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By: David French – nationalreview.com – September 6, 2018 Dear Anonymous, This isn’t normal Washington politics anymore. It’s not a game. Your instantly infamous New York Times op-ed has painted us a picture of your character, and it’s not pretty. Let’s put this as bluntly as possible: If you’re actively defying the president to pursue your own preferred policies, you’re…

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – September 6, 2018 I just read the op-ed by “Anonymous” in the New York Times, revealing the “secret” that some of President Trump’s own people have been flouting his legal authority. We’ve known it all along. The administration of our duly elected president, Donald Trump, is honeycombed with people who have no business working…

By: Streiff – redstate.com – September 6, 2018 Screengrab of Cory Booker flashing White Power sign from https://youtu.be/dY2YCdBONWE Wow, what an epic day at the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. And it is only noon. Yesterday, Kamala Harris had center stage. Today it is New Jersey senator, T-bone’s best friend, and 2020 presidential hopeful Cory Booker. James Hohmann✔ @jameshohmann Breaking: Cory Booker…

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – September 6, 2018 For liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, it’s an easy choice regarding the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Both sides have made up their minds weeks before these hearings, which have devolved into total clown shows, started this week. With former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl being tapped to serve the…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – September 5, 2018 We hear a lot about norms these days. We live in a time when alleged pre-existing norms of decency, civility, and respect are being cast aside for the sake of “winning.” The ends justify the means, and a dignified loser is just that: a loser. There is a real sense that…

By: Hannah Giorgis – theatlantic.com – September 5, 2018 Monday afternoon, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick tweeted a tightly cropped grayscale photo of his face, emblazoned with a simple message: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” Below Kaepernick’s lips, the Nike logo accompanied the company’s pithy slogan: “Just do it.” For Kaepernick, the “something”…

By: Pete Scazzero  – emotionallyhealthy.org – August 2018 Pete Scazzero is the founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-three countries represented. After serving as senior pastor for twenty-six years, Pete now serves as a teaching pastor/pastor at large. He is the author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader and…

By: Ayesha Rascoe – npr.org – September 4, 2018 White House staff concerned about President Trump’s leadership have hidden documents from him to prevent him from signing off on certain actions, according to reports about an explosive new book from renowned Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. Woodward’s latest book, Fear, is focused on the Trump White House and is set…

By: Brian Naylor – npr.org – September 4, 2018 The first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings was long on quarreling, protesting and speechifying. While good theater, there was little actually learned about the man whom President Trump has nominated for a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court. Here are a few takeaways from Tuesday’s often…

By: John R. Lott, Jr. – townhall.com – September 3, 2018 Politicians at Senator McCain’s funeral were bemoaning the loss of civility in politics, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing this week for the Supreme Court surely promises to prove that. There definitely has been a decline in political civility in recent years. Some say it started with Robert Bork’s…

By: Ken Blackwell – stream.org – September 3, 2018 Spoiler alert: it’s easy to predict much of what will happen this week during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. That’s because Democrats showed their hands almost immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Court, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the…