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Friday, March 10, 2017
Wait Gains: Abstinence Gets Hill Boost
President Obama wasn’t just opposed to abstinence — he practiced it when it came to funding conservative sex ed. For eight years, he poured millions of dollars down the drain of “comprehensive” sex education, unraveling President Bush’s positive progress on teen pregnancy in the process.
Down the Conspiracy Rabbit Hole
When he was Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA’s disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: “If the CIA denies something, it’s denied.” Has there ever been a more dry, more wry, more ironic verdict on the world of espionage? Within it, there is admission and denial, smoke and mirrors, impenetrable fog and deliberate obfuscation. Truth? Ask the next guy.
Good News on Jobs
You might want to be careful sharing today’s report. Sending it to any of your particularly liberal friends might cause their heads to explode. While the media and lefties are screaming about not normalizing Donald Trump, good news is breaking out everywhere.
The Perils of Jacksonian Governance
Upon taking office, President Donald Trump dusted off a portrait of Andrew Jackson and hung it above his desk in the Oval Office. He chose better than he knew.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Get Real, Democrats, There Is No Good Reason for Sessions to Resign
Talk about “over the top”! The overblown rhetoric accompanying calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation reveals that Thursday’s brouhaha is driven by mere political grandstanding, not a real concern over unlawful behavior.
ObamaCare: Repeal, Replace, Revive?
Most Republicans would probably agree — putting a health care plan on paper was the easy part. Getting the party on board with it is another story. But repealing 974 pages of Obamacare shouldn’t be too difficult.
Wikileaks Stokes Controversy
Wikileaks dumped an extraordinary batch of information Tuesday that appeared to offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the CIA. Some national security experts say this latest leak suggests that we have another Edward Snowden — someone on the inside with access to America’s most sensitive information.
What Has Gotten Into the Democrats?
The average American is understandably perplexed as to why Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and, of course, the runner up in last year’s Democrat primaries, Sen. Bernie Saunders, are so lathered up over the Republicans’ recent overtures to the Russians. They are calling for the impeachment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. They want a special prosecutor to look into President Donald Trump’s relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. What has gotten into the Democrats? Why are they so bellicose toward Moscow?
ObamaCare Can’t Be ‘Fixed’
The moment Republicans bought into the notion that Obamacare must not just be repealed but “replaced,” Democrats won. Democrats argue that health care is a “right.” Republicans claim they disagree, that nowhere in the Constitution does the federal government guarantee health care treatment or health care insurance. But Republicans’ behavior suggests otherwise.
Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff
The recent Academy Awards ceremony turned into a monotony of hate. Many of the stars who mounted the stage ranted on cue about the evils of President Donald Trump. Such cheap rhetoric is easy. But first, accusers should guarantee that their own ceremony is well run. Instead, utter bedlam ruined the event, as no one on the Oscar stage even knew who had won the Best Picture award.
Trump Era’s Vicious Partisanship Born of Small Differences
“Polarize” is a funny word. I hear it all the time, including from my own mouth. The country is polarized. The parties are polarized. President Trump is polarizing. I think that’s true, but I don’t think the word means what people think it means.
Wiki-Flood
Most Americans, I suspect, have the attitude that if the government is spying on someone there is probably a good reason. In the latest document dump by WikiLeaks, Julian Assange’s outfit may cause some to rethink that premise.
ObamaCare Is Congress’s Opportunity to Lead
Since the 2016 election, much ink has been spilled trying to pinpoint the cause of the collapse of the Democratic Party, both in Congress and state legislatures, during Barack Obama’s presidency. Among the most important was the deep antipathy to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. The Democrats passed it on a very unusual party-line vote and the implementation of the act has failed to live up to Obama’s promises.
Eugenics Was a Progressive Cause
The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murray’s appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced “eugenics,” thereby demonstrating an interesting ignorance: Eugenics — controlled breeding to improve the heritable traits of human beings — was a progressive cause.
It’s the Health Care That Matters, Not the Insurance
The release of the House Republicans’ health care reform plan is the latest reminder that misguided objectives drive many policy decisions in Washington. Unfortunately, it often results in bad policy outcomes with real economic costs.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
School Teaches Zi & Zir Without Permission From Mom & Dad
Indiana parents are furious after 8th graders at Lincoln Junior High School were exposed to a classroom lesson on sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity issues without being notified in advance by the school district.
The Crisis of Liberty in the West
Any lecture on the crisis of liberty in the West faces at least one serious limitation: time. I know time is in short supply, as is liberty, for the crisis of liberty in the West is expansive, multifaceted, and more deeply rooted than many of our political slogans suggest.
Liberal Senators Just Want to Know Your Position on ‘Climate Change’
The Left’s obsession with climate change has been on full display in the confirmation hearings of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. They seem to believe the issue is more important than any other foreign, domestic, or security concern. Indeed, in their minds, it seems to trump even the need for the fair and objective administration of justice.
Sessions Affair Just Democratic Obstructionism
Good citizens across the nation surely are wondering why, when critical business regarding America’s future needs tending to, the game preoccupying Washington, DC, these days is “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.”