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By: Nicole Goodkind – newsweek.com – August 28, 2018 With less than three months until the midterm elections, new poll data has Democratic Texas Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke in a statistical tie with incumbent Ted Cruz. An Emerson College e-poll conducted from August 22-25 had Cruz with 38 percent of the vote and O’Rourke with 37 percent. About 21 percent…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 As I watch the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church, an analogy one of my pastors once made comes to mind. It will likely make some of my Catholic friends uncomfortable, but it’s helpful for understanding the way many Protestants view the larger body of Christ, the “Holy Catholic Church” of the…

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 Well, it’s a relief to discover that, despite all its troubles, the Roman Catholic Church is still capable of producing gripping melodrama. This weekend Pope Francis was in Ireland, capping off the Church’s “World Meeting of Families,” held in Dublin. He apologized over and over again for the sins of…

By: Nicole Darrah – FoxNews.com – August 27, 2018 The gunman who opened fire on a “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday was hospitalized previously for mental illness, according to court records. Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore showed that as a teenager he was hospitalized twice in psychiatric facilities and was…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2018 Wrapping up the week: why a Democratic House majority almost certainly means Nancy Pelosi will be speaker of the House again, why the world needs to get tougher with China, and an allegedly paranoid memo in the White House that . . . doesn’t really seem all that paranoid, considering recent…

The Senate should focus on questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. By: George Will – nationalreview.com – August 26, 2018 Senate Republicans and Democrats are at daggers drawn over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Instead, they should unsheathe some questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. The Constitution vests in Congress the…

A Hanoi prison could not shake his faith in American exceptionalism. By: The Editorial Board – WSJ.com – August 26, 2018 When John McCain was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967, he was near death: his leg, both arms and left shoulder were broken. Some of his fellow POWs didn’t think he’d make it. But the Naval Academy grad…

By: Kelly Shackelford – dailycaller.com – August 21, 2018 President Trump promised the American people that he would nominate constitutional conservatives to the federal bench. He has delivered on that promise in spades. But establishment politicians are pushing President Trump to nominate Judge Sul Ozerden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. That would be a big…

By: The Editorial Board – WSJ.com – August 23, 2018 Shhhhhhhhh. Whatever else you do, please don’t mention the “I word” between now and November. That’s the public message from Democratic leaders and most of their media friends this week after Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and his criminal allegations against President Trump. Between now and Election Day, “impeachment” is the…

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – August 23, 2018 If you’ve ever wondered how Russia became America’s most fearsome enemy, long after that country gave up Communism, gulags, forced starvations and mass murder (all of which liberals were cool with), the answer is: This crackpot idea came from the same woman who blamed a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for Monica Lewinsky….

By: Theodore Bunker – newsman.com – August 23, 2018 Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said on the Senate floor Thursday he told President Donald Trump that firing the U.S. attorney general would be an extremely “bad idea,” The Hill reports. “It’s been a strange couple of hours – lots and lots of goofy talk about firing the attorney general,” Sasse said….