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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Some Policy Dentistry Could Combat Truth Decay
It cannot be a sign of social health that the number of tweets per day worldwide exploded from 5,000 in 2007 to 500 million six years later.
The Democratic Party of Today
As the Democrats grow increasingly ravenous to have a shot at the presidency of Donald Trump, they are beginning to train their guns on the frontrunners for the nomination.
High Taxes Produce a Moving Experience
One reason Democrats seem so fixated on importing illegal immigrants and allowing their children to stay and become citizens may be the exodus from high-tax and traditionally Democratic states.
Texas School District Wages Legal War Against Christian Cheerleaders
For the past six years a Texas school district has been waging legal warfare against a group of high school cheerleaders who wrote Bible verses on football run-through banners.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Taming the Tuition Tiger
Had tuition grown at a rate similar to the growth prior to 1978, college costs at state universities would be closer to just $5,000 today.
‘Secret Society’
Every day it seems there is a new bombshell about the Deep State efforts to overturn the 2016 election. Over the weekend we learned that the FBI was “missing” five months of text messages from Trump-hating agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who are at the center of the Deep State scandal.
Christianity Gets a Faith Lift ... From Harvard
Liberals have stuck to a pretty consistent strategy in dealing with American Christianity: If you repeat something often enough, people will start to believe it. With the media’s help, they set out to convince the country that evangelicals were dying on the political vine. But, as so often happens, they were proven wrong on the biggest of stages when, in 2016, the church’s “withering” influence proved to be anything but.
Trump Acknowledges National School Choice Week
President Trump continues to focus on and address the nation’s most deep-seated problems.
We Don’t Need Bad Law
President Donald Trump said, “We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts.”
Dreamers vs. Fetuses
The Democrats blinked in the first round of the government shutdown fight over immigration, but they promise to regroup and fight again for immigrants living in America illegally who came as minors.
What the Latest Stupid Government Shutdown Means
On Monday, Democrats caved on their manufactured government shutdown. In an attempt to generate a groundswell of support for a legislative re-enshrinement of former President Obama’s executive amnesty, Democrats filibustered a continuing resolution to fund the government.
NeverTrumpers Face Vexing Question: What to Make of Trump Successes?
The start of President Trump’s second year in office has given Republicans and conservatives an opportunity to review a solid list of achievements: corporate and individual tax cuts; economic growth; wage growth; a conservative Supreme Court justice; a record number of circuit court confirmations; deregulation; the defeat of ISIS and more.
Trump’s Wall Should Be a Bargaining Chip on Immigration
The Democrats’ crusade to force a government shutdown in order to win permanent protections for “Dreamers” went down in flames Monday.
Homeschooling Is Not a Crime
It’s elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With two million K-12 students now educated at home (including our 9th grade son), the temptation to exploit the most marginal cases of alleged child abuse by homeschoolers has proven irresistible to statist politicians and government apologists.
Will Republican Congress Do More for ‘Unlawful’ Than Unborn?
The great humanitarians gathered on the Senate floor this Sunday to demonstrate their passion for protecting “kids.”
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Forget Climate Change, Defend America!
George Orwell, call your office. In what the Huffington Post’s Alexander Kaufman called “an Orwellian rhetorical shift away from a scientific reality,” the Department of Defense “scrubbed its latest National Defense Strategy of all references to climate change.”
NFL Rejects Pro-National Anthem Ad From Veterans Group
I suggest that freedom-loving Americans stand up to the National Football League by turning off the Super Bowl.
President Trump: His First-Year Economic Record
In an article written 10 days after President Donald Trump’s election victory, I commented on the drop in the price of gold, which was mirrored by a spike in the dollar index. I surmised that the markets were signaling optimism about our country’s prospects in a Trump presidency.