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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
No, China Isn’t Going to Lead
The world has had its delusions about China over the years, but none quite as fantastical as the notion of Beijing assuming the mantle of global leadership.
Mission Impassable: GOP Tries for Health Fix
Is it a vote on health care — or a vote to stay in power? It’s both, according to a lot of Republicans. Keeping their promise to America may be the only way to keep their control of Congress.
Life Is Worth Fighting For
The story of Charlie Gard is sparking outrage throughout the world. As the Wall Street Journal put it, the doctors who are caring for 11-month-old Charlie Gard “have won judges’ permission to discontinue life support despite his parents’ objections, saying his rare genetic disorder can’t be effectively treated and that keeping him on a ventilator could be causing him pain.”
The Serpents Are Surfacing
If you want to read what official Washington thinks, you need only pick up a copy of the Washington Post. It’s the company newsletter for the federal government. And the Post is filled with doomsday articles about President Donald Trump’s administration.
Comey’s Crimes?
A bombshell report broke Sunday night in The Hill newspaper. It was built on the bombshell dropped by fired FBI Director James Comey during his televised hearing when we first learned that the chief investigator of leaks was himself the leaker-in-chief.
Why the Greens Hate Nuclear Power
Let’s stretch our imaginations for a moment and assume that the left is right that global warming will bring apocalyptic warming by the end of the century and that the only way to save the planet from extinction is to stop using fossil fuels right now.
For Trump Critics, to Follow Is to Lead
President Trump’s performance at the G-20 summit in Germany produced a wave of commentary claiming the United States has abdicated its role as world leader.
President Trump’s Vision
In 1987 when he was contemplating a run for president, Vice President George H.W. Bush was criticized for his inability to articulate an agenda for the country. A friend suggested he spend a weekend alone at Camp David to figure out where he would take the nation.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Trump’s Warsaw Triumph
It was easily the best speech of his presidency — well-written and moving, soaked in Polish history and grounded in Western values. And yet it has been attacked for, as one liberal outlet put it, sounding “like an alt-right manifesto.”
There Is Always Hope
“Poland is VERY pretty at night, and the Polish people are nice too. Now I know why both Hitler and Stalin invaded #Poland in WWII.” I confess, reading that parody of a Donald Trump tweet on Twitter before I’d had coffee, I believed for a moment it was actually written by our president.
The Playground Fight Over Religious Liberty
Trinity Lutheran Church is a church in Columbia, Missouri that operates a Christian preschool and daycare center offering students a playground for recess and exercise during the school day. It recently found itself in a major case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
From Normalizing Bill Clinton to Normalizing Donald Trump
“At some point I’m gonna be so presidential that you people will be so bored,” Donald Trump took to telling campaign rallies and TV interviewers in the spring of 2016. “I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people, I’ll have about 150 people. And they’ll say: ‘But, boy, he really looks presidential!’” Of course it was never Trump’s intention to “come back as a presidential person” — that was the whole point of his smirking declaration. Seriousness and self-control don’t fill arenas with pumped-up crowds, and for Trump the crowds have always been the priority.
Are Conservatives Too Civil?
I’ve had my own problems with President Trump’s tweets. But he stirred up a major brouhaha by tweeting a few choice comments about MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and his fiancée/co-host, Mike Brzezinski, with even some conservatives joining in the attack, insisting that Trump wasn’t behaving in a presidential manner.
A Challenge to Energy Dominance: There’s No Free Market for Oil
The U.S. shale industry is nothing if not resilient. OPEC — a cartel of petrostates holding the world’s largest and cheapest oil reserves — leverages state control over its oil resources to undermine America’s competitive producers. Thanks to its latest moves, the U.S. energy industry is again under pressure, reminding us that we must take stronger action to ensure our energy security and energy sovereignty. We can boost these efforts by forming an OPEC Commission, which will appoint a panel of experts to study OPEC’s impact on the U.S. economy and offer recommendations to the president and Congress to protect American interests.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
A Measure to Rein in Medicaid’s ‘Mission Gallop’
Were it not for the provision that Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, put into the Senate’s proposed health care reform, this legislation would be moderately important but hardly momentous. Toomey’s provision, however, makes it this century’s most significant domestic policy reform.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Congress Must Act to Strengthen Trump’s Order on Religious Liberty
President Trump’s executive order on free speech and religious liberty, while welcome, is rather weak. It is woefully inadequate in meeting the challenges of our time.
Oregon Trails Public With Free Abortion
While Republicans hammer out their health care plan in DC, Oregon officials already decided what they’ll include in theirs: “free” abortions. To the dismay of pro-lifers, Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced Thursday that she plans to ink her name on one of the most radical bills in the country — a measure forcing health insurers to offer no-cost abortions not just to legal immigrants but to illegal ones too! The move, which comes as U.S. Senate leaders put the finishing touches on a federal plan that would end a mandate like Brown’s, incensed local conservatives who are already living under the most extreme abortion policies in America.
On Health Care, a Promise, Not a Threat
McConnell warns GOP senators they may end up having to work with the Democrats. They should.
A Real Scandal
Secretary of Defense James Mattis responded to North Korea’s latest ICBM test by saying, “The military remains ready ... to provide options if they are necessary.” One of those options may include bolstering the THAAD missile defense system President Trump recently dispatched to South Korea.
Homage to the Flag
I wrote this piece several years ago, but I believe it bears repeating, especially when so many ingrates appear to take America for granted or, worse yet, regard the greatest nation ever devised by man and God with suspicion or even contempt.