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- Opinion · Feb 16, 2019Clarity Begins at Home, GOP Hopes
headlines for long, especially if it means President Trump is going to check off another promise and build the wall without them. “We’re going to confront the national security … additional authority from Congress; he requires only money.” Even so, the president shrugged, the reality is, the Democrats will sue no matter what. “We will have a national emergency
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2019A Horror We Can’t Unknow
abortion. For many people, who’ve come face to face with this brutal reality for the first time, there is no putting the lid back on this terrible evil … care about. Time magazine, the Washington Post, and New York Times can fact-check until the cows come home, but there’s no arguing the basic facts. Is late-term
- Alexander's Column · Feb 14, 2019The Left’s Real ‘Climate Change’ Agenda
socialist-induced nightmares. Democrat Party neophytes romanticize such nightmares , refusing to accept the reality that socialist governments, like those of the USSR and most recently Venezuela , are destined to empower … here .) Notably, the Bezos WaPo refused to do any of its vaunted fact-checking: “We won’t be awarding any Pinocchios in this kerfuffle.” Enter Donald Trump . On the heels
- Opinion · Feb 7, 2019Americans Cheer the Lifelines in SOTU
reporters, NBC’s Brian Williams seemed taken aback by the vivid realities of a procedure that’s taken 54 million innocent lives. It was “graphic language on abortion,” he said … impossible without choosing life. For more on the State of the Union reaction, check out our Facebook Live from the National Mall. [...] Originally published here . For Pastor Brunson, a Week
- Opinion · Jan 28, 2019If Trump Backs Down on a Wall, MAGA Nation Won’t Bolt
reversed course, breezily declaring that “obviously” he never expected Mexico to write a check. If all these Trump departures from Great Wall orthodoxy haven’t hurt his standing with … intention to make the wall an issue in the 2020 campaign. The deepest reality of the Trump phenomenon is that his loyalists are passionate about him , not about his positions
- Opinion · Jan 23, 2019The Media’s BuzzFeed and Covington Disasters
BuzzFeed fiasco and the smear-athon of Covington High School kids. The reality is this: In the Trump era, no one in the “old media” feels the need to wait … liberal media indulged him. It was too good to check. Isn’t this the “fake news” that professional journalists and social media barons alike are supposed to curtail
- Article · Jan 18, 2019O’Rourke’s Coming Constitutional Crisis
state of our government and whether it’s even trying to keep the checks and balances that were designed into it. For example, Congress has repeatedly ceded authority … Congress. While it’s claimed that the impeachable offense is obstruction of justice, the reality is that Trump was obstructing the transfer of power to the unelected bureaucrats amassing their
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2019In Case of Emergency, Build Wall?
lawsuits — even if it’s well within Trump’s legal power to act. “The reality,” Ken says, “is that you’ll always find someone who files a lawsuit … have to get in order to protect America. For more on the immigration crisis, check out my column in yesterday’s Washington Times, “ Protecting America’s National Home .” Also
- Alexander's Column · Jan 2, 2019Reflections on 2018, Predictions for 2019
already been seen, ad nauseam, ad infinitum! On the other hand, for a reality check, both on the year past and the year to come, there are two New Year
- Article · Jan 2, 2019Corporate-Driven Gun Control
Commercial Firearms Policy” prohibits firearms sales to customers who haven’t passed a background check and are younger than 21, and bars the sale of high-capacity magazines. The policy … Amendment Americans already know the answer: Whatever gun-grabbers decide, and nothing makes this reality clearer than The New York Times. The paper cites eight mass shooters — over the course
- Opinion · Dec 21, 2018Getting Serious About Syria
Russia and Iran. But I’d like to do quick reality check. America’s commitment of 2,000 troops pales in comparison to the estimated 80,000 extremists in Syria
- Alexander's Column · Nov 28, 2018An ‘Independent Judiciary’ Reality Check
Chief Justice John Roberts’s assertion that we have an “independent judiciary
- Opinion · Nov 24, 2018Chief Justice Roberts Is Wrong. We Do Have Obama Judges and Trump Judges.
president nominated him or her, strictly interpreted our laws and the Constitution. But the reality is that not all do. While conservative presidents tend to nominate judges who exercise … appoints them. The judiciary plays a key role in our system of checks and balances. “Trump judges” should rule against Trump when he is wrong. That
- Article · Nov 19, 2018Paralyzed Children Should Transcend Politics
clinical evidence regarding a link between AFM and EV-D68, noting they’ve checked spinal fluid of about three-quarters of the 90 patients afflicted with AFM and found … millions of people have completely evaded examination is anyone’s guess. In 2018, another reality intrudes. “AFM is not currently an official ‘reportable disease,’ meaning that health professionals
- Video · Nov 15, 2018Video: The Truth About the Caravan
about this caravan, so I decided to go down, check it out for myself, and figure out what is the reality versus the fiction
- Opinion · Nov 13, 2018If Sex Isn’t Fixed, Why Is Age?
birth date to 11th March 1969. “Mr Ratelband said: ‘I have done a check-up and what does it show? My biological age is 45 years. When … that chaos more evident than in the left’s attempt to end the reality that the human being is created either male or female. That is “binary” nonsense, according
- Article · Nov 6, 2018Tuesday Short Cuts
woman collapses in the crowd. pic.twitter.com/Iea2ulwIjY — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 6, 2018 Reality check: “For Democrats, one trend that has taken hold is quite alarming: our swing
- Opinion · Oct 29, 2018Increased Water Vapor, Not CO2, Most Likely Reason for Recent Warm Septembers
global temperature. This, of course, is parried into a planetary emergency, when in reality the overall effect is relatively benign and in line with what supports life and prosperity quite … north pole, but look at the last five Aprils in Canada. Image Now check out the change in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures since 2012. 2012: Image Now: Image
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2018Consequential Elections
some young woman, armed with a flashlight, ventures down the old creaky stairs to check things out for herself. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy is either the funniest guy on Capitol … over a hundred years and it’s been, again like Socialism, an unmitigated disaster. Reality has a way of blowing theories out of the water. Unfortunately, those on the Left
- Opinion · Oct 24, 2018How Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Federalism
Republicans. So, here’s a solution: the founders’ solution. It’s called checks and balances, federalism and localism. For too long, the Democratic Party has operated under a certain assumption … fought tooth and nail by the left — seemingly by accident. She tweeted, “A reality of a Supreme Court with a right-wing majority is that the states