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By: Katie Thomas and Sheila Kaplan – nytimes.com – August 11, 2018 Representative Christopher Collins once said that the success of an obscure Australian company’s drug would be carved on his tombstone. Instead, its failure has upended his congressional career. The three-term congressman’s infectious enthusiasm for Innate Immunotherapeutics, the tiny biotech firm, led to his indictment on Wednesday, when he…

By: John Fund – nationalreview.com – August 12, 2018 Will her party reach out to swing voters by persuading her to step aside? Will Democrats pull an “October Surprise” this year and announce that the highly polarizing Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco won’t be their candidate for House speaker after all? Growing up in the Bay Area, I saw Pelosi’s…

By: David French – stream.org – August 10, 2018 Imagine this news report. National media exploded today with wall-to-wall coverage of the latest fringe right-wing threat to peace and public order. A sheriff raided a New Mexico compound. It was controlled by 41-year-old Roy Austin Graham. He is the son of Franklin and grandson of Billy Graham, both famous Christian…

By: Lathan Watts – dailysignal.com – April 12, 2018 April 13 marks the 275th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. A renaissance man with a long and accomplished legacy, Jefferson played a major role in the founding of the United States of America—and establishing its strong protections for religious freedom for all. There can be no better way to celebrate one…

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 24, 2018 Congress has, over several decades, slowly delegated to the president its constitutionally prescribed role of setting tariffs—which are taxes—and regulating international commerce. It’s time for Congress to take back that authority, and it may do just that. Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution says, “The Congress shall have Power…

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 31, 2018 The Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a study by the Center’s Charles Blahous estimating the cost of a government-run, single-payer health care system similar to Senator Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act (M4A). Under single-payer, Americans drop their private insurance coverage, pay higher taxes and the government pays…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 9, 2018 On Monday — the day Facebook, Apple, and YouTube purged Alex Jones — Twitter’s Jack Dorsey made a lonely stand. In a series of tweets, Dorsey explained that Jones hadn’t violated Twitter’s rules, that Twitter intends to resist outside pressure and act “impartially regardless of political viewpoints,” and that it was…

By: Scott Wong & Mike Lillis – thehill.com – August 9, 2018 The magic number of seats Democrats need to hit to win back the House majority is 23. But in reality, it’s almost certainly a much smaller number. Several GOP-held seats are seemingly already in the bag, meaning Democrats likely need to take a smaller number of competitive seats…

By: Al Perrotta – stream.org – August 7, 2018 May 13, 2017. A predominantly black choir sits dejected. They had been rehearsing for weeks to sing for their school’s commencement speaker. Except when their big moment came, the music player failed. The program had to move on. They would not be able to sing. A few hours pass. The choir…

By: Tod Beamon – newsmax.com – August 8, 2018 Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that President Donald Trump would “resist” a subpoena from Robert Mueller as his attorneys rejected the special counsel latest’s interview offer and called for an end to the Russia investigation by Sept. 1. “There’s no question that the president would resist any kind of an attempt to…

By: Heather Mac Donald – nationalreview.com – August 8, 2018 The most significant feature of Sarah Jeong, the New York Times’ embattled new editorial board member, is not that she is a “racist,” as her critics put it. It is that she is an entirely typical product of the contemporary academy. After the New York Times announced Jeong’s hire in…