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by David French –  nationalreview.com – December 27, 2017 If I had to pick one of the most under-appreciated and under-reported stories of 2017, it would be that a post-Christian America is a more vicious America, and that the triumph of secularists is rendering America more polarized, not less. Remove from the public square biblical admonitions such as “love your…

By Solange Reyner – newsmax.com – December 25, 2017 The role of religion in the Christmas holiday is on the decline, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey. Most Americans do not view Christmas as a religious holiday, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Forty-six percent of Americans say they celebrate Christmas as primarily…

By Alexa Lardieri – usnews.com – |December 26, 2017 The World Health Organization is adding an unexpected disorder to its list of mental health conditions in 2018. Next year, people who play an excessive amount of video games could find themselves diagnosed with “gaming disorder.” WHO’s beta draft of its upcoming 11th update of International Classification of Diseases characterizes gaming…

Peter Wehner – nytimes.com – December 25, 2017 The wall we have built between religion and reason is more porous than it seems. Why is it that, according to Jesus, faith is better than proof? That’s a question I’ve struggled to answer ever since I began my pilgrimage of faith as a young man. Sometimes it seemed more pressing, other…

By Hannah Furness –  telegraph.co.uk – December, 24 2012 When it comes to Christmas, it might be safe to assume children will ask Santa for an extensive list of toys, games and treats. But a survey of their typical lists for Father Christmas has shown many have more serious concerns, requesting “a dad” instead. A study of 2,000 British parents…

The Great Rules Rollback – By The Editorial Board – December 25, 2017 Reining in regulation is a major success of Trump’s first year. Amid the debate over tweets and tax reform, perhaps the most significant change brought by the first year of the Trump Presidency has been overlooked: reining in and rolling back the regulatory state at a pace…

By Jay Richards – stream.org – August 7, 2017 Too many of us are still clueless about socialism and communism. I blame biased media and fuzzy thinking. Walter Duranty, long the Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times, spent many years defending Stalinist Russia. He won a Pulitzer Prize for it. And now, in 2017, the Times has a series,…

By: Paul Jacob – townhall.com – December 24, 2017 “They’ve been burned. They’ve been hammered. They’ve been bludgeoned,” George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston explains to the Washington Post. “They’re trying to survive.” In this heartbreaking discussion during this special time of year, the “they” are the poor, long-suffering folks . . . at the Internal Revenue Service. It…

By Julia A. Seymour and Aly Nielsen – Newsbusters.org – December 18, 2017 Liberal media bias has existed for years, but in 2017, it appeared to reach unprecedented levels given the media’s hostility to President Donald Trump. The media distorted many stories in 2017, in many different ways. They ranged from lies such as Al Gore’s claim that “Superstorm Sandy” proved…

By: David French – nationalreview.com –  December 21, 2017 The Republican tax relief should have helped working families more, but the help it does give is a meaningful improvement over the status quo. Earlier this week, my family received a disturbing piece of junk mail. I’m used to getting simulated checks in the mail, advertisements for personal loans or potential home-equity…

By: Rich Lowery – nationalreview.com – December 19, 2017 As the year ends, President Trump is compiling a solid record of accomplishment. As the year ends, he is compiling a solid record of accomplishment. Republicans have tried, on and off, to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling since the 1980s. The effort has always engendered intense opposition…