first impression of the iconic Nashville hot chicken is a memory I will never forget as it was filled with both laughter and tears...”
• Liberty University, once accused of being reckless for reopening during pandemic, finishes semester — with 0 coronavirus cases -- “In March, the Christian university came under heavy fire for its decision to resume classes.”
• Racial Reconciliation, the Gospel, and the Church -- “...diversity is not the same as gospel-centered racial reconciliation and the goal of gospel-centered racial reconciliation is not simply diversity.”
• Rand Paul Appears to Be Right about School Closures -- “Writing at Mother Jones, a left-leaning American magazine, Kevin Drum said an abundance of research supports Paul’s assertion that school closures are an ineffective way to contain the spread of COVID-19, and may actually increase deaths.”
• Riding the Cemetery Railroad -- “By placing the cemetery so far from the city with the railroad as the only means of transport, the LNC hoped to lock down a monopoly on London’s funeral business.”
• Shame on Justice John Roberts -- “One pastor whose church was forbidden even to meet at all demonstrated the absurdity of the restriction by taking his entire church to Wal-Mart, where his parishioners, all of them, were freely able to meet and mingle.”
• SHAPIRO: 11 Leftist Myths About Criminal Justice -- “In an effort to explain away continuing wealth and lifestyle differentials between racial groups, the Left has hit on a new narrative: the criminal justice system is to blame.”
• The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters -- “Politicians like Kamala Harris have even joined the protestors in the streets, doing what she demanded others avoid just a few weeks earlier.”
• The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 43% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population -- “Among states reporting their death totals, 42% of COVID deaths have taken place in long-term care facilities; we estimate the share as 43% for the full U.S. population, based on incorporating the demographics of the non-reporting states.”
• Top 10 Reasons I Won’t Support the #BlackLivesMatter Movement -- “You can’t talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no intention of forgiveness. I’m tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race theory paradigm. It’s not Gospel-centered.”