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By David Brooks – nytimes.com – April 15, 2019 Four years ago, in the midst of the Obama presidency, I published a book called “The Road to Character.” American culture seemed to be in decent shape and my focus was on how individuals can deepen their inner lives. This week, in the midst of the Trump presidency, I’ve got another book, “The…

By: Douglas Groothuis – allaboutjazz.com – January 22, 2015 All About Jazz readers are usually very hip to the joys and challenges of listening to this uniquely American and endlessly fascinating art form we call jazz. Aficionados of jazz like to talk about jazz, like to recommend jazz to others, and like to listen to how others listen to jazz. This is why…

By: Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. – douglasgroothuis.com – December 13, 2017 Jazz is a national treasure, but is no longer a common pastime. First rock and then hip hop eclipsed its popularity long ago. Historian Gerald Early claims that three things uniquely define America: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz. Yet the sale of jazz records accounts for only a small fraction the music…

By: Samuel Chamberlain – foxnews.com – April 11, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence fired back at Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg after the South Bend, Ind., mayor criticized the vice president for his belief that homosexuality is a choice. “He said some things that are critical of my Christian faith and about me personally. And he knows better. He knows me,” Pence…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 15, 2019 Over the weekend, American political discourse reached another one of its low moments — a moment of nearly record-level hypocrisy and absurdity. And once again, a low moment centered around one of the Democrats’ celebrity House freshmen, Ilhan Omar. The cycle went like this. First, Twitter discovered an excerpt of a speech Omar…

By Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 13, 2019 Prior to the publication of the stolen Democratic-party emails and internal documents, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks exhorted Russian government hackers to send them “new material.” That is what we are told by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Russian intelligence officers. (I won’t offend anyone by calling them “spies” — after…

By: Texas Values – savechickfila.com – April 2019 We are asking all Texans to stand with Save Chick-fil-A by either coming to the Texas Capitol or visiting your local Chick-fil-A. The San Antonio City Council recently banned a Chick‑fil‑A because of its Christian values. This egregious attack follows a growing trend of anti-Christian intolerance and bigotry by the government against…

By Michael Gryboski – christianpost.com – April 10, 2019 A Michigan-based health center has reportedly given a verbal apology to two senior citizens who were stopped from telling visiting students about the religious aspects of Christmas, including while reading “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Last week, the conservative law firm the First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the Kalkaska Memorial Health…

By: Peter Hasson – dailycaller.com – April 10, 2019 Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams. Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among…

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – April 10, 2019 Facebook and Twitter executives testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill about their alleged political bias in the wake of numerous anecdotal instances of censorship reported by users of the social media sites. Carlos Monje Jr., director of public policy for Twitter Inc., and Neil Potts, public policy director for Facebook, appeared before a Senate Judiciary…

By: JarrettStepman – dailysignal.com – April 10, 2019 A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral College “evil,” a shameful…