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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Florida’s Election Is Finally Over
Nearly two weeks after Election Day, Florida’s election finally ended over the weekend.
What’s Hiding in Obamacare?
Remember “we have to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it?” Well, in some cases, “you have to buy it to find out what’s in it.” And all too often, what’s in it is abortion.
Even Astronauts Fear the Left
Those on the left regard themselves as Ubermenschen, superior to all those who lived before them and all those who differ with them today.
Charting the Danger of the Modern Left
No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America’s political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.
The Florida Fiasco Ends
After two recounts — one by machine, the other by hand — after a concession speech by Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for governor, which was withdrawn and then re-delivered; after hordes of lawyers descended on the state to argue that “every vote should be counted,” including mail-in ballots with faulty signatures that were rejected the first time around, it’s finally over.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Teacher Banned After Thanking Kids for Pledge of Allegiance
A substitute teacher says he was banned from a Missouri high school after a student claimed he felt bullied when the teacher thanked students for standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Prison Reform: Major Achievement for President Trump
The FIRST STEP Act is the beginning of a transformation of America’s federal criminal justice system into what it should have always been: a system that makes America safer.
Trump Is No Anti-Semite
As a Jew, I think one of the weirdest insults hurled at President Trump is that he hates Jews. I have no doubt that he harbors ill feelings towards the likes of Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Bernie Sanders, Krysten Sinema, Richard Blumenthal, Ben Cardin, Jerry Nadler, Brad Sherman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and Adam Schiff, but so do I.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
A Declared Presidential Candidate Who Believes in What He Has Lived
The world’s oldest political party has developed an aversion to discretion.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Stoking Division
Do you recall during the final 2016 presidential debate when Donald Trump was asked to preemptively surrender by accepting the results of the presidential election if he lost? Trump said it would depend on the circumstances. In other words, he wasn’t going to accept cheating.
Planned Parenthood Minds Its Ps and LGBTQs
Imagine how upset you’d be to find out that your tax dollars were funding radical sexual propaganda targeted at your kids. Well, thanks to Planned Parenthood, you already are.
Giving Thanks in Difficult Circumstances
“An 18-year-old girl walks into a Methodist hospital in Philadelphia and she says, ‘I’m pregnant.’ And she literally almost delivers me in the elevator.
The Deep State’s Nothing New
Reference to the Deep State, a shadow government that exists within the federal bureaucracy, is of recent origin.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Trump’s Not Populist Enough
The midterms suggest that President Donald Trump needs to double down on populism, just not the sort that’s been his signature to this point.
Escaping the Politics of Anger
I realize the Democrats took over the House, which is not new news. But I’m tired of hearing Nancy Pelosi and other liberals in Congress say that now we need to start working together. Now we need bipartisanship.
Recall of the Wild: U.C. Tries to Boot Student Senator
If the extremists at U.C. Berkeley want Isabella Chow’s senate seat, they’ll have to come and take it. The Christian at the center of a campus-wide controversy isn’t backing down — no matter how ruthless the opposition is. Believing in basic biology isn’t hate. And you’d think any college that wants to be taken seriously in America ought to know it.
Ilhan Omar’s Election Shows That Democrats Aren’t Interested in Confronting Anti-Semitism
Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, is a new kind of politician. She’s telegenic, ideologically progressive, widely celebrated by a media that’s obsessed with identity politics.
Democrats Are Trying to Steal an Election in Florida
Republican Gov. Rick Scott leads Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes in the Florida Senate race.