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Sunday, July 2, 2017
The Scars of Our Nation’s Violent Birth
Some American history museums belabor visitors with this message: You shall know the truth and it shall make you feel ashamed of, but oh-so-superior to, your wretched ancestors.
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Let Your Conscience Be Your GuideStar
For charity index GuideStar, the troubles didn’t end when its “hate banners” did. Although the nonprofit tracker finally took down the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) phony labeling from the conservative groups on its website, the backlash is still coming.
Freedom, Sacrifice and Fireworks
About an hour and a half’s drive from the White House, a cloistered nun tells me, from behind the grille that separates her physically from the world, about the freedom of her life.
America Shouts While Europe Shrugs
The U.S. media capitalize on division. Meantime, Parisians hardly notice a terror attack.
The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards
I’ve been a journalist for a long time. Long enough to know that it wasn’t always like this.
University to Remove Crosses, Bibles & Altar From Campus Chapel
East Central University said it will remove crosses, Bibles and other religious symbols from a campus chapel to appease a bunch of out-of-town agitators.
A New Strategy?
As Republicans struggle over the details of reforming Obamacare, President Trump suggested a new strategy. Friday morning, Trump tweeted, “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date.”
Special Elections Have Special Consequences
The Democrats were all ready to don their paper party hats and fling confetti in the air as soon as Jon Ossoff defeated Karen Handel in the special election to replace Tom Price, who had resigned in order to serve as President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Don’t Be Fooled, the Supreme Court Handed the President a Big Victory
There seems to be some debate over the extent of the victory that the Trump administration won on Monday when the Supreme Court stayed (or lifted) almost all of the injunctions issued against his revised executive order temporarily suspending entry of foreigners from six terrorist safe havens. But there is no doubt about it — this was a significant and substantial victory despite the fact that the Court left a small portion of the injunctions issued by the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal in place.
Tuning Out the Fake News Media
The stock market is soaring. The economy is improving and employment is up. But all you get from the Fake News Media (FNM) every night is more Trump bashing.
The Neglected Reagan
Does anyone really know Ronald Reagan? In his new book “The Working Class Republican,” a bracingly revisionist account of the 40th president, Henry Olsen answers “no.” One of the most astute political analysts at work today and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Olsen argues that Reagan’s politics bear the distinctive stamp of his origins as a New Deal Democrat.
Defense Debate: Trans, Plans, and Auto-Repeals
For the first time in years, House staffers didn’t need the blow-up mattresses they probably stashed in their offices for Wednesday night’s debate.
Talking With the Russians
There is nothing new or untoward in American and Russian leaders talking. President Franklin Roosevelt met Joseph Stalin at Yalta and referred to him as “Uncle Joe.”
Teen Magazines Launch the Pronoun Wars
Some of the most aggressive cultural propaganda today is coming from magazines for teenagers. The biggest crusade is about sex (yes, as soon as possible) and gender, where biology is completely negotiable, and incorrect or bizarre pronouns are nonnegotiable.
Masterpiece Cakeshop Is Fighting for the First Amendment, Not Against Gay Marriage
This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, the man who refused to create a specialty wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado in 2012. Yet the stories that dominate coverage distort the public’s understanding of the case and its serious implications.
Democrats — and Republicans — Lack Credibility on Economic Issues
Liberal writers and political operatives, now that it’s finally dawning on them that no one is going to find evidence that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to steal the presidential election, are turning to giving advice to the Democratic Party.
Beware the Motives of ‘Progressive’ Companies Acting Altruistically
Let me just say this at the outset: Mildred Dresselhaus, who died in February at the age of 86, was an amazing women. An accomplished physicist who won just about every scientific award short of the Nobel Prize, Dresselhaus was by all accounts a pioneer, patriot and great American.
Trump Demands Border Security
President Donald Trump hosted several families at the White House Wednesday. They were there for a special reason, and I guarantee that none of them wanted to be there for that reason.
Republicans Are Big-Government Party Too
We now have the answer to a question that has hung in the air for months: Why did the Republican leadership not have an Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan on the shelf and ready to go the minute the election went their way? Why didn’t they use the time since the law’s 2010 passage to craft the Republican alternative?
Tit for Tat
During the presidency of Barack Obama, the media gladly circulated his view that Republicans were hostage takers and terrorists. After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, journalists spilled a lot of ink covering Republican rhetoric and how it had fanned the flames of hate.