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Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for. It took us nearly that long to locate and execute their leader, Osama bin Laden, and we are far from finished. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. A war is being waged against…

Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists. In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people…

Paul Manafort Admits ‘Conflict’ in Trump Campaign Paul Manafort, who usually plays it close to the vest when commenting on turmoil in Donald Trump’s campaign, has finally admitted there’s trouble in the ranks. The billionaire real-estate tycoon’s campaign manager told ABC’s “Good Morning America” “there’s a conflict within the Trump campaign” over the GOP presidential nominee’s refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul…

3 Reasons Why Hostility to Religion Harms Every American First Liberty Hostility to religion in America is escalating. This damages: Ordinary citizens who live normal lives according to their faith and conscience. The bedrock on which stand vital American institutions such as government, education, the military, business, houses of worship, and charity. Our other constitutional rights, including freedom of speech,…

Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward. Wooden pallets stacked…

Donald Trump Tuesday responded to President Barack Obama’s attacks by describing him as “a failed leader who along with Secretary of State Clinton created a foreign policy that has destabilized the world and made it an unsafe place.” “He is the one who is unfit to be president and Hillary Clinton is equally unfit,” Trump said in a statement issued…

Wayne Grudem is one of the most influential Christian leaders in the nation. Many of the lessons I taught as an intern in my local church’s youth ministry (shoutout Ingleside Baptist) were done only after copiously studying Grudem’s book, “Systematic Theology”. Grudem is a Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary and has helped equip countless pastors to…

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Disruptive. That’s a good word to describe Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and to describe the sometimes-ramshackle Republican National Convention his campaign more or less superintended in Cleveland. Apple disrupted the music industry; Uber disrupted the taxi cartels; Amazon disrupted the mega-bookstores. Global competition has been disrupting American manufacturing for decades. The inundation of low-skill immigrants unintentionally produced by the 1965…

WikiLeaks blows up the party’s hopes for a smooth convention week. Remember when political conventions were boring? Last week saw the GOP primary’s runner-up booed off the stage for refusing to endorse its winner. This week, the Democrats begin their convention with the resignation of their national committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, after nearly 20,000 of the committee’s e-mails were…