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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Trump Demands Action
As we noted yesterday, President Trump is demanding action from the Justice Department after multiple media outlets reported that the Obama administration had an informant spying on his presidential campaign. Late in the day, the president summoned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray to the White House.
BSA Scouts Out New Condom Policy
What kind of fire is the Boy Scouts teaching kids to start? Angry parents want to know now that the organization is making condoms an official part of its World Jamboree.
How the Russia Investigation Helps Trump
This week, for the first time in months, a generic ballot poll showed Republicans beating Democrats in the midterm elections.
So They Were Spying on Trump’s Campaign
Months ago, the Old Media proclaimed that President Donald Trump was more than a bit nutty in insisting his campaign was the subject of surveillance by the Obama administration.
The Innocence Project
On TV crime shows like “CSI,” “NCIS” and “Law & Order,” science gets the bad guys.
Crapweasel of the Week: Educrat Arne Duncan
Education overlord Arne Duncan is now championing the radical idea of parents exercising their autonomy to do what’s best for their children.
From Russia With Love
Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump and the Russians colluded to rig the 2016 presidential election so far has borne little fruit.
Mueller Appointment Is Unconstitutional
Three months after President Franklin Roosevelt named Robert Jackson attorney general, Jackson addressed a gathering of U.S. attorneys.
Conspiracy Theorists in Trump-Russia Investigation See Black and White in an Ocean of Gray
The Trump presidency is often a kind of political “Rashomon,” with partisans on either side looking at the same facts and coming to wildly different conclusions.
Is the Trump Tower Meeting Really Proof of Collusion?
If there is an Exhibit A in the case that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to fix the presidential election, it is the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between three top campaign officials — Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner — and a group of Russians who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
School Shootings and a Generation Adrift
Another mass shooting, more innocent lives lost and more communities shattered. America struggles to understand why the violence continues. What are we missing?
Trump Has Had One of the Most Successful Starts of Any New President
Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.
Now’s the Time to Restore Integrity to EPA Regulatory Science
For decades the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has gotten away with creating regulations that lack sound scientific basis, costing Americans hundreds of billions of dollars without solid evidence that those costs were justified.
Equality of Results Is an Unachievable Goal, So Stop Already!
The New York Times recently published a profile piece on clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson, claiming Peterson is the “pedigreed voice” of those cretins who wish to undermine efforts by liberals to promote equality.
Santa Fe, the Human Heart, and the Need for God
It was one of the last pictures ever taken of Christian Garcia. With the sun on his face, the Santa Fe teenager leaned his head on the wooden slats that would one day be his bedroom. On the framing of the house he’ll never live in, Christian had taken a sharpie and written Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
Trump Demands Spy Investigation
The Russia collusion investigation took another bizarre turn this weekend. As we have reported, there was stunning news in recent days that the FBI may have had an informant or a spy working inside the Trump campaign. Over the weekend, that informant was publicly identified by several news outlets as Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper.
Want to Fire Your Congressman? There’s a Fund for That
Norbert Richter, an engineer whose business is the construction of ultra-light turbine helicopters, has a knack for getting innovative contraptions off the ground.
The GOP’s Fear Factor
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he could not have foreseen today’s Republican Party.
Why the Left Won’t Call Anyone ‘Animals’
Leftism consists almost entirely of moral-sounding platitudes.