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By: Kimberly Amadeo – thebalance.com – March 28, 2019 The U.S. debt is the sum of all outstanding debt owed by the federal government. On February 11, 2019, it exceeded $22 trillion. It passed the milestone of $21 trillion on March 15, 2018. The U.S. Treasury Department’s “Debt to the Penny” shows the current total public debt outstanding. This figure changes every…

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – bloomberg.com – April 16, 2019 Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is one of the many candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But that’s not his only long-shot bid. He also wants to claim Christianity for contemporary progressive politics. “Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction,” he told USA Today. Even…

By: The New York Times – nytimes.com – April 16, 2019 With the flames extinguished, the smoke clear and a new sun risen over Paris, the French got a heartening confirmation on Tuesday: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame still stands. It is scorched, battered and missing its spire and much of its roof, but the 800-year-old Gothic masterwork that symbolized both a place…

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…