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Friday, February 17, 2017
The Left’s All-Out War on Trump
Please don’t tell us conservatives that we need to find common ground with the left during this era of Trump. That would only advance liberals’ cause, because they have no intention of working with President Trump. They are conducting an all-out war against him and his administration, and appeasement efforts wouldn’t change that.
The Case of the Cover-Up in Search of a Crime
It’s a Watergate-era cliche that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instance of a cover-up *in the absence of* a crime.
We Need a Special Prosecutor
The press has long reported that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s one time campaign manager, had ties to Russia. Rick Gates, who worked for Manafort at the Republican convention in Cleveland, was named as an “agent of a Ukrainian oligarch” in a 2011 lawsuit. Likewise, Carter Page, a Trump advisor had ties to Russia.
Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil
Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary travel ban and his national security adviser resigning after 24 days, the solid partisan divisions in the electorate — modestly changed in 2016 from what they’d been over the previous two decades — remain in place.
Biology Isn’t Bigotry: Why Sex Matters in the Age of Gender Identity
For the past several years, all across America, parents, teachers and local school districts have been having conversations about how best to accommodate the dignity, privacy and safety concerns of students who identify as transgender while also addressing the dignity, privacy and safety concerns of other students.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Drain the Real Swamp: Academia
Here is a short list that could be considered by state legislatures as well as by an institution that itself should be abolished — the Federal Department of Education.
Assembly Lines, Government Schools and the Loss of Our Republic
“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart” is a verse from Proverbs that is often repeated in Christian circles. The fact is, most of my life I have subscribed to the hope this verse offers in raising one’s children. Of course, I have considered the truth of this verse from the vantage point of the values that I believe to be true and worthy of living. But it dawned on me recently, as I was meditating on this passage, that this truth applies equally to those who do not share a conservative ideology or values.
Are Career Services Offices a Failure?
Only 16 percent of recent college graduates state that their career services office was very helpful. What a devastating statistic!
Trump’s Push for Deregulation
On day one President Trump surprised business leaders gathered at the White House, declaring U.S. regulations “out of control” and “in need of 75% or more reduction.” A week later, he boldly signed an executive order requiring repeal of two old rules for every new one that government agencies implement. The fact is that cutting regulations is as critical as tax relief in turning the U.S. economy around.
Musicians in Concert With Libs on Privacy
Lady Gaga, Sting and Britney Spears are putting on a quite a performance — but it has nothing to do with their music. The trio, along with more than 100 other actors and musicians, are playing a convincing role in the Left’s misinformation campaign over the Texas Privacy Act.
Media Bias
With Michael Flynn’s resignation, there is blood in the water, and the leftist sharks are circling in a frenzy, eagerly looking for their next victim.
John F. Kennedy: What Would He Think of His Party?
On guns, taxes, racial preferences, foreign policy and abortion, John F. Kennedy would not be comfortable in today’s Democratic Party. He was, after all, a Kennedy Democrat.
Crossing the Line on Health Insurance
In a recent television interview, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, head of one of America’s largest health insurers, commented that selling insurance across state lines is “an outdated concept” in these days of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
History’s Lessons Unlearned
The so-called alt-right has apparently lost another battle. It is the racially preoccupied movement that champions the cause of white nationalism and populism. This time it was Yale University that beat it back.
Calls for a Carbon Tax Are Misguided
There’s a full-court press underway to convince President Donald Trump that it would be a good idea to impose a carbon tax on the American people. He’s hearing about it not only from well-connected businessmen such as Elon Musk but also from establishment Republicans. Let’s hope he has the fortitude to resist their exhortations.
A New Direction on Education
American public school students fall well behind students around the world in math and science proficiency. This is not debatable.
The Three-Headed Hydra of the Middle East
The abrupt Obama administration pre-election pullout from Iraq in 2011, along with the administration’s failed reset with Russia and the Iran deal, created a three-headed hydra in the Middle East.
Congress, Not the President, Should Raise Tariffs
In theory, if only occasionally in fact, Congress plays a role when a president wants to initiate military hostilities. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah thinks Congress should also have a say when a president wants to initiate a trade war.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
What ObamaCare’s Drafters Could Have Learned From a Hairdresser
Last week’s CNN debate between Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders on the future of Obamacare was a first-rate political broadcast. It was substantive, focused and illuminating — an absorbing clash between senators representing two very different ideological approaches. It was everything last year’s shallow, bicker-filled presidential campaign “debates” were not: political programming that genuinely left viewers with more insight into a pressing question of public policy.
Teacher: I Lost $100 Bet Because Trump Wasn’t Shot
I received a rather disturbing report of yet another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, this time from a high school in Camarillo, California.