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By: Alex Chediak – stream.org – June 9, 2018 Americans are becoming more permissive on moral issues like smoking pot, same sex relations, divorce, pornography, even polygamy. That’s according to Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, which was conducted May 1-10 and released this week. The trends are the interesting part. Smoking Pot In 2018, support for smoking pot was…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – June 10, 2018 Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Goldberg argues that Fox News is “a danger to this country,” as the headline put it. Goldberg is the editorial-page editor of the paper, and he offers the familiar lament: “We live in an era in which Americans are being encouraged to disregard…

By: David Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 5, 2018 Something funny happens when you actually take time to analyze a gravely transformative piece of legislation. It’s something that not a single member of the House who voted for the aptly named First Step Act got a chance to do: You understand the consequences of the bill. Proponents of the bill,…

By: Paul Mirengoff – powerlineblog.com – June 7, 2018 Earlier this week, Majority Leader McConnell cancelled most of the Senate’s August recess. He did so in response to the unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats in blocking floor votes on President Trump’s nominees. The cancellation hurts Democrats, and not just because it’s a blow against their obstruction. There are more vulnerable…

By: Guy Benson – townhill.com – June 7, 2018 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the upper chamber’s traditional August break would be severely limited this year. Democrats have lashed out at the decision, accusing McConnell of playing partisan hardball in an election year. They say he’s scheming to keep them in session, rather than back home (and…

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – June 6, 2018 Both Mexico and the European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products as President Donald Trump prepares for potentially confrontational talks with allies at the Group of Seven summit. The G-7 gathering will take place Friday and Saturday in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Trump has pushed 25 percent tariffs on…

Mexico and the European Union have retaliated against the U.S. for the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Source: 4 Key Points in Tariffs Debate as Trump Heads to G-7 Summit

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recently said that trade negotiations will continue even if newly imposed U.S. tariffs are in place. Then he added, “God knows, there are plenty of tariffs the EU has on us.” President Trump echoed that complaint in a recent tweet: “If we charge a country ZERO to sell their…

By: Joshua Zumbrun & Vivian Salama – wsj.com – June 6, 2018 President Donald Trump, heading into this weekend’s meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, has signaled his intention to continue pursuing an aggressive trade agenda even if it comes at the expense of America’s standing in the world. The “world trade system is a mess,” Mr. Trump’s…

By: Ryan T. Anderson – wsj.com – June 6, 2018 A 7-2 win at the Supreme Court is a big deal. But some advocates of religious freedom minimized the importance of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, saying it was a narrow ruling that applies only to the manifest hostility to religion the commission showed in adjudicating Jack Phillips’s…

By: Jeremiah Poff – dailysignal.com – June 06, 2018 A major conservative-libertarian advocacy group has thrown its support behind President Donald Trump’s call for canceling more than $15 billion in spending as a good first step in reining in the federal budget. Americans for Prosperity praises the president’s rescission request, which would claw back up to $15.3 billion in appropriated…