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By: Staff – firstliberty.org – March 10, 2020 Religious Liberty Firm to Supreme Court: End this Assault on Little Sisters of the Poor, Religious Organizations First Liberty Institute files friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of charity urging Court to preserve religious exemption from ACA’s contraceptive mandate Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Little Sisters of the Poor v….

By: Victor Davis Hanson – townhall.com – March 12, 2020 Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy — which, of course, is exactly what it is. But imagine for a moment that we are in real war with a cognizant, thinking and clever enemy whose sole reason to live is to hurt, maim…

By Erin Anderson – texasscorecard.com – March 11, 2020 Ballot-counting mistakes in last week’s Super Tuesday primaries are raising more questions about the competence of a Democrat election official in Texas’ second-most populous county. Days after the counting was finished, Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole discovered “discrepancies” between the number of voters accepted to vote and the number of ballots received at…

By: Sean Sullivan – WashingtonPost.com – March 10, 2020 After sustaining damaging losses in the March 3 Super Tuesday contests, Sen. Bernie Sanders had one critical week to grow his support, change the story line and revitalize his campaign. Instead, he spent it largely in combat against the party he hopes to lead. He accused former rivals of bowing to establishment…

By: Matt Shaheen – dallasnews.com – January 15, 2020 With the huge gains for education made this past legislative session, I have been spending a lot of time visiting schools across my Plano and North Dallas district. I’ve been listening to teachers, principals and parents about how to build on our legislative success. The overwhelming issue I’m hearing is frustration…

By: Betsy Swan & Olivia Messer – thedailybeast.com – March 11, 2020 Last week, Republican members of Congress heard a sober warning in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill: There’s a good chance most people in the United States will eventually be exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to one former official. The assessment, from a former White House public-health official who…

By: John Stonestreet – breakpoint.org – December 12, 2019 Between 2014 and 2017, the divorce rate in Jacksonville, Florida, and surrounding Duval County fell 24 percent. Of course, divorce rates are falling nationally already, possibly because fewer people are bothering to get married. Still, 24 percent is a huge number, especially compared to a 6 percent decline nationally and a 10 percent…

By: Jim Talent – FoxNews.com – March 9, 2020 I’ve been engaged with the issue of pandemic preparation for over 10 years. Former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., and I headed up a nonprofit, early in the last decade, which sponsored a stem-to-stern study of how well America’s public health infrastructure would respond to a pandemic. We found a number of areas where the national…

By: Joy Pullmann – thefederalist.com – February 10, 2020 This week, House Democrats will reportedly pass a measure to lift the 1982 deadline on a feminist amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although the Supreme Court, legal scholars, and the U.S. Department of Justice have said the attempt is unconstitutional. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in the 1980s by a woman-led coalition…

By: Demetrick Pennie – americanthinker.com – February 22, 2020 Congressional elections have unintended consequences for the nation.  The Republican Party cannot afford to wake up on November 4, 2020 and find that it was a day late, and a district short, because of an unwillingness to go into Democrat-heavy districts to campaign for the black vote.  President Trump understands what is at stake for the…

By: Tim Pearce – Washingtonexaminer.com – March 05, 2020 A judge sitting on the D.C. Circuit Court will retire in September, allowing President Trump the chance to install a third judge on the influential bench. Judge Thomas Griffith told colleagues at the court that he plans to retire in September, two months before the presidential election and clearing the way for Trump…