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- Opinion · Oct 23, 2018Old News: Gender Isn’t Neutral
truth these days, but it’s time they came to grips with one important reality. The president is not a legislator, no matter how much Obama acted like … right branch of government. For more on the “sex” vs. “gender identity” debate, check out our paper on Title IX . For a more general overview of the transgender issue
- Article · Oct 19, 2018#MeToo Faces Reality Check
“American opinion has shifted against victims,” The Economist says. They keep using
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2018How Not to Modernize Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is not an acceptable outcome. How does Trump reconcile these three irreconcilable realities? The answer is: He can’t. The result is going to be unpleasant and unsatisfying … president as he tries to figure out a path forward need to check their hypocrisy. As my American Enterprise Institute colleague Danielle Pletka pointed out, “if you can’t restrain
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2018The Fauxcahontas Award of the Week
said, “What hump?” I concluded the poor chap had a terrible problem recognizing reality and therefore must be a Democrat. Since I didn’t want to make this political … tumbleweeds-eyebrows hovering over an expression that hinted good news for my quest to check some minority status box on government documents. He didn’t disappoint: He announced proudly that
- Opinion · Oct 16, 2018A Pastor’s Prayer
because it exposes the ugly reality of abortion on demand. Facebook and NPR also banned advertising for “Gosnell.” I strongly encourage you to check it out. The Violent Left
- Opinion · Oct 12, 2018Midterms Update
attempts to intimidate with references to violence; politicians respond to those who write campaign checks; and words mean things. The first two are related. For years the Left has used … Granted it could become even more violent and vitriolic, but it could also accept reality and back off a bit. In the hope (even utterly misplaced hope) springs eternal category
- Opinion · Oct 11, 2018Trump’s Trolling vs. the ‘Constitution of Knowledge’
before you wax indignant, if you still bother to, about such breezy indifference to reality, you must remember this: Donald Trump is guilty of much, but not of originality. Before … urgently needed thinking. It is this: “We don’t mail Elvis a Social Security check, no matter how many people think he is alive.” No. Matter. How. Many. This apercu
- Opinion · Oct 6, 2018A Short History of American Medical Insurance
likely to go up. There is no price competition to keep prices in check. Predictably, the medical profession began to lobby in favor of retaining this system … need to get the practitioners of modern medicine to recognize an age-old reality: there is no cure for old age itself. Maybe someday we’ll be able
- Opinion · Oct 2, 2018Fraud and Circuses: The Political Trashing of Brett Kavanaugh
District of Columbia, all of which required him passing an FBI background check — six, to be exact. None of them turned up even the faint odor of bad behavior, which … know this — the whole world knows this — but they will not be dissuaded by reality. Politics is more important to them. In America, people are not punished for unsubstantiated accusations
- Article · Oct 1, 2018Officers Down!
noted last year in “ The Second Amendment and Violence — A Bullet Point Reality Check ,” in regard to interracial murders, the overwhelming number are black on white. If there
- Opinion · Sep 29, 2018A Way Out of the Mess
Bennett: “Saints are not born through other people’s sins.” The other day I checked my high school yearbook to see what might keep me from confirmation to the Supreme … worse. We need to take a few steps back and acknowledge our common reality as created beings in need of one another. We need to honor the family, honor innocence
- Article · Sep 27, 201822 Million: Double the Number of Illegals
discovery” than the professors themselves. “Our original idea was just to do a sanity check on the existing number,” said Kaplan, an operations research professor. “Instead of a number which … less money , or can’t find a job altogether, to become infuriated by the reality that their life-altering problems can be trivialized with weasel words like “displacement” and “pressure
- Opinion · Sep 21, 2018There’s No Reason to Delay the Kavanaugh Vote Any Further
hearings has been rushed — a charge that doesn’t mesh with the facts. In reality, Democrats know that the FBI has nothing to investigate. This fact alone doesn’t mean … argue that FBI has the purview to include these allegations in a broader background check, and that no one is asking for a “criminal probe.” Well, the Ford letter specifically
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2018Exploiting Mother Nature
long process and he’s been in office less than two years. I checked and only three Category 4 hurricanes have hit the Carolina coasts since the 1950s, well before … That does not mean there was a lack of preparation. That is simply the reality of Mother Nature in spite of man’s best efforts. But that won’t stop
- Opinion · Sep 12, 2018It’s Our Constitution — Not Kavanaugh
course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.” Today’s reality is the polar opposite of that vision. The powers of the federal government are numerous … vote. But I found a constitutional loophole that many congressmen use as a blank check, as well as justification to control most aspects of our lives — namely, the general welfare
- Article · Sep 10, 2018Obama Reminds Americans Why Trump Won
often the case, Obama’s version of events never quite matched up to the reality on the ground. Take the economy. For eight long years Americans suffered under a near … democracy. Obama asserted, “Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, without any checks or balances whatsoever ... provided another trillion in tax cuts to people like
- Opinion · Sep 7, 2018Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Showcase the Paranoia of the Resistance
refused to demonstrate even a perfunctory kindness toward a gun victim’s parent. In reality, a video shows that Kavanaugh was approached by a stranger in a room filled with … behind Kavanaugh at the hearing.” Well, the liberal-leaning blue-checked stars Seth Abramson, Amy Siskind, Eugene Gu, Eva Golinger and the Palmer Report each have hundreds of thousands
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2018TVA: Deception, Theft, and the Golden Rule
because they truly did not know the answer, or if it was the reality that the rule they claimed to embrace was being violated by the agency for which they … often heard it said by critics of biblical conservatives that they should check their values at the doors when they leave their church or personal residence. But this debacle
- Opinion · Sep 3, 2018Mob Rule in America
fanatically committed to a fictitious world and ferociously condemn others for questioning their “reality.” Here are a few tenets of elite phantasmagoria. America Is Hideous. Belief that America … world as Jews were to Nazi Germany. Whites must therefore admit their guilt, “check their privilege,” and take courses on “Ending Whiteness” (Yes, there are such courses). Trump Stole
- Opinion · Aug 27, 2018The Real Beto
high-capacity magazines. This logic fails to recognize reality: Criminals get guns illegally — they don’t do background checks. Further, American gun owners have stopped many crimes, such … Democrat Party as a whole. It’s time to separate the rhetoric from the reality. It’s time to confront the real Beto, not the airbrushed version portrayed in magazines