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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
The Left’s Long War on Conservative Free Speech
In the competition of ideas, you can’t win the game if you’re not on the playing field.
Republicans Can, Must Keep Control in Midterms
Recent polls and surveys are delivering, at best, mixed news for Republicans regarding the upcoming midterm elections.
30 Days to Live
“Your life is like the morning fog — it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” —James 4:14
In Washington, a Rare Relationship Without Pretense and BS
There are people in Washington who hate each other but who, for public consumption, pretend not to hate each other. What was almost refreshing about the relationship of Sen. John McCain and President Trump was that there was no such pretending.
Senate Defunds Beer-Serving Robots, Not Aborted-Baby Part Research
The U.S. Senate last week voted to prohibit federal funding of beer-serving robots for the U.S. military, while permitting federal funding of Planned Parenthood and research that uses organs taken from aborted babies.
Immigrants and Disease
The Immigration and Nationality Act mandates that all immigrants and refugees undergo a medical screening examination to determine whether they have an inadmissible health condition.
Suddenly I Understand How the Reformation Happened
Reading the stunning letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano — in which the former papal nuncio says he had personally informed Pope Francis five years ago about the serious accusations against then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick — is both heartbreaking and enraging.
Corrupt Democrats Are Not ‘News’
When seeking to demonstrate the degree to which the “objective” news media act like Democratic partisans, the best place to start is scandals, as in “Have you heard all about the latest Republican scandal?” versus “What Democrat scandal?”
How McCain’s Patriotism Can Still Best Trump’s Nationalism
The death of Sen. John McCain has elicited an enormous amount of commentary about the differences between the former Navy pilot and POW and the current president of the United States, who received five draft deferments, one of them for “bone spurs,” and who once remarked that avoiding getting a sexually transmitted disease was his “personal Vietnam.”
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Another American Is Murdered: Immigration Reform Is Essential
Which of the following situations is worse? 1. A woman and her child cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, and as a result the mother is separated from her child. 2. A man enters the country illegally and remains in the U.S. for several years, and then kills an American citizen.
Chaplain Cleared of Wrongdoing in Same-Sex Discrimination Case
The Army has exonerated a decorated Fort Bragg Army chaplain and his assistant after they were accused of discrimination against a same-sex couple.
The Spirit of 1968
The Battle of Michigan Avenue is finally over, and it was won by the protesters.
Explaining the Left, Part III: Leftism as Secular Religion
One of the most important books of the 20th century — it remains a best-seller 59 years after it was first published — is “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl.
Double Standards
Finding someone in Washington who is nonpartisan and puts the nation’s interests ahead of their own is so rare these days that he or she, if found, might well qualify as an endangered species.
Don’t Let the Fed End the Trump Prosperity
There’s an old cliche that the Federal Reserve likes to take away the punch bowl just when the party is getting going. That’s what President Trump suspects that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is doing now by raising interest rates at a time of a booming economy.
Monday, August 27, 2018
The Real Beto
Attractive, educated, relatable, progressive. These are the words some use to describe Beto O’Rourke, a current House member and a Democrat nominee for the Senate seeking to unseat conservative Ted Cruz. His campaign has struck national appeal with articles in *Town & Country*, *Time*, and *Rolling Stone*, as they herald him as the future of the Democrat Party. In Texas, his signs dot urban landscapes. His bumper stickers speckle the streets. His unsolicited texts fill phones. But who is this guy?
Goodbye, John
I was saddened by the news of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s death this weekend. Over the years, our paths crossed many times. We were in the same battles, sometimes on the same side, but to my great consternation, more often on opposite sides.
Facebook Bans Pastor’s ‘Love God, Defend America’ Ad
The Facebook overlords are at it again, folks. The latest victim is Steve Solomon — a radio host, pastor, and Army veteran from Knoxville, Tennessee. Pastor Solomon wanted to purchase Facebook ads to promote his radio program.
The Two Faces of Racial Discrimination
Most of us were raised to believe that racial bigotry as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws was abominable. How dare some people subjugate others simply because of their skin color, while ignoring their character and common humanity?
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Hope for the Church in the Wake of Horror
“I intended to be anything but Catholic,” Dawn Eden Goldstein remembers. She grew up in a Reform Jewish household but “fell into agnosticism” in her late teens, later becoming a rock-music historian in New York City. In 1999, she says she “encountered the love of Jesus Christ” and became a nondenominational Christian.