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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Freedom of the Press: A Privilege to Be Honored by Practitioners
Freedom of the press is a hallmark of the American experiment. Looking back to the days when the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created, we can see what the Founders had in mind.
Living the MLK Dream
It would have been a bitterly cold day to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial, but plenty did. Bundled up on a deceptively sunny day, they took advantage of the park’s re-opening, a rare gift in the midst of the longest government shutdown. One by one, they stopped to look up at the civil rights leader, who stands now as he did then: unflinching in the winds.
American Psychological Association Has Made Choosing a Therapist Easy
The American Psychological Association has, in its words, issued “its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys.” These guidelines “draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage.”
Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown
On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff.
Trump’s State of the Union Options
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given President Trump an opportunity to change the dynamic of the State of the Union address, an event that has become predictable and often boring.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Media Lynch Mob
More than 100,000 people came to Washington last week for the March for Life. Most were young, pro-life high school and college students. Among them was a group of boys from a Catholic high school in Covington, Kentucky, near where I grew up.
Media Smears Catholic Boys for Wearing MAGA Hats
The young men of Covington Catholic High School have been subjected to nothing short of a political witch hunt because of their faith, the color of their skin, and their devotion to making America great again. And they are owed an apology.
Separation of Church and State
“Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state” —Lynch v. Donnelly, 1984
Our Nation Is Not Yet Cleansed of Racism. Here’s What We Should Do.
Laws and resolutions can’t change hearts. Changing hearts requires a personal commitment.
Trump Must Go to the Mat Over Liberal Judge’s Ruling on Census Question
A Manhattan district court judge earlier this week blocked the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, and in doing so has sought to weaken executive power while strengthening the administrative state.
As MLK Foresaw, Racism in America Has Been Largely Overcome
“I have no despair about the future,” wrote the Rev. Martin Luther King in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in April 1963. “I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham.... We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
The Politics of Abortion
A great many black Americans have accused the government of committing genocide against them. They have blamed the cops of gunning for them and the feds for conspiring to distribute cocaine in their communities.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
March for Life
I love this day! Every year hundreds of thousands of people come to Washington, D.C. -- in January! -- to march for the sanctity of life. This is the 46th annual March for Life, and that tells you something about the dedication of the pro-life movement.
Will Elites Ever Respect Voters’ Decisions on Brexit and Trump?
It was no coincidence that Donald Trump scheduled a trip to Britain to promote one of his golf courses in Scotland, on June 23, 2016. That was the day of the Brexit referendum in which 52 percent of the electorate --17.4 million voters, more than any party has ever won in a general election -- voted for the UK to leave the European Union.
Life on the March
There will always be some quiet symmetry to the March for Life falling so closely to the day we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. In so many ways, their cause is the same -- the struggle against a deep and painful injustice.
Happy March for Life!
“Happy March for Life!” More than a few people said that to me as I arrived here for the annual pro-life rally in our nation’s capital.
The Conscience of a Nation: Defeating Democrat Extremism
This week marked the 30th year of the March for Life.
Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Seventy miles northwest of New York City is a hospital that looks like a prison, its drab brick buildings wrapped in layers of fencing and barbed wire. This grim facility is called the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute. It’s one of three places the state of New York sends the criminally mentally ill — defendants judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
It’s a Goofy World
For many years, I resented my parents. They definitely were not the parents I would have ordered out of the catalogue.
End This Stupid Shutdown
Trump is unserious, but so are Schumer and Pelosi. Two decades of cynical game-playing are enough.