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By: Jim Kreyenhagen – forbes.com – July 23, 2018 Let’s face it — millennials get a bad rap. The popular cliche is that they’re me-focused, narcissistic or unmotivated, but the truth is, they battle steep hurdles today that other generations didn’t face. Beyond that, they tend to be confident, informed, savvy, tech-centric and very knowledgeable consumers. They’re highly entrepreneurial, and…

By: Mike Adams – stream.org – July 23, 2018 Lately, I have been hearing a lot about white male privilege. In fact, just this week a feminist named Lucy got upset with me for using my “white male privilege” to decry abortion in several of my posts on social media. Specifically, she was concerned that I was trying to “use…

By: Mary DeMuth – marydemuth.com – July 13, 2018 Last night I watched the Paterno movie (HBO films). While it is not a documentary, the film agonizes the watcher with every single side of the sexual abuse “debate” especially when it comes to institutional protectionism. Here’s the trailer: The entire movie grieved me, triggered me, saddened me. I see the…

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – July , 2018 Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia, France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison. It’s fair to say the soccer match was worthier of feting. The Bastille takeover sparked the French…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 20, 2018 I’ve got some questions for my progressive readers. When you think of Colin Kaepernick, do you define him by his quiet kneeling and many thoughtful interviews? Or do you define him by the socks he wore once, dehumanizing cops as pigs? When you think of writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, do you define…

By: Alex Roarty – miamiherald.com – July 20, 2018 Leading moderate Democrats forcefully argued this week that the party can embrace a robust agenda of change while still praising capitalism and downplaying income inequality. In other words, everything the empowered liberal base has spent a year and a half mobilizing against. Democrats gathered here in Ohio’s capital city on Thursday…

By: Karoun Demirjian – washingtonpost.com – July 19, 2018 The GOP’s bid to transform the federal bench with conservative judges hit its first significant snag Thursday as the White House withdrew the nomination of Ryan Bounds to serve on the powerful and famously liberal 9th Circuit appeals court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would withdraw Bounds’s nomination…

By: Cynthia M. Allen – star-telegram.com – July 19, 2018 The 2016 presidential election presented people who value religious freedom with a conundrum. The moral character of both major party candidates made voting for either an unsavory task. But Trump’s campaign promise to appoint conservative judges who would defend the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty was ultimately enough to…

Portrait of Gen. Benedict Arnold by an unknown artist. The American soldier joined the colonial forces during the War of Independence, 1775-83, took part in the unsuccessful siege of Quebec, and ultimately fled to the British lines after a failed plot to surrender West Point. He’s the most famous traitor in U.S. history. (Photo: Library of Congress, AP) By: Rick Hampson…

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – July 19, 2018 Did President Trump bungle the moment in Helsinki by casting doubt on American intelligence findings that Russian agents “meddled” in the 2016 election? His critics, including some Republicans, say so — and on Tuesday, Trump said he had misspoken when he expressed doubt about Russian culpability — but several things need…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 19, 2018 The stage may be set for Brett Kavanaugh’s first Second Amendment test as a justice. Every now and then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — arguably the nation’s most progressive federal circuit — can offer up a legal surprise. Yesterday, it gave us a legal shock, when a divided panel…