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By: Matthew Lee Anderson – thegospelcoalition.org – August 26, 2019 “My father often told me that if not for pornography, he’d have become a serial killer,” Chris Offutt once wrote in The New York Times. On Offutt’s telling, his father was both an avid consumer and creator of the dark medium, who made his living as one of America’s most prolific pornographic novelists…

By: Timothy Meads – townhall.com – August 22, 2019 New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently trashed the electoral college on her Instagram Live, saying that the system used to determine the president of the United States every four years is racist and disproportionately advantageous for white people. Tara Ross, author of Regnery’s The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders’ Plan…

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – August 22, 2019 Anything can happen before November 2020, from a hurricane to a third-party candidate. What factors usually reelect or throw out incumbent presidents? The economy counts most. Recessions, or at least chronic economic pessimism, sink incumbents. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush were tagged with sluggish growth, high unemployment, and a…

By Maureen Collins – adflegal.org – August 19, 2019 When Blaine Adamson considers which projects his shop will take on, he doesn’t look at who the customer is – he looks at the message he is being asked to print. As the owner of Hands On Originals, a promotional printing business in Lexington, Kentucky, Blaine serves everyone. But he can’t print…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 18, 2019 Supreme Court precedent travels fast. Less than two months ago the Justices ruled 7-2 that a 40-foot stone war memorial, the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Md., could stay standing on public ground, despite its religious symbolism. Now a federal appeals court has applied that logic to save a 75-year-old county seal….

By: Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – August 20, 2019 Here’s the article I wish I were writing today: the daughter of Palestinian immigrants is elected to the United States Congress, shining a light on the significance of Palestinian people everywhere. She returns to the West Bank to visit her elderly grandmother and to inspire the Palestinians with her example…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – August 20, 2019 “The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year,” The New York Times Magazine editors declare. “Doing so requires us to place…

By Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – August 20, 2019 Beto O’Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. “This country, though we would like to think otherwise,” he intoned over the weekend, “was founded on racism, has persisted through racism, and is racist today.” This is now a mainstream sentiment in the Democratic party. Bernie Sanders said earlier…

By: Gromer Jeffers Jr. – dallasnews.com – July 29, 2019 Contending that Washington needs more outside voices, retired Navy SEAL Floyd McLendon is challenging incumbent Democrat Colin Allred for Dallas’ 32nd Congressional district. “Quite frankly, I believe the political system is broken,” McLendon told The Dallas Morning News. “I understand the importance of trust in leadership.” McLendon, 45, is an executive…

By: Sarah McCammon – npr.org – August 19, 2019 Planned Parenthood is leaving the federal Title X family planning program rather than comply with new Trump administration rules regarding abortion counseling. The new rules, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year, prohibit Title X grantees from providing or referring patients for abortion, except in…

By Joshua Nelson – foxnews.com – August 19, 2019 Sacramento, California salon owner Elizabeth Novak takes to Twitter to call out Gov. Newsom after being broken into and having to clean up human excrement and trash every week. Elizabeth Novak packed up her salon and moved out of Sacramento due to the mounting problems from homelessness in the California capital, and…