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By: John G. Malcolm & Amy Swearer – dailysignal.com – March 14, 2018 Global statistics show that higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with higher rates of violent crime. (Photo: DmyTo/Getty Images) In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and…

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – March 14, 2018 On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Lesley Stahl asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about the “institutional racism” in school discipline. It was like neither of them had ever heard of Nikolas Cruz. The Parkland, Florida, school shooter is our most recent case study of what happens when liberals start babbling about…

By: Jay Cost – nationalreview.com – March 15, 2018 Unless Trump’s approval rating climbs, get ready to say, ‘Speaker Nancy Pelosi.’ Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district has people wondering whether the Republicans can control the House in November. PA-18, after all, went to Trump by 20 points in the 2016 election, so…

By: Stacey Lennox – themaven.net – March 14, 2018 A federal appeals court ruled that the majority of Texas law banning sanctuary cities can be implemented for now. Today a federal appeals judge ruled most of the Texas law outlawing sanctuary cities within the state can be implemented while the legal challenge continues in a lower court. Governor Abbott decided…

By: Staff – newsmax.com – March 14, 2018 President Donald Trump has chosen Larry Kudlow to be his top economic aide, elevating the influence of a long-time fixture on the CNBC business news network who previously served in the Reagan administration and has emerged as a leading evangelist for tax cuts and a smaller government. Kudlow told The Associated Press…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2018 Evangelicals had good reasons to vote for Trump; they don’t have good reasons to join his tribe. Over at The Atlantic, Michael Gerson, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, has penned an extended essay that attempts to explain a complex and disturbing reality — how Evangelicals “became an anxious religious minority…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2018 Evangelicals had good reasons to vote for Trump; they don’t have good reasons to join his tribe. Over at The Atlantic, Michael Gerson, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, has penned an extended essay that attempts to explain a complex and disturbing reality — how Evangelicals “became an anxious religious minority…

By: John Quiggin – nytimes.com – March 6, 2018 The Pew Research Center announced last week that it will define people born between 1981 and 1996 as members of the millennial generation, embracing a slightly narrower range of years than the ones used by the United States Census Bureau. It would have been better, though, if it had announced the…

By: Peter Baker, Gardiner Harris & Mark Landler – nytimes.com – March 13, 2018 President Trump on Tuesday ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, extending a shake-up of his administration, 14 months into his tumultuous presidency, and potentially transforming the nation’s economic and foreign policy. Mr. Trump announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A….

By: Michael Gerson – theatlantic.com – April 2018 Issue One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump. The president won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians. This was a higher level of support than either Ronald Reagan…

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – March 13, 2018 At The City College of New York in the late 1930s, my father, an Orthodox Jew, wrote his senior class thesis on anti-Semitism in America. He delineated common realities of the era, such as Jews’ admission to law firms, country clubs and colleges being denied or restricted, and various other manifestations…