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By: Jonah Goldberg – townhall.com – August 30, 2017 Even hurricanes have a silver lining: The downpour washes away a lot of bull. Don’t get me wrong. This is a tragedy for untold thousands of people. And no upside could possibly balance the scale against the downside. The full human toll of Harvey, now a tropical storm, remains to be…

By: Rachel Alexander – stream.org – August 30, 2017 Thanks to Democrats abusing Senate rules, there are now more judicial vacancies than there were when President Donald Trump first took office. Even though he is “naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record-setting numbers,” according to The Washington Post.  As long as those positions stay open, other judges will…

By: William M. Briggs – stream.org – August 30, 2017 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is so upset that Senator Marco Rubio has been tweeting quotations from the Bible, they wrote him a hot letter about it. Professing themselves to be wise, the group became fools and say Senators quoting the Bible is a “constitutional violation.” We understand that you have been…

  by: David French – nationalreview.com – August 30, 2017 A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. Don’t ever forget that, for some folks, “separation of church and state” is a half-measure. It’s just a pit stop on the road to de-Christianizing America. It’s a temporary means to…

Claire Lopez, Center for Security Policy vice president for research and analysis spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday in reaction to President Trump’s Afghanistan announcement. Saying there were some elements of the speech she liked, while citing its lack of specifics, Lopez continued, “The former two presidencies in Afghanistan, their policy allowed the establishment and the enforcement…

Americans are increasingly becoming more isolated, and public health experts are concerned. In the United States, about a quarter of the population lives alone. Marriage rates and the number of kids per U.S. household are also dropping, according to census data. Now, research presented this month at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association underlines the connection between…

One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she…

You may have heard that a Google software engineer anonymously circulated a memo about “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” The tech blog Motherboard reports that the memo went viral within the company. In it, the engineer argues that Google has created a “politically correct monoculture” in which honest discussion of its hiring practices is impossible. The author avows several times that…

Conservative efforts at health-care reform are, for the moment, a shambles. Conservative efforts at tax reform are foundering as well, though their prospects may be sunnier, given the habitual Republican appetite for tax cuts of almost any description, including irresponsible ones. Both the tax-reform project and the health-care project have run into trouble because of a lack of intellectual and…

The Senate GOP’s health failure is a political debacle that will compound for years, and the first predictable fallout is already here: Republicans in Congress are under pressure to bail out the Obama Care exchanges, even as Donald Trump threatens to let them collapse. The GOP needs to get at least some reform in return if it’s going to save…