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By: Ramesh Ponnuru – nationalreview.com – January 30, 2019 Laws permitting abortion up to the point of birth follow naturally from the country’s expansive abortion regime. Democrats are increasingly explicit in their support for killing unborn children at any stage of pregnancy — and sometimes even of denying normal medical care to born children. In New York state, Governor Andrew Cuomo…

By: Erin Griffith – nytimes.com – January 26, 2019 Never once at the start of my workweek — not in my morning coffee shop line; not in my crowded subway commute; not as I begin my bottomless inbox slog — have I paused, looked to the heavens and whispered: #ThankGodIt’sMonday. Apparently, that makes me a traitor to my generation. I…

By: Lukas Mikelionis – foxnews.com – January 29, 2019 Christian woman on death row in Pakistan acquitted Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, ruling that she is now free to leave the country where she’s facing death threats. Asia Bibi previously spent eight years on death row before being…

By: David Catron – spectator.org – January 28, 2019 There has been much wailing and rending of garments over the weekend about the layoffs of some writers, editors, and other staff at BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Yahoo, AOL, and Gannett. Naturally, the affected employees are upset and inclined to blame malign forces beyond their control. Predictably, the primary villain to emerge is…

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 24, 2019 How the media fail Our national press is a national joke. Vain, languid, excitable, morbid, duplicitous, cheap, insular, mawkish, and possessed of a chronic self-obsession that would have made Dorian Gray blush, it rambles around the United States in neon pants, demanding congratulation for its travails. Not since Florence…

By: Thomson/Reuters – newsmax.com – January 26, 2019 The U.S. economy lost at least $6 billion during the partial shutdown of the federal government due to lost productivity from furloughed workers and economic activity lost to outside business, S&P Global Ratings said on Friday. President Donald Trump agreed on Friday to end the 35-day partial shutdown, the longest in history,…

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – nationalreview.com – January 25, 2019 A question that has come up a lot over the last few weeks is: Why didn’t Republicans fund a border wall, or at least a significant increase in physical barriers at the border, when they held both houses of Congress and the White House? I think the answer comes down to…

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – nationalreview.com – January 25, 2019 A question that has come up a lot over the last few weeks is: Why didn’t Republicans fund a border wall, or at least a significant increase in physical barriers at the border, when they held both houses of Congress and the White House? I think the answer comes down to…

By: James Wesolek – txvaluesaction.org – January 22, 2019 Texas Values Action sounded the alarm today on numerous bills filed in the Texas Legislature that allow the government to criminalize people of faith and effectively ban the Bible. These bills highlight a growing national trend to punish people of faith by forcing them to celebrate LGBT viewpoints or values and…

By: Warner Todd Huston – godfatherpolitics.com – January 26, 2019 Liberals continue to cling to their claim that there is no vote fraud in the U.S.A. But a new report by authorities in Texas just found that 58,000 illegal votes were cast by non-citizens in the Lone Star state over the last few years. The Texas Department of Public Safety…

By: Merrill Matthews – mailchi.mp/ipi – January 23, 2019 A new round of White House executive actions may be coming to boost the U.S. energy industry against Russia, an ongoing effort that’s hitting Russia’s pocketbook and making it more difficult for Vladimir Putin to use oil and gas as a foreign policy weapon to promote his agenda. “The Trump administration’s…