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By: Victor Davis Hanson – townhall.com – January 01, 2020 The Washington Post recently published a surprising indictment of MSNBC host, Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow. Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that Maddow deliberately misled her audience by claiming the now-discredited Steele dossier was largely verifiable — even at a time when there was plenty of evidence that it…

By: Brandon Morse – redstate.com – January 2, 2020 While former VP Joe Biden has been leading the 2020 pack of Democrats since even before the race began, I think at this point it’s clear that he may very well fall before the “democratic” socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders. That is if the Democratic National Committee doesn’t interfere in the same…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – January 2, 2020 Julian Castro is departing the presidential race, Cory Booker may not be far behind, and as I write on the home page today, Andrew Yang is going to have a hell of a time hitting 15 percent and winning a delegate in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, or South Carolina. If you…

By: Myron Magnet – wsj.com – January 1, 2020 Does it make sense that a person can burn an American flag with impunity but not a gay-pride flag? Earlier this month, a judge in Story County, Iowa, sentenced Adolfo Martinez to a preposterous 16 years in prison for swiping the rainbow flag from a nearby church and burning it in front…

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – December 30, 2019 So far, it looks like the decade of social media will make moral panics a habit. My nomination for the trend of the decade is the expansion of social media and the contraction of our social world into it. At the very end of the first decade of the century, social media…

By Zogby – zogbyanalytics.com – December 29, 2019 The president’s numbers remain solid: 50% at least somewhat approve of his job as president and 48% at least somewhat disapprove; 2% were not sure. Trump is doing well and winning back support with important swing voters: Independents (42% at least somewhat approve/52% at least somewhat disapprove), Hispanics (45% at least somewhat approve/55%…

By: Mary Margaret Olohan – dailycaller.com – December 30, 2019 Lawmakers passed a slew of pro-life legislation in 2019. President Donald Trump declared taxpayer funds could no longer be used to support abortion in the same year. “Pro-life momentum is surging across the country leading into 2020,” one leader told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Pro-life lawmakers and advocates passed a…

By: Colby Itkowitz – sfgate.com – December 21, 2019 After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November’s election. Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. circuit court judges. Two of his picks sit on the Supreme Court. And this past…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 30, 2019 Regarding the movement of equity prices, we associate with the words of Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the head of Bear Stearns during the 1987 market crash: “Stocks fluctuate, next question.” The good news in 2019 is that mostly they fluctuated up, which offers a lesson or two. Stock prices fell Monday, no…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – December 29, 2019 On the hypocrisy of celebrity activists I love Emma Thompson’s acting. I wish somebody would tell her about Skype. The great English actress is a climate-change activist, “activist” here meaning “a celebrity who cares about popular causes in public.” When she recently was accused of hypocrisy for jumping on a jet to…

By: Bronson Stocking – townhall.com – December 29, 2019 Following a spate of antisemitic attacks in Democratic-led New York, Democratic politicians have been busy trying to shift the blame on Donald Trump. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, New York City Mayor Mike de Blasio blamed Donald Trump for creating an “atmosphere of hate” that has somehow fueled antisemitic attacks…