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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Trade Deals Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights
Donald Trump is now deep into trade negotiations with China and NAFTA 2.0 negotiations with Canada and Mexico.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Valedictorian: ‘They Told Me I Had to Take Christ Out of My Speech’
Sam Blackledge had worked hard on his valedictorian address. He had written a wonderful speech declaring to his teachers and classmates that he is a follower of Jesus Christ. But administrators at West Prairie High School in Illinois would not let the 18-year-old deliver that speech because the content was not appropriate for a high school graduation ceremony.
A Teaching Moment
As atrocious as the public school system — which should more appropriately be called the federal indoctrination system — happens to be, you would think that many more conservative parents would take advantage of such options as private and religious schools. Unfortunately, some of them can be quite expensive, though still a puny expense when weighed against the eventual cost of college.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Battling Campus Oppression of the Freedom of Expression
On election night 2016, Mark Schlissel, the University of Michigan’s president, addressed more than 1,000 students, declaring that the 90 percent of them who had favored the losing candidate had rejected “hate.”
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Trump’s New Regs Move Tax Dollars Away From Abortion
It’s a big day in Washington where an injustice a quarter of a century in the making is finally being corrected.
Foster Kids Need Our Help
Adoption and foster care must be the priority of anyone who considers themselves pro-life.
President Wants Market Reforms to Reduce Drug Prices
President Donald Trump continues to address the American people’s practical needs. Now, he is out to reduce drug costs with his latest initiative “American Patients First.”
Insect-Borne Diseases Spreading in the United States? Blame EPA, Not Exxon
Last fall Politico ran a special feature on global health that featured a graphic presentation of increased incidence of insect-borne diseases in the United States from 2004 to 2013, blaming the increase on global warming.
More Reason for a Climate Ambulance Chaser Watch: Summer
Those who’ve known me through the years know that my go-to line at the end of any video I do is “Enjoy the weather. It’s the only weather you got.” It is sort of a happy-go-lucky line, because I like being happy, and weather has always been a source of great joy to me.
A Dog’s Breakfast of a Dinner
The Correspondents’ Association fête isn’t just bad, it’s bad for America. Let this one be the last.
It’s Time to Make Congress Prove It Can Curb Its Out-of-Control Spending Habit
Even Americans who don’t see eye to eye on every issue agree on one thing: Our elected officials shouldn’t live by a different set of rules than the rest of us do.
It’s Been One Year Since Mueller Began His Investigation. It’s Past Time for It to Wrap Up
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of Robert Mueller’s appointment as a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether the Russian government coordinated its activities with associates of candidate Donald Trump.
Dates of Infamy
After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, to be “a day of infamy.” On Sept. 11, 2001, when a gang of Islamic terrorists crashed four airliners into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing 3,000 Americans, the nation mourned yet another sneak attack.
Another School Shooting
I was at the White House Friday morning for a meeting on prison reform when news broke about another school shooting.
Friday, May 18, 2018
The Russia Temptation
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota, uttered a forlorn sentiment at a Center for American Progress conference. She said Democrats can’t spend all their time bemoaning President Donald Trump’s existence and that her voters care more about soybean exports than Russian bots.
They Hate, Trump Wins
Donald Trump’s many enemies are becoming more and more frustrated.
One Year Later
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating alleged Trump/Russian collusion in the 2016 election for one year now, and he has little to show for it.
Christian Colleges Press Their Suit on Mandate
On Obamacare’s eighth birthday, most Americans probably wanted to blow out the candles and wish it all away. The courts have certainly tried. Almost 100 lawsuits into this miserable failure, Obama’s train wreck of a health care law isn’t just unpopular with the American people but with judges too.
Media Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Clash Is Built on a Myth
No matter how often Hamas tells us that rioters on the Israel-Gaza border are armed, the media keeps referring to them as “protesters” and “demonstrators.”
North Korea Is Acting Up Because Trump Has It Cornered
A cornered animal roars, precisely because it is cornered.