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Monday, October 15, 2018

It’s Autumn and the Nazis are in Bloom
Oddly enough, it’s generally those on the Left who like to quote George Santayana, even if they don’t know they’re quoting him or who he was, for that matter.

Look What You Made Taylor Swift Do
Endorsements in Tennessee election campaigns don’t usually draw international headlines. But when Taylor Swift on Oct. 7 told her 112 million Instagram followers that she intends to vote next month for two Democrats — US Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and Representative Jim Cooper — news outlets the world over rushed to report the news.
Sunday, October 14, 2018

How to Heal our Epidemic of Loneliness?
If Sen. Ben Sasse is right — he has not recently been wrong about anything important — the nation’s most-discussed political problem is entangled with the least-understood public health problem.
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Love, Life, and Protest
There’s a scene in the new movie “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer,” that should launch candid conversations around the country.

Why Isn’t George Soros in Jail?
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the billionaire currency manipulator is still walking free.

Pastor Brunson Is Free!
U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson, after two long and harrowing years in Turkish prison, was boarding a plane home.

Brunson Freed
A Turkish court Friday convicted him on terrorism charges related to the July 2016 attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Friday, October 12, 2018

Challenging Global Warming Attribution to Hurricanes
Tropical cyclones are Nature’s way of taking the heat out of the tropics and redistributing it into the temperate regions.

CBS Prime-Time Shows Honor Hillary
Hillary Clinton isn’t president, but Hollywood is offering the biggest consolation prize it has: working her into TV plots where she can be toasted as wise and wonderful. Within the first two weeks of the fall season, CBS has done this twice.

Both Sides Are Doing It Wrong
A certain segment of the evangelical pastoral community has decided Christians should embrace social justice. More prominent evangelicals are pushing back, saying “No.” I think both sides get it wrong.

Yes, Democrats, It’s a Mob
Former Attorney General Eric Holder believes that Michelle Obama was wrong when she famously advised, “When they go low, we go high.” Rather, he told Democrats at a gathering in Georgia, “when they go low, we kick them.”

Don’t Look for Civility Unless Democrats Win in November
“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton told CNN last Tuesday. Her words cannot be taken literally, for you can be civil if you want to; they’re a statement that she doesn’t want to.

Haley Stepping Down at Just the Right Time
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley surprised virtually everybody this week when she announced she’d be resigning from her post at the end of the year.

Trump Could Be the Most Honest President in Modern History
Donald Trump may be remembered as the most honest president in modern American history.

Congress Must Stop the Internet Sales Tax Mugging of Small Businesses and Jobs
Americans from coast to coast enjoy purchasing goods on the internet. It’s comfortable, convenient, and the product is delivered right to your doorstep.

Who Are the Real Partisans?
Someone please tell me what bizarro world Democratic activists inhabit — those who are grumbling that Republicans are unscrupulous partisan warriors imposing their agenda by government coercion and trampling the innocent, passive left in the process.

Civility Is for Suckers
It’s doubtful that a former American presidential candidate has ever formally endorsed incivility before, but Hillary Clinton is ever full of surprises.

