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I first met Norma McCorvey some 20 years ago, soon after her Christian conversion. That conversion set her against the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion, and in which she was the plaintiff.
What is it about new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that so bothers Democrats that not a single Democratic Senator voted to confirm her, requiring Vice President Mike Pence to cast the deciding vote?
According to press reports, the topic of Historically Black Colleges and Universities came up in the recent "listening session" at the White House with President Trump and his internal team of black leaders, as part of Black History Month. Reportedly, this piqued the president's interest and the discussion continued after the meeting formally concluded, with presidential aide Omarosa Manigault announcing to the media that she is working on an executive order to help the HBCUs.
On June 15, 2012, President Obama signed an executive order to protect those who arrived illegally to the United States as minors. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals provides a two-year window to shield these people from deportation and allow them to work. They must have been under 16 when they arrived, be in school or have completed school, and have no criminal record.
I wonder why when hundreds of thousands of women show up in Washington to demonstrate for what one Wall Street Journal columnist called "everything under the progressive sun," the press goes bonkers with coverage. Yet, when similar numbers of pro-lifers reportedly show up for the March for Life, as they have been doing every January since the Roe v. Wade decision in January 1973, and as they will do again this week, they barely get a nod from the media.
The confirmation hearings of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General, provided plenty of drama that can help explain why racial tensions never seem to go away in America.
Actress Meryl Streep's political diatribe at the Golden Globes awards isn't the only surprise attention-getting provocation from the event. Nominee film "Hidden Figures," a box-office hit about the true story of three black women mathematicians who played important roles at NASA in the early days of the space program, is also generating unexpected controversy.
As we enter 2017, the Democratic Party has good reason to be concerned. In Washington, Republicans now control the White House and both houses of Congress. Thirty-three governors are Republicans, and Republicans control both houses of state legislatures in 32 states whereas Democrats control both chambers in just five.
The U.S. refuses to veto an anti-Israel UN Security Council resolution.
While Christians across America were preparing for the Christmas holiday, the Obama administration threw its sympathies and support to those who oppress Christians in the cradle of Christianity — Bethlehem and elsewhere.
In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, more than half of respondents, 52 percent, said that Donald Trump will either not change the way business is done in Washington or will bring the "wrong kind of change." This may sound negative, but the fact that 48 percent believe positive change will occur points toward a meaningful note of hope and optimism.
With the nomination of business executive Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, to be labor secretary, president-elect Donald Trump has picked a businessman who is economically literate and who understands the power of freedom and capitalism.
With the selection by President-elect Donald Trump of Dr. Ben Carson to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, we have a brilliant man of principle cast to step in to lead a $50 billion federal department with nationwide impact.
If the teachers unions are outraged by Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as the new secretary of education, our president-elect must have made a good choice.
Among the factors that drove the electoral victory of Donald Trump was his very strong support from evangelical Christians. Trump won the white evangelical vote 81 percent to 16 percent. This was a higher percentage of the evangelical vote than received by the last three Republican presidential candidates. And one very strong factor driving this evangelical vote was concern about the Supreme Court.
At President Obama's recent press conference, he was, not surprisingly, peppered with questions regarding president-elect Donald Trump.
A friend of mine told me a few months ago what he expected the headlines would read the day after the presidential election. "Lucifer beats Satan." His point, of course, was that, as never before, the key idea that the USA is a free nation under God, has never been pushed further off the political stage. There was no pretense, no hint in this election, about the ideal of America aspiring to be a "shining city on a hill," the phrase of Christian pilgrim John Winthrop, often referred to by President Reagan. If the discourse of this election reflects what is happening in our nation, we have lost touch with our principles and ideals.
The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan — ambassador, senator and presidential advisor — once observed that "you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts." To a sober, rational individual, this seems sensible. Implicit is an assumption — which also seems fair and reasonable — that there is something called reality, consisting of facts that exist independent of opinions, wishes or attitudes.
It's a rare day when the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post are of one mind. But it just happened. Each of these newspapers, with the largest circulations in the country, and with views on the right and the left, weighed in with unanimity, criticizing the recent resolution of the NAACP calling for a moratorium on expansion of charter schools. The NAACP wants to freeze expansion of charter schools until, according to the resolution, they meet the same "transparency and accountability standards as public schools," no longer compete for the same public funds as public schools, don't reject students that public schools accept, and that evidence of segregation is no longer evident.
I have been speaking on university campuses across America for more than 20 years. By my count, I have appeared on 215 different university campuses. I can address the issue of freedom of speech on campuses from firsthand experience. I have been canceled, obstructed, and, on more than one occasion, hecklers have tried to shout me down. What I find distressing today is that the situation is getting worse. The theme is consistent. It is the left, operating under the pretense of fairness and freedom, that is the force of obstruction and intimidation. It is the left that works, usually starting from the office of the sympathetic president, to shut down dissent and alternative points of view.
