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UK view: The PC Myth Harvey Obliterated

The heroism shown by ordinary Texans after Hurricane Harvey is a great antidote to the prejudices expressed by well-off liberals towards deplorable Americans, notes Sean Collins at the British site Spiked. While the politically correct view depicts the nation divided by race, the scenes from Houston told a different story a black officer wading through floodwaters with a white child in each arm, a SWAT officer saving a Vietnamese woman and her baby and three Asian and Hispanic constables moving an elderly woman in a wheelchair. Unlike PC liberals, Collins adds, most people dont see life through a racial prism. In response to Harvey, we didnt see the diversity of essentially different people we saw citizens helping citizens, Texans helping Texans.

Tech report: Beware of Googles Enormous Power

The story of the New America Foundation firing staff for criticizing Google, a major funder of the think tank, sounded familiar, writes Kashir Hill at Gizmodo. Six years ago, while working at Forbes, she was pressured to unpublish a critical piece about Googles monopolistic practices after the company got upset about it. And that article stayed unpublished. Even more disturbing is that soon after, search results stopped showing the piece at all. Scraped versions could still be found, but the traces of my original story vanished. Hill admits she doesnt have hard evidence proving Google manipulated results an almost dystopian abuse of its power. But the story Google didnt want people to read swiftly became impossible to find through Google.

Political scribe: GOP Needs Bogeyman for Midterms

Like most politics of recent years, warns Michelle Cottle at The Atlantic, next years midterm elections promise to be wild and weird, since its increasingly looking like whichever team more furiously fires up its base will come out on top. Democrats have it easy: Aim squarely at President Trump. But for Republicans, coming up with a suitably electrifying bogeyman could prove challenging. And with no obvious Democratic stars to target, Republicans are left focusing mostly on tired standbys. Theres one obvious target: the prospect of Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker once again. Her unpopularity in key districts is the gift that never stops giving. And while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be history ... the GOP bases hatred for them is still red-hot.

Activist: Imprisoned for Wanting a Free Venezuela

Writing for The New York Times from a prison cell in the dungeons of the Venezuelan secret police, Yon Goicoechea offers a dramatic first-hand account of what Venezuelans, particularly dissenters like him, suffer under the regime. As he was set to speak at a Popular Will party news conference a year ago, he was taken by armed guards and locked in a cell without light or natural ventilation. Worm-infested food and scraps of clothing covered in feces lay on the floor. It felt as if I had been buried alive. Such is the punishment for many Venezuelans who dare to dream of a democratic society, free of Communism and open to the global community. All they want is free elections, good governance, free expression, judicial independence, personal security and a modicum of economic liberty that is, what so many other people around the world take for granted.

Economist: Tax Reform Conservatives Can Back

As Washington gets set for tax reform, economics prof Aaron Hedlund at National Review suggests Republicans avoid playing small ball and seize the opportunity to craft bold tax reform that tilts the balance of power back from D.C. to the American people. He lays out several principles: limit spending, aim for simplicity, insist on permanence rather than temporary patches and gimmickry. Republicans must also take the social-justice fight to the Democrats. They should point out that liberals obsession with using the tax code for social engineering and redistribution is responsible for the very favoritism that currently exists in the tax code: big business over small business, cohabiting couples over married couples, and so on. The GOP can provide an alternative by pushing for a level playing field.

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