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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
State on Rise as Family Dies
In 1947, two years after the United States won World War II, 96.4 percent of the babies in this country were born to a married mother and father.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
On ObamaCare, a Partywide Failure
There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care.
On Health Care, Look to the Passed for Answers
Nobody said repealing Obamacare would be easy. And after Friday afternoon, there’s no shortage of opinions on what Republicans could have done better. But just because leaders struck out with this version of the American Health Care Act doesn’t mean the conversation is over.
Purists Kill Whatever They Believe In
According to The New York Times, 10 moderates, 15 conservatives and eight other Republicans would have voted against the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The False Compassion of Liberalism
Last week on CNN I debated a liberal commentator who complained that the problem with President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint is that it lacks “compassion” for the poor, for children and for the disabled. This woman went on to ask me how I could defend a budget that would cut Meals on Wheels, after-school programs and special-education funding, because without the federal dollars, these vital services would go away.
The Political Center Is (Almost) Dead
Last month, while interviewing former senator Jim Webb, “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd labeled Webb “a rare and dying breed. A centrist and a moderate.” Todd also suggested that “The center’s been hollowed out.”
Personality and Policy
In the aftermath of the debacle over the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Trump can learn a valuable lesson that will serve him well in the next battle over tax reform and other issues.
What Now?
In the wake of Friday’s health care debacle, both sides within the Republican Party regrouped and made rational arguments for their positions over the weekend.
Monday, March 27, 2017
Mayors of Sanctuary Cities Should Be Jailed
Moms and dads in Montgomery County, Maryland, are terrified and angry — and with good reason.
‘Disunited We Stumble’
President Trump’s executive order on immigration has more than its fair share of critics. Among them, apparently, is someone at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The leaked report indicating that the children of immigrants raised in America radicalize at a higher rate than their parents do was plainly meant to undercut the president’s order.
Confessions of a Befuddled Sports Fan
Fortunately, I missed blow-by-blow accounts of House Republicans’ self-destruction, though leftist gloating continues to linger in the air like a bad smell, regardless of efforts to squeegee politics out of one’s life for a long weekend.
The Lies That Liberals Tell
Those on the Left are always trying to pretend that the Founders, a bunch of tough guys who not only pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, to the cause of liberty, but took up muskets to fight for it, were a bunch of mushy-headed socialists who would have wept copious tears if they thought some lazy s.o.b. was going to sleep hungry.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Deliver Us From Scripture-Citers
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose,” says the wealthy Antonio to his young friend Bassanio in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.”
Saturday, March 25, 2017
An Oasis of Liberty in the Arizona Sun
As a boy, Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the former senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, would step out of his father’s house and shoot at tin cans 50 yards away. Now 78, he says he could fire in any direction and not endanger “anything but a cactus.”
Trump Tried
After seven long, hard, grueling years, this was supposed to be a moment of victory for the GOP. This was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Obamacare.
Bus-ted! Left’s Vandals Attack Pro-Family Tour
There’s something else you can add to the list of services Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide — honesty. Truth-telling hasn’t exactly been a hallmark of Cecile Richards’s group, but lately, it’s selling more fiction than Amazon. With Congress dangerously close to pulling the plug on $550 million in taxpayer funding, America’s biggest abortion business is serving up plenty of whoppers in a desperate attempt to keep the dollars flowing.
The Strategic Defense Initiative at 34
When a politician promises something that “holds the promise of changing the course of human history,” we naturally assume it’s typical overstatement. But when President Ronald Reagan said that on March 23, 1983, in reference to his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), he was exactly right.
Ron Paul Is Dating Cassandra
Cassandra was a mythological prophetess who became world-renowned for being the bearer of bad news. But because even the daughter of Priam and Hecuba can’t be expected to carry the entire load, the former 12-term congressman and perennial presidential candidate, Ron Paul, has stepped forward to lend a hand.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Is the Current Climate Cycle Thwarting Major U.S. Hurricane Hits?
There are those of us out there who are so heretical that not only do we question the cause of the current warm state of the globe, but our attitude is: So what. Perhaps a warmer climate is a better climate for life and prosperity. After all, the evidence is clear that warmer times were “climate optimums.”
Neil Gorsuch on Life, Liberty and the Natural Law
In a stunning moment in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a staunch supporter of so-called “abortion rights,” took umbrage with one of Gorsuch’s previous written statements. As Feinstein described it, “He [Gorsuch] believes there are no exceptions to the principle that ‘the intentional taking of a human life by private persons is always wrong.’”