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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…

A landmark bill allowing for the prosecution of climate change dissent effectively died Thursday after the California Senate failed to take it up before the deadline. Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016, would have authorized prosecutors to sue fossil fuel companies, think tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public…

The GOP nominee proposes himself as the sole solution to the nation’s ills. That’s the opposite of conservative. In the battle over the role of government in American life, it’s clear that the Left is winning decisively. The era of small government is over. As Donald Trump’s convention speech made clear, the election of 2016 is a race between an…

The two most breathtaking moments of Governor Mike Pence’s appearance at the Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday night bookended his speech. The first was the instantaneously historic speech by Senator Ted Cruz, who pointedly refused to endorse the Republican nominee while not-so-tacitly using the words of the Never Trump movement in urging Republicans to “vote their conscience.” The second was…