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Friday, June 30, 2017
Why Do They Even Play the Game?
In mathematics, when you’re convinced of some eternal truth but can’t quite prove it, you offer it as a hypothesis (with a portentous capital H) and invite the world, future generations if need be, to prove you right or wrong. Often, a cash prize is attached.
Religious Hostility in America Surged Under Obama
It’s hard to believe American teenagers could be arrested for delivering a prayer, but that’s the kind of nation we live in — a nation that was fundamentally transformed by the previous presidential administration.
Mark Levin’s ‘Rediscovering Americanism’
My friend Mark Levin is nothing if not a patriot of the first order. He loves the United States and its founding principles — and his latest book, “Rediscovering Americanism,” explains his passion and encourages ours.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Hate Crime! Vile Thug Destroys Ten Commandments Monument
A Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol has been destroyed less than 24 hours after it was erected.
How to Write a Love Letter to Your Kids
The emails are still coming in about the column I wrote Father’s Day week discussing the need for dads to write a love letter to each of their children. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, because the chapter of my book “30 Ways in 30 Days to Strengthen Your Family” that has generated the most interest is the one encouraging parents to create a written treasure for their sons and daughters — a treasure they just might keep for the rest of their lives.
Libs Set Their Minds at Dees
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has plenty of money — it’s allies the group is running out of. The end of the Obama era not only brought about an end to the red-carpet treatment; it would appear tide is also turning against the phony civil rights group, and no one is more surprised than SPLC itself.
Urban America’s Underclass: More Money Won’t Solve the Problems
PBS NewsHour aired a story last year about Milwaukee, saying many residents call the city “the worst place to be a black man in America.” It talked about last year’s riots in the city after a cop shot a black man. One black Milwaukee resident explained that this is “what happens when you inflict poverty” on poor black residents. “Inflict poverty”?
The Founders and the Presidents: A July Fourth Reflection
It’s time to watch fireworks displays, sing patriotic songs, and ruminate about our country’s rich heritage and history. It’s time to celebrate America’s national birthday.
The Left’s Health Care Rhetoric Is Unhinged
Remember how liberal politicians promised to tone down the partisan rhetoric after a heavily armed Bernie Sanders fan opened fire on GOP lawmakers taking batting practice on June 14? Remember how they signed on to a “pledge of civility?” Remember how they said they would use the near-massacre as a jolt that “brings us together”?
Freeing Us From the Islamic State Group and Sharia
Do I detect a note of desperation in some of my fellow Americans’ discussions on how to treat terrorism, specifically the terrorist group the Islamic State group?
Even Trump Couldn’t Make Goldman Sachs Popular
Having pulled off the monumental achievement of getting elected with zero help from Wall Street, President Trump is at risk of throwing it all away. He seems to be turning his White House over not only to liberal Democrats but to the very type of liberal Democrats he railed against on the campaign trail.
‘Repeal and Replace’? Try ‘Tweak and Move On.’
Two Junes ago, when the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, a challenged provision of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, vented: “Congress wrote key parts of the Act behind closed doors.
Two Wins for Trump
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow portions of President Trump’s travel ban to proceed is a much-needed victory for the administration. The high court ruled that those “who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States” could be denied entry into the U.S. The ban targets those from six majority-Muslim countries, halting entry until “extreme vetting” can be conducted.
The Progressive Boomerang
The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.
WWRD
As Senate Republicans struggle to reach a consensus on how best to tackle the quasi-socialist Obamacare regime, Fox & Friends Wednesday morning asked the question: What Would Reagan Do?
Carried Interest Tax to Carry Water for Reform?
Much of the difficulty Republicans are experiencing in passing tax reform is self-inflicted. They’ve fallen into a trap of the Left by trying to ensure that the much-needed reforms to our outdated and punitive tax code are “revenue-neutral” — meaning the government continues to take just as much out of the economy in taxes going forward.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The High Cost of Waiting to Drain the Swamp
More than five months into the new Congress and the new administration, precious little draining has occurred. The delay in action is not only frustrating, it’s expensive: With the promised reforms, the U.S. could have created as much as $5 billion per day in economic output. If nothing changes, the swamp will end up costing more than 2 million prospective jobs over the next decade.
Barbarism Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Brezhnev Doctrine said that the Soviet empire could only expand and never give back its gains. A domestic version of the doctrine has long applied to the welfare state — and never so brazenly as in the debate over the Republican health care bill.
Stall in a Day’s Work for Health Bill
When Senate Republicans met for lunch yesterday, the most important thing on the menu had nothing to do with food. With the clock counting down to the July 4th recess, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and special guest Mike Pence had their work cut out for them lobbying GOP holdouts on the newly released health care plan.
School Inc.
Every year, almost every industry improves. We get more choices — usually better choices, for less money. “But of all the products we make and the services we provide, there’s one that stands out as an exception,” according to the Cato Institute’s Andrew Coulson. “One activity in which excellence doesn’t spawn countless imitators or spread on a massive scale: schooling.”