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By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – April 20, 2023 It’s difficult to understate the perverse incentives that penalizing homebuyers with good credit will create. The fallout from the 2008 implosion of the mortgage market was still settling over the American economic landscape in mid February 2009, when Barack Obama’s party passed a massive $787 billion stimulus designed, ostensibly, to staunch the bleeding. Not…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled a sweeping package that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year. The Republican leader announced the bill Wednesday just as President Joe Biden was preparing to deliver a speech in Maryland. The 320-page package imposes a long list of Republican priorities, including new spending caps, work requirements for recipients…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy noted the average American family has lost the equivalent of more than $7,000 in annual income.

By Jeff Charles – redstate.com –  April 20, 2023 The House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, and the progressive left is quite upset by it. The legislation, which is intended to protect female athletes, has been met with scorn from Democrats, who insist it is transphobic. The Protection of Women and Girls in…

That didn’t take long. The Mayor-elect of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, responded to a group of teenagers who attacked cars and assaulted drivers in the Loop last weekend by what sounds like justification for their behavior.  

First Liberty will be at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 18 arguing our Faithful Carrier case involving Gerald Groff, the postal worker who was wrongfully forced to quit his job because of his religious beliefs.

Gerald Groff was forced to quit his job as a postal carrier because of his religious beliefs. He believes in the Christian Sabbath, but the USPS refused his religious accommodation request not to work on Sundays after initially granting his request.

Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution…

By: Ryan T. Anderson – wsj.com – April 18, 2023 After the Wisconsin result, Ann Coulter tweeted the conventional wisdom: “The demand for anti-abortion legislation just cost Republicans another crucial race. Pro-lifers: WE WON. Abortion is not a ‘constitutional right’ anymore! Please stop pushing strict limits on abortion, or there will be no Republicans left.” Ms. Coulter is wrong on several…

Hundreds of people blocking streets, looting stores, and destroying property should not be normal occurrences. They are not normal in a peaceful, prosperous society.  

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – April 18, 2023 No ‘clear motive’ in the Nashville shooting, NBC reports. On March 27, three nine-year-old students and three staff members at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., were shot to death by a 28-year-old former student. More than two weeks later, that is still all we know for sure about this…