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Saturday, January 20, 2018
March for Life
In spite of headlines about shutdowns and power plays, the most unselfish movement in America, the pro-life movement, came to Washington, DC, yesterday. This movement seeks nothing for itself. It serves only to give voice to the most defenseless human beings in our society, innocent unborn children.
Friday, January 19, 2018
The Immigration Blame Game
Has anyone else had it up to here with the way DC conducts business? The budget is the primary vehicle for framing the role of government, but all we hear is whom will be to blame for a government shutdown if a budget agreement isn’t reached. Of course, it’s simply a glorified statement of the obvious that it’s all politics all the time. Both sides do it, but the Democrats have turned it into an art form, primarily because they have always won the perception game.
Don’t Believe the Myths About Dreamers
The media have done an outstanding job of creating a winsome stereotype of the nearly 700,000 beneficiaries of Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Trump Is Not a Despot
It hasn’t been easy recently to make an attack against President Donald Trump that is over-the-top enough to stand out from the run-of-the-mill hysteria, but outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake managed it.
Fake News Awards
Wednesday night, President Trump announced the winner of the “Fake News Awards.” Frankly, all the contenders deserve gold medals. They each played a big role in driving the 90% negative coverage of the president.
Trump to HHS: Proceed With Conscience
Trump is closing the chapter on one of the worst assaults on religious liberty in a generation.
21st-Century Slavery
It is actually remarkable that one of the things conservatism has preserved the best in the United States is a culture of life.
Does the California Model Really Work?
The alleged success of the California model is one of the more intense controversies in the nerdier corners of public policy debate.
The Furious Fake News of Feminist Novelists
Since 1973, liberal feminists have celebrated the “right to choose abortion” without admitting the horror — over 60 million lives have violently and prematurely ended since the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade.
Tough Road Ahead for Trump in Year Two
As we reach, gingerly, the anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, none of the disasters feared by critics has come to pass.
Donald Trump’s Greatest Gift Is His Enemies
Every morning, it seems, President Donald Trump’s most determined opponents awake to find out what sort of obnoxious, fact-challenged, puerile, norm-breaking thing he has offered that day and say to themselves: “Oh, that’s nothing. We can do something dumber than that!”
The Press Is Not Above Reproach
At the risk of sending the Left into a state of apoplexy, a monolithic, biased, renegade, politicized press is a far greater threat to liberty than a president criticizing the media.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Of Chocolates and Climate Change
Chocolate lovers across the world had a shocking beginning to their new year when they were informed of the coming chocolate apocalypse. The chief suspect again — climate change.
The Cosmetology Cops
Hair isn’t the only thing that needs to be cut. So does big government.
Judge Upholds Alabama Voter ID Law in Win for Common Sense
A federal judge in Alabama has thrown out a lawsuit against the state’s voter ID law, finding that the law doesn’t prevent anyone from voting because “nearly the entire population of registered voters in Alabama already possess a photo ID that can be used for voting.”
Trump’s S—storm
The world fell on Donald Trump’s head — yet again — when he said in a White House meeting that we should be trying to get immigrants from Norway rather than s—hole countries in the Third World.
Abraham Lincoln on the Suicide of America
If politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart famously quipped, a corollary could be that hatred for President Trump is downstream from hatred for America.
A Clean Bill of Health
As you may have heard, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, delivered what must have been the fullest report on the health of any president in modern history. Unfortunately, I have to tell you that there was evidence of mental instability and cognitive failure. Not by the president but by the members of the White House press corps. Most of them are suffering from a new disease for which there appears to be no vaccine — Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Putting First Things First With Freedom
Religious liberty isn’t found in political proclamations but in the policies they inspire. In the last administration, the challenge wasn’t getting leaders to acknowledge Religious Freedom Day, it was getting them to practice it the other 364. That’s finally changed under Donald Trump, who wasted no time in beginning the process of repairing the foundation his predecessor destroyed.
Good News vs. Private Conversations
Last week the headlines should have abounded with the year’s good news. It was the economy: gross domestic product was up some 3 percent and, for the last quarter, nearly 4 percent; unemployment was down to a 17-year low, with black unemployment at the lowest level since such statistics were compiled.