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By: Juliegrace Brufke – thehill.com – 02/14/19 The House voted Thursday night to approve a border security deal that prevents a new government shutdown in a 300-128 vote. The vote sets up President Trump to sign the legislation — and to declare a national emergency as a way of getting more federal funds for his wall on the Mexican border. The House-passed legislation…

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – February 14, 2019 What a tangled web we weave . . . In 1994, the Clinton administration decreed a bright shining future for education. Its Goals 2000 legislation proclaimed that by that year America’s high-school-graduation rate would be 90 percent and American students would lead the world in math and science achievements. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan…

By: Steve Forbes – investors.com – December 26, 2018 Green New Deal: Democrats will try to flex their new-found electoral muscle in Congress by pushing for what has been described as the “largest expansion of government in decades.” It’s called the Green New Deal, and it promises to be a major economic disaster if it ever becomes American law. Those who…

By: Wesley J. Smith – firstthings.com – January 8, 2016 Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will be “a last resort” reserved for the terminally ill, to be deployed only in the context of a long-term relationship with a caring doctor and, even then, strictly when there is no other…

By: Alex McFarland – alexmcfarland.com – January 16, 2019 One could argue that the American culture has abandoned many things in recent history. But the greatest loss among them, says religion and culture expert, national radio host and author Dr. Alex McFarland, is the abandonment of natural law. “The 21st century is different from all other generations, in that we…

By: Erin Jones – dfw.cbslocal.com – November 27, 2018 Police units taking two hours to show up to a shooting or a robbery. It’s what one Dallas Police officer says department records show and he’s on a mission to do something about it. A YouTube video Officer Nick Novello posted last week has been viewed more than 11,000 times. In it,…

By: Kate Shellnutt – christianitytoday.com – February 6, 2019 Millennials used to be the group that churches and ministries were angling to evangelize. Now, all grown up and poised to overtake Baby Boomers as the largest generation, they’re the ones doing the evangelizing. At least they should be. But new research from Barna Group and the creators of the Alpha…

By: Ben Sasse – usatoday.com – February 12, 2019 Democrats blocked care for babies after failed abortions. Either they agree with infanticide, or don’t have the courage to stand up to those who do. Infanticide shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Every single public servant should be able to say it’s wrong to leave newborn babies to die. Sadly, that’s not happening….

By: Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, John Tedesco, & Jon Shapley – houstonchronicle.com – February 10, 2019 First of three parts Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez’s voice trembled as she described her trauma to a group of Southern Baptist leaders. She was 14, she said, when she was first molested by her pastor in Sanger, a tiny prairie town an hour…

By: Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org –  February 11, 2019 I am writing this morning’s Daily Article with a grieving heart. I became a Christian in a Southern Baptist Sunday school class and was baptized in a Southern Baptist church. I was licensed and ordained as a vocational minister in that church. I attended college at a Texas Baptist university and…

By: Jacob Gershman wsj.com – February 8, 2019 Conservative and liberal states are pulling farther apart on the issue of abortion in response to the heightened possibility that the Supreme Court could limit access to some procedures. In Republican-led statehouses, such as Ohio and Kentucky, lawmakers are getting behind proposals to ban the procedure within the first trimester of a…