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By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – February 20, 2018 The good news is that the Republican tax reform passed in December will end the mandate to have government-approved health insurance coverage beginning in 2019. The bad news is that, unless Congress acts — or unless states decide to work around the law — individuals won’t have any good policies to…

  By: David French – nationalreview.com – February 21, 2018 Banning them would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. Arguments about guns tend to suffer from two distinct problems. The first — and most obvious — is they quickly get screechy. The arguments devolve into shouting matches and temper tantrums. The goal…

  By: Rhonda Stoppe – crosswalk.com As we mourn the loss of the beloved Rev. Billy Graham, we think about the great impact he made for the Gospel and the wonderful man he was: What comes to mind when you hear the name of this evangelistic legend? For me, it’s the memory of attending a Billy Graham Crusade held in…

  By: Rhonda Stoppe – crosswalk.com As we mourn the loss of the beloved Rev. Billy Graham, we think about the great impact he made for the Gospel and the wonderful man he was: What comes to mind when you hear the name of this evangelistic legend? For me, it’s the memory of attending a Billy Graham Crusade held in…

By: Emily Price – fortune.com – February 19, 2018 Millennials in their early 30s earn less than their counterparts in the preceding generation, according to a new study. Millennials on average make 4% less than people in Generation X did when they were the same age, according to the UK-based think tank Resolution Foundation, which analyzed earnings in eight high-income…

By: Tamara Qiblawi and Sarah Sirgany – cnn.com – February 21, 2018 At least 250 civilians have been killed in two days of relentless bombardment of Eastern Ghouta in Syria, activists say, prompting warnings that the regime of Bashar al-Assad is preparing to crush the rebel-held enclave. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 106 died on Tuesday, the…

By: Tamara Qiblawi and Sarah Sirgany – cnn.com – February 21, 2018 At least 250 civilians have been killed in two days of relentless bombardment of Eastern Ghouta in Syria, activists say, prompting warnings that the regime of Bashar al-Assad is preparing to crush the rebel-held enclave. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 106 died on Tuesday, the…

By: Michael D. Shear – nytimes.com – February 20, 2018 The president asked the Justice Department to propose regulations that would ban “bump stocks,” which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon. President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice…

By: Travis Weber – frcblog.com – February 13, 2018 The other day, Jimmy Kimmel responded to a California Court ruling affirming Christian baker Cathy Miller’s First Amendment right to not be compelled to create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. Here is a response to Jimmy Kimmel’s response, which I also presented on Facebook Live with our own Brynne Krispin…

By: John W. Whitehead – rutherford.org – June 26, 2017 “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, dissenting in Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966) The government has become an expert in finding…

By: John Kass – startribune.com – February 17, 2017 Whatever happened to liberal Democrats, with their concerns about civil liberties and government surveillance of American citizens? Liberals once hated the CIA. And they loved the Russians. You can look it up. Their liberal friends in Hollywood made movie after movie about the dangers of The Deep State and its awesome…