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By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – January 23, 2019 We are headed for another failed Republican presidency. Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily “Border Wall Construction Update” on Twitter, announcing how many miles of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the inauguration. It was always the same numbers: 0…

By: Stephen Collinson – CNN.com – January 24, 2019 Washington (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi isn’t giving an inch. The House speaker, fortified by brutal polling for Donald Trump, refuses to provide the President an easy way out of his own political box as the government shutdown sparked by his demand for a border wall drags into a 34th day. In…

By: Sister Toldjah – redstate.com – January 23, 2019 Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is making a name for himself in Washington, DC with his unique brand of pushback against the political opposition. He’s unafraid to mix it up with even the most vocal of critics both in the mainstream media and on the progressive left while at the same time…

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – January 23, 2019 A week ago, I outlined a proposal under which both political parties could claim some modicum of a victory, reopen the government, and allocate more money for enhanced border security — including new barriers along portions of the southern border. Needless to say, on day 33 of this partial shutdown, my…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 23, 2019 What’s going on? The Supreme Court has taken its first gun-rights case in almost a decade, and it’s a strange case indeed. At issue is what appears to be a draconian, one-of-a-kind New York City law that prohibits any person who possesses a license to own a gun in their home from…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 22, 2019 Over the last 72 hours, I’ve been asking myself a simple question: What would happen if a group of Black Israelites had spent an hour taunting my son’s high-school football team? How would they have reacted if a Native American elder had walked into their midst – apparently not saying anything…

Welcome to another controversy algorithmically designed to tear America apart. By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – January 22, 2019 In a short story published last October, “Sort by Controversial,” Scott Alexander imagines a Silicon Valley company that accidentally comes up with an algorithm to generate what it calls a “Scissor.” The scissor is a statement, an idea or a scenario…

By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – January 19, 2019 One of the frustrating tics of our society’s progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in the past, that this generation is the first to wrestle with dominance and cruelty. This forgetting of human experience, this perpetual present-tenseness, pervades the latest flashpoint in the culture…

By: Associated Press – nbcnews.com – January 21, 2019 The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, the school’s president said, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to…

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – January 21, 2019 And the pressure they bring to bear will be a major test of faith for Christians. Think of a country where leading politicians question whether members of a long-established religious minority are fit for public office. Or where the head of state attacks the legal protections that allow minority religions…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 21, 2019 One of the hallmarks of populism is that it rarely represents mass mobilization simply for the people. It’s also typically mass mobilization against an opposing force — whether it’s the hated elite or the despised “other.” The for/against dynamic is inherent to some degree in all of politics, but mobilization against…