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By: Rishika Dugyala – texastribune.org – March 22, 2018 All of Harrold Independent School District is packed into a two-story red brick building that sits off U.S. Highway 287, nestled among windmills, a water tower and farmland. The district serves kids from a 200-square-mile area in Wilbarger County near the Texas-Oklahoma border. Everyone knows everyone in this rural district with…

By: Samuel Rodriguez & James Robison – stream.org – September 6, 2017 For four years, we’ve worked on the immigration problem together. Here is what we propose. We don’t offer this as the perfect solution. But we do seek diligently to encourage the President, his Administration and Congress to come together at the table of reason and hammer out a…

By: Alex Chediak – stream.org – June 9, 2018 Americans are becoming more permissive on moral issues like smoking pot, same sex relations, divorce, pornography, even polygamy. That’s according to Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, which was conducted May 1-10 and released this week. The trends are the interesting part. Smoking Pot In 2018, support for smoking pot was…

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – June 10, 2018 Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Goldberg argues that Fox News is “a danger to this country,” as the headline put it. Goldberg is the editorial-page editor of the paper, and he offers the familiar lament: “We live in an era in which Americans are being encouraged to disregard…

By: David Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 5, 2018 Something funny happens when you actually take time to analyze a gravely transformative piece of legislation. It’s something that not a single member of the House who voted for the aptly named First Step Act got a chance to do: You understand the consequences of the bill. Proponents of the bill,…

By: Paul Mirengoff – powerlineblog.com – June 7, 2018 Earlier this week, Majority Leader McConnell cancelled most of the Senate’s August recess. He did so in response to the unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats in blocking floor votes on President Trump’s nominees. The cancellation hurts Democrats, and not just because it’s a blow against their obstruction. There are more vulnerable…

By: Guy Benson – townhill.com – June 7, 2018 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the upper chamber’s traditional August break would be severely limited this year. Democrats have lashed out at the decision, accusing McConnell of playing partisan hardball in an election year. They say he’s scheming to keep them in session, rather than back home (and…

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – June 6, 2018 Both Mexico and the European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products as President Donald Trump prepares for potentially confrontational talks with allies at the Group of Seven summit. The G-7 gathering will take place Friday and Saturday in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. Trump has pushed 25 percent tariffs on…

Mexico and the European Union have retaliated against the U.S. for the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Source: 4 Key Points in Tariffs Debate as Trump Heads to G-7 Summit

By: Jeremiah Poff – dailysignal.com – June 06, 2018 A major conservative-libertarian advocacy group has thrown its support behind President Donald Trump’s call for canceling more than $15 billion in spending as a good first step in reining in the federal budget. Americans for Prosperity praises the president’s rescission request, which would claw back up to $15.3 billion in appropriated…

By: Chad Pergram – foxnews.com – June 6, 2018 A coalition of some Republicans and nearly all Democrats is attempting to go around House GOP leaders and force a debate later this month on a series of immigration bills against the wishes of GOP leaders. How do they do it? The mechanism is called a “discharge petition.” A discharge petition…