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- Opinion · Jun 3, 2016Banned of Brothers
make a profit from the baby body parts inside the young woman’s womb.” Essentially, Planned Parenthood was passing along sensitive information to tissue companies like StemExpress about women before … UnAmerican Way If you’re wondering how effective FRC is in the religious liberty debate, don’t take our word for it! Take the radical Left
- Opinion · May 7, 2016Bathroom Vanity! Feds Think They Can Trample N.C. Law
baseless and absurd reading of Title VII.” What the president’s agencies are essentially saying is: “We don’t want to try to get new laws. That’s hard work … Justice.” Maybe the president is starting to realize that its obsession with potty politics is hurting his credibility on the real issues facing America. That’s certainly a frustration echoing
- Article · May 6, 2016Should the Senate Give in and Confirm Garland?
Political calculations for a Trump nomination. 01EX5BZQE8E3VHVX8XWTZZYJ08.jpg Now that Donald Trump has essentially secured the Republican nomination for president, conservatives have a lot of soul searching … questions to answer. Not the least of which is, what should the Senate do about Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland? Senate Republicans and Barack Obama have already traded shots across
- Opinion · Apr 29, 2016The World According to Trump
such fundamental questions as whether $12 or $15 is the proper minimum wage. On the Republican side, however, foreign policy has been the subject of furious debate. To which Donald … National Interest (once known as the Nixon Center). As such, it fulfilled a political need. As did its major theme, announced right at the top: America First. Classically populist
- Article · Apr 16, 2016The Left’s Climate Inquisition’s New Target
Heritage Foundation) that researches and publishes studies and reports on issues it believes are “essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish.” It is dedicated to the principles of “limited … actively debated and questioned. The fact that ExxonMobil produces a relatively cheap, reliable energy source that helps power our world but is disfavored by Progressives and their political representatives like
- Opinion · Apr 9, 2016The Left’s Climate Inquisition’s New Target
Heritage Foundation) that researches and publishes studies and reports on issues it believes are “essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish.” It is dedicated to the principles of “limited … actively debated and questioned. The fact that ExxonMobil produces a relatively cheap, reliable energy source that helps power our world but is disfavored by Progressives and their political representatives like
- Opinion · Apr 4, 2016Talking Trump
have to question your parenting skills in [having] your kid there in the first place,” he emailed me, calling my article “gutless.” “This is POLITICS not beanbag … occurred to me that it was inappropriate to let my kid watch a presidential debate. But such are the new standards in a Donald Trump America. Family-values conservatives
- Opinion · Apr 1, 2016N.C. Fights the Status Cuomo
should be able to shower with our daughters that he’s banning “non-essential” city employee travel to North Carolina in protest! That’s interesting, McCrory fired back on this … privacy that we have had for decades. And it’s amazing that the national politically correct police have descended on my state and unfairly smeared my state
- Article · Mar 31, 2016North Carolina’s Bathroom Wars
manhood can’t change his birth certificate. That America is even having this debate is absurd, but even more fatuous is the angst it’s giving so-called LGBT pacifiers … Carolina that creates the grounds for discrimination against LGBT people, I am barring non-essential state travel to that state.” There are myriad issues at play here. Heritage Foundation
- Article · Mar 17, 2016How Can Hillary Take on Trump?
policies , and who just plain don’t trust her. More important, though, is this essential question: How can Clinton successfully attack Trump? What’s she going to hit him with … marital history? His ethics? His honesty? His wealth? His Wall Street connections? His politically incorrect ways? On every one of those issues, one of two things applies: Her record
- Article · Mar 16, 2016The Ides of Rubio’s March
general. That last sentiment may be a little overblown. American politics is replete with second chances. But the question that must be asked is, what happened to Marco Rubio … Eight immigration reform bill. The report essentially argues that Rubio knew there were significant flaws in the legislation and sought a political victory anyway. That victory never came, leaving Rubio
- Opinion · Mar 11, 2016The Holocaust and the Jewish Identity
notice. Least of all, Sanders himself. Which prompted Anderson Cooper in a recent Democratic debate to ask Sanders whether he was intentionally keeping his Judaism under wraps. “No,” answered Sanders … Being Jewish, he declared, “is an essential part of who I am as a human being.” A fascinating answer, irrelevant to presidential politics but quite revealing about the state
- Article · Feb 19, 2016Counterterrorism Logjam: FBI vs. Apple
security to unlock a terrorist’s phone? 01EX5BZPDQAJY236K7CC0QCGS0.jpg “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Benjamin Franklin The attempt … primary challenge facing our efforts to fight terrorism in modern America. That debate is now playing out between the FBI and Apple over the iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino
- Opinion · Feb 9, 2016Hillary Clinton Discussed Prosecuting Republicans for Classification Violations
Libya to the defense budget. But why is this debate different from all other debates? In the dedicated foreign policy debate, the stakes are higher — America’s role … only false, as exposed in the last debate. (Obama here can joke that Romney apparently wants to rerun the last debate but this time without Candy Crowley present to call
- Opinion · Jan 16, 2016Bout Time: Trump, Cruz Rumble in S.C.
hype of his college debate pedigree, had a worthy opponent in Trump — who, like him, deftly handles even the toughest of questions. The two sparred over several issues — with each … Essentially, we agreed: the American people are looking for strong leadership, someone who will speak truth to power. Both Cruz and Trump refused to be silenced by the political
- Opinion · Dec 23, 2015White House Inadvertently Admits That a Child Is a Child ‘Even Before Birth’
conspires against even the most careful liars. The White House intended the document in question — dryly titled “Long-Term Benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” — to build the case … term. “That determination, then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause
- Article · Dec 21, 2015Nonjudgmental Absurdity
holidays. It is coupled with the timidity of public officials cowed by political correctness. Political correctness that demands equal respect for the sacred and the profane. Thus … offensive’ and must be banned.” That is certainly correct, but it provokes an essential question: When did Americans become so petty and self-righteous that every display of genuine religious
- Opinion · Dec 18, 2015Does Conservatism Matter in Republican Nomination Contest?
essentially barroom blurts. While Trump floats above all normal categories of Republican politics, the other candidates are proceeding on the assumption that conservative credentials still matter. The question that came … into relief at the Las Vegas debate is: What is conservatism in 2015? For Rubio, it’s (at least in part) a commitment to American world leadership. For Cruz
- Opinion · Dec 5, 2015Discriminatory Racial Preferences in College Admissions Return to the Supreme Court
program involving the competitive consideration of race and ethnic origin.” For years, legal scholars debated what a “properly devised” affirmative-action program entailed while these programs grew on campuses across … school, deferring to the school officials’ “educational judgment” that a diverse student body is “essential to its educational mission.” It found that the school’s “critical mass” goal
- Opinion · Dec 1, 2015Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Laws Threaten Freedom
SOGI laws would prevent schools, parents, and employers from protecting children from these adult debates about sex and gender identity by forcing employers, including schools, to yield to the desires … employer might have to silence employees with political opinions that are perceived as anti-gay, and prevent such employees from expressing political views such as opposition to gay marriage