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Friday, August 4, 2017
Bill Nye: The Real Message We Should Pay Attention To
There was a minor uproar over a recent Bill Nye comment that is summed up in this article: “Bill Nye: Climate Change Scientists Need To Wait For Older People To Die.” But let’s look at this for what it really reveals.
The Continuing Threat to Religious Liberty
Two years to the day after the Supreme Court redefined marriage in Obergefell, the Court announced that it would hear a case about the extent to which private parties may be forced to embrace this new vision of marriage. The case involves Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex-wedding reception.
The Second Amendment Won in Washington; Why Won’t the Supreme Court Enforce It?
Washington, DC, residents, you don’t have to holster your Second Amendment rights anymore. Unfortunately, residents of many other states like California don’t have the same ability that DC residents now do to protect themselves.
Discipling Trump
Usually it takes a lot of boring three-yard runs and a thick cloud of dust to drive any important piece of legislation across the goal line in Washington. But at this late stage of the game QB Donald Trump and his Republican teammates are going to need a Hail Mary.
Stephen Miller TKOs Jim Acosta
When Donald Trump’s policy adviser Stephen Miller stepped into the White House briefing room Wednesday to defend a plan for reducing levels of legal immigration, Jim Acosta of CNN was aghast and let everyone know it.
Miller Gets ‘Acosted’
Trump Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller stepped up to the podium Wednesday in the White House Briefing Room to answer questions about the RAISE Act, legislation reforming the nation’s legal immigration system. He ended up getting accosted by a left-wing “attack dog” from the Clinton News Network, Jim Acosta.
Dems Invite Lifers to the Party
When the GOP stumbled on its biggest priority of the year, most people thought they’d handed the Left a huge political opportunity. Unfortunately for Democrats, they’re too busy fighting over abortion to seize it. While the Republicans walk a rocky road after the health care collapse, it’s not exactly a picnic at the DNC, where a civil war is brewing over the party’s decision to back 2018 pro-lifers.
Competing to Glamorize Abortion
The website Deadline reports that there are not one but two movie projects attempting to glorify an underground abortion collective in Chicago that operated in the four years before the 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision legalizing abortion.
Get Government Out of the College Discrimination Business
According to The New York Times, the civil rights division of the Trump administration’s Justice Department is going to ramp up investigating and sue universities over affirmative-action admissions policies deemed discriminatory against “white applicants.”
Ignoring the Lessons of Effective Presidents
Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in framing issues and advancing their policies, achieving foreign policy success, winning re-election and maintaining high job approval.
Mattress Girl Discredited
If you haven’t heard of the “mattress girl,” it’s not for lack of trying among liberal opinion-shapers. Emma Sulkowicz, who dragged a blue mattress around Columbia University’s campus in 2014 to dramatize her plight as a rape victim, was profiled sympathetically in New York magazine, The New York Times and other publications.
Once Again, the Guardrails Hold
A future trivia question and historical footnote, the spectacular 10-day flameout of Anthony Scaramucci qualifies as the most entertaining episode yet of the ongoing reality show that is the Trump presidency.
The Summer of ’76: Ronald Reagan and Karol Wojtyla — Two Freedom Fighters in America
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła arrived in the United States for a six-week visit in the summer of 1976. The Polish cardinal came to America that bicentennial summer for a festive celebration of intimacy with Jesus: the Church’s Forty-First International Eucharistic Congress. It was held in Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress had declared independence two hundred years earlier. He traveled throughout the United States, visiting cities big and small. He began his trek in Boston, home of revolutionary patriots.
Major Acosta Fail
On Wednesday, CNN’s Jim Acosta unwittingly demonstrated the difference between an unbiased, truth-seeking media and a biased, hostile and advocacy media.
Trump v.1.3
It seems ages ago, but in reality, it has only been a little over six months since Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to Donald J. Trump. His first term is not even a year old, but he is on the third big change in his White House.
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Students Outraged After University Moves 9/11 Memorial
For the past two years, the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Southern Methodist University displayed nearly 3,000 American flags on a prominent university lawn to remember those killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But Old Glory won’t be posted on the Dallas Hall Lawn this year — even though the display had been well-received by the student body.
America First
President Trump yesterday announced his support for the RAISE Act, legislation reforming the nation’s legal immigration system. The RAISE Act is co-sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA). If enacted, the measure would reduce legal immigration by 50%. That may sound like a lot because it is a lot.
Coast Guard Fails to Buoy Trans Cause
Liberals have spent the last week insisting that Donald Trump’s military policy is wrong — but they certainly haven’t come up with any compelling reasons why.
Contract With Republicans
In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, Republicans swept both houses of Congress, running on Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America,” in which the GOP promised to hold votes on 10 popular policies in the first 100 days.
Trump? What About the ‘Chaos’ in the Clinton White House?
In a newspaper piece about a White House in turmoil, a prominent paper described an atmosphere of beleaguered aides confused by their unscripted boss, a man who needed a “rudder on what many believed was a loose and listing ship.”