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By Merrill Matthews – postbulletin.com – January 23, 2019 Your father’s Democratic Party might have a good chance at capturing the White House in 2020; your children’s Democratic Party, which is what we have today, faces a tougher fight. To win the election, Democrats will have to overcome two major obstacles: history and their lurch to the political left. They…

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – January 23, 2019 As reported by The Post’s Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane last week, and confirmed to me by Sens. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Senate Republicans are very close to changing the body’s rules governing the amount of time the Senate can debate a nomination. Doing so will…

By: Liz Wolfe – thefederalist.com – January 24, 2019 Yesterday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed expansive new abortion legislation into law, effectively making it easier for state residents to obtain post-viability, third-trimester abortions. The old text of the law allowed third-trimester abortions to be sought if the mother’s health was endangered; the just-passed Reproductive Health Act (RHA) expands the…

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…