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By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – November 30, 2017 In the interest of intellectual honesty and transparency, let’s begin with a few important concessions to skeptics of the GOP tax reform bill: First, not every single American would be a winner under the plan.  A small percentage of US taxpayers would see a tax increase (disproportionately, these would be higher-income…

By: Cortney O’Brien – townhall.com – November 30, 2017 Americans were rightfully outraged when they learned that members of Congress had used taxpayer dollars to pay settlement claims to alleged victims of sexual harassment. They were even more outraged when they saw the numbers. The secret payouts for harassment claims, of which there have been more than 200, amounted to…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – November 30, 2017 The First Amendment and nondiscrimination laws should point the Supreme Court to the just decision. Forgive me for starting a piece with the oldest cliché in the practice of law. As the saying goes, “If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If the facts are on your…

By: Liberty McArtor – stream.org –  November 30, 2017 The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The high-profile case deals with First Amendment rights and same-sex marriage. Defendants say the case will decide whether the government can compel speech that violates one’s conscience. Plaintiffs say it’s about whether businesses can discriminate. Backstory Phillips owns Masterpiece…

  BEAVER, PA, November 30, 2017—Almost six months after First Liberty Institute sent a letter to the Beaver Area School District (BASD) regarding the district’s religious censorship of high school senior Moriah Bridge’s graduation remarks, BASD has changed course. BASD has enacted a new policy explicitly stating the expressions of students and/or other private speakers at future graduation ceremonies “shall…

By: Kerby Anderson – probe.org – May 27, 2004 G.K. Chesterton once said that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.”{1} We are going to document the origins of this country by looking at a book entitled…

By: Jarrett Stepman – dailysignal.com – November 20, 2017 For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly nauseating…

By: Ed Klein – November 20, 2017 – Dailymail.com Edward Klein is the former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine and the author of numerous bestsellers including his fourth book on the Clintons, Guilty as Sin, in 2016. His latest book is All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump was released on October 30, 2017. Bill…

By: Marvin Olasky – November 17, 2017 – World Magazine The past two days have brought more Roy Moore accusers, but the big news is the new front in the sexual predator wars: Washington, with accusations against Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., that contain photographic evidence. This development shows how the current cultural moment can be a positive one for a Biblical…

Killing the ObamaCare tax will make it easier to restore insurer subsidies. The House is poised to pass tax reform on Thursday, while Senate Republicans have fortified their draft to include a repeal of ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The latter is being denounced as an attempt to deny Americans health insurance, but Republicans can rebut this falsehood and achieve two policy…

Killing the individual mandate can serve the cause of tax and health-care reform. Republicans in Congress are plowing ahead on tax reform, and one obstacle is the complexity of Senate budget rules that limit how much taxes can be cut. The good news is that for once Washington’s fiscal fictions could be deployed to improve policy by repealing ObamaCare’s individual…