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Since it was introduced 10 years ago, the iPhone has been a great disrupter, heralding an end to everything from paper maps to small talk. Here’s a (slightly) tongue-in-cheek look at all the things this ubiquitous gadget has laid to waste. Source: Drew Jordan and A.J. Chavar, nytimes.com

Hollywood got a much-needed jolt after a disappointing summer thanks to two letters: “It.” The adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel broke several box office records as it opened to a massive $117.2 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates. “It” more than doubled the prior highest September opening, $48.5 million for “Hotel Transylvania 2” in 2015,…

Earlier generations, which were formed by families that had lived through the Great Depression, have had a different approach to work than millennials today. A scarcity mindset in previous generations drove employees to be satisfied with a job that paid their bills. Today, some millennials are often more likely to prefer a lower income and career satisfaction than a high…

  By: Kelly Shackelford and James C. Ho – thehill.com – September 1, 2017 The day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2015-2016 term, three justices issued a troubling statement. It was four months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and the Court had just fallen one vote short of taking a significant religious freedom case. In response, Justice…

Getting the Senate back to work doesn’t require changing its rules. Republicans have all the tools they need to curb Democrats’ ability to obstruct. By: James Wallner – thefederalist.com Democrats have threatened to filibuster Republican efforts to debate important legislation on the Senate floor. But this is nothing new. The filibuster has been used in the past to frustrate both Democratic…

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – August 31, 2017 Okay—well, if you want contrarianism, Salon and the Washington Post-affiliated Slate are your go-to places. Hurricane Harvey pummeled Texas’ gulf Coast with wind, rain, and flooding, which has left at least 18 dead. Around 11 trillion gallons of water was poured into the Houston area. Yet, the Louisiana-based Cajun Navy and…

by Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – August 31, 2017 The piece’s problems didn’t end with the title. ‘Houston,” declared a Slate headline, “Doesn’t Showcase ‘America at Its Best.’” When a tweet promoting the article from the site’s official account went viral, and not in a good way, the editors reconsidered the wisdom of trolling a suffering city, deleted the tweet,…

By: Jonah Goldberg – townhall.com – August 30, 2017 Even hurricanes have a silver lining: The downpour washes away a lot of bull. Don’t get me wrong. This is a tragedy for untold thousands of people. And no upside could possibly balance the scale against the downside. The full human toll of Harvey, now a tropical storm, remains to be…

By: Rachel Alexander – stream.org – August 30, 2017 Thanks to Democrats abusing Senate rules, there are now more judicial vacancies than there were when President Donald Trump first took office. Even though he is “naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record-setting numbers,” according to The Washington Post.  As long as those positions stay open, other judges will…

By: William M. Briggs – stream.org – August 30, 2017 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is so upset that Senator Marco Rubio has been tweeting quotations from the Bible, they wrote him a hot letter about it. Professing themselves to be wise, the group became fools and say Senators quoting the Bible is a “constitutional violation.” We understand that you have been…

  by: David French – nationalreview.com – August 30, 2017 A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. Don’t ever forget that, for some folks, “separation of church and state” is a half-measure. It’s just a pit stop on the road to de-Christianizing America. It’s a temporary means to…