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- Opinion · Aug 7, 2018Manafort Trial Gets Underway; the Special Counsel Circus Continues
from Mz. Hillary’s stunning, and prediction-defying defeat. Here is a dose of reality for these champions of the highly flawed special counsel situation: “There really is no Mueller … gave him a blank slate for what he was supposed to investigate, a blank check to pay for it, and no termination date. Rosenstein literally handed Manafort to Mueller
- Article · Jul 26, 2018Universal Basic Income: The Nanny State on Steroids
precipitate a future where working becomes no more or less “noble” than collecting a check. If there is a better disincentive for ambition, self-reliance, and risk-taking, one would … with having “a cushion to try new ideas.” The irony they would embrace the reality of a Nanny State-on-steroids serfdom for the illusion of freedom is apparently lost
- Opinion · Jul 17, 2018FBI Agent Peter Strzok: I Checked My Beliefs at the Door
Peter Strzok, the former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division of
- Opinion · Jul 7, 2018We Must Improve Our Trust
exercise: You look at the grand surface knowing it may not reflect the inner reality. It implies action: If it doesn’t, try to make it better. Cynicism … power. The power of government, arrayed against the individual, could crush him. They devised checks, balances, enumerated rights. Those who believe in their wisdom should speak of it more persuasively
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2018The System Doesn’t Need to Be ‘Fixed’ Every Time Dems Lose
once argued that weakening the Senate filibuster would “destroy the very checks and balances our Founding Fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government … learned their lesson during the Obama years. The real anxiety driving liberals is the reality of President Trump’s getting another Supreme Court justice, the kind of nominee any conservative
- Article · Jul 5, 2018Facebook Blocks Declaration of Independence as ‘Hate Speech’
leftist bias in order to limit conservative content. Some recent incidents expose this reality. In a buildup to our nation’s annual celebration of Independence Day , a community newspaper … commitment to fighting “fake news.” Not only has Facebook tabbed leftist groups to “fact-check” content, it has sought to isolate itself from any direct responsibility by taking a hands
- Article · Jun 21, 2018A Despicable Hate-Fest Ginned Up for the Midterms
revealed they placed children with human traffickers after neglecting to run the most basic checks on these so-called ‘caregivers,’” New York Magazine reported in 2016. So why the manufactured … Hilton explains . Thus sudden outbreak of orchestrated heart-wringing is designed to obscure the reality that elitists in both parties countenanced or abetted the complete destruction of a merit-based
- Article · Jun 20, 2018Fact or Opinion — Americans Can’t Tell the Difference
Teddy bears and snacks ) to escape reality. This must change, or it will bring about the downfall of our republic (fact check: America is a republic, not a democracy). American
- Opinion · Jun 15, 2018Hollywood Isn’t Supportive of Abortion?
then suddenly, she’s complaining everyone’s afraid to be earnest? The only check on Hollywood’s “opportunities” to educate/indoctrinate is viewers’ clicking to another channel. Mimoun’s not really … just one of the facets of society’s search to control women.” In reality, every Hollywood writer thinking about an abortion scene is going to be controlled enough to consult
- Opinion · Jun 14, 2018Left Coast Rallies for Freedom to Change
remind them that religious liberty and free speech is for everyone! For more information, check out “ The Hidden Truth About Changing Sexual Orientation “ by FRC’s Peter Sprigg. Originally published … Commission on International Religious Freedom, where I now serve as a commissioner. The sobering reality is that religious persecution is at historic levels around the globe. While our First Freedom
- Opinion · Jun 9, 2018My Life as a Writer
checking the Yellow Pages to make sure they actually existed. My notion was to compare the image we had been brought up on in movies and books with the reality
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2018At SCOTUS, a Make or Bake Moment
dozens of other Christians can see theirs? For more analysis on the Masterpiece ruling, check out this post from FRC’s Travis Weber. Originally published here . Black to Basics … shootings that have snuffed out hundreds of innocent lives to end. But the reality is, until we have an honest conversation about our culture and what’s driving our young
- Opinion · May 17, 2018Religious Liberty: Believe Local, Act Global
human flourishing. For more on the announcement and what I’ll be doing, check out these stories in CBN , The Daily Caller , and Religion News Service . Originally published here … Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) party was supposed to have the edge in turnout, reality hasn’t exactly matched up with prophesy. And for Americans concerned about protecting President Trump
- Opinion · May 11, 2018Title X’s and No’s
plans to move forward with what they call a “domestic gag rule.” In reality, it’s just a regulation that says groups who get Title X “family planning” money … President is here, and that hope has been met.” For more on this story, check out Gen. Boykin’s interview below. Originally published here . Bishop No Pawn in Privacy Showdown
- Article · May 2, 2018Reality Check on Dems’ Blue Wave Millennials
A recent poll shows that Millennial voters’ support for Democrats has significantly
- Article · Apr 26, 2018VA Nominee Burned by Witch Hunt? Sure Looks That Way
notes that if the allegations against Jackson have merit, “they suggest that federal background checks, White House personnel management and bipartisan presidential judgment are all so flawed that this country … Trump’s next nominee needs to recognize the difficulties, like Jackson did, of a reality that only our veterans are capable of understanding. ( Updated
- Article · Apr 13, 2018Comey Outs Himself as a Partisan Hack
negligent .” As NBC News headlined it, “Comey ... paints Trump as a liar divorced from reality.” Clearly, Comey was and remains a “Trump hater,” much as his fired FBI Deputy Director … public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check.” There are plenty of rebuttals to Comey’s disapproval of Trump, and his axe-grinding
- Opinion · Apr 6, 2018Wall in a Day’s Work: Trump Moves to Secure Border
issues like this, America is better for it. For more on the news, check out FRC’s Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin on Fox News. Originally published here … effective member of Trump’s cabinet when it comes to actually translating rhetoric into reality — and they know they cannot stop him, so in typical swamp fashion,” Jenny Beth Martin
- Alexander's Column · Mar 28, 2018Liberty v. Tyranny of the Anti-2A Leftists
that has generated a lot of consternation among parents and kids nationwide, but in reality, there is not an epidemic of school shootings across our nation. Yes, the parents … really fear grassroots gun-owning Americans. The notion that the Second Amendment provides a check on the usurpations of individual rights is anathema to them, as is the thought that
- Article · Mar 26, 2018Two School Shootings, One Media Narrative
This writer checked every page of the Nation & World section in the same newspaper, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Not a word about Great Mills — despite the reality it occurred