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  By: Kelly Shackelford and James C. Ho – thehill.com – September 1, 2017 The day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2015-2016 term, three justices issued a troubling statement. It was four months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and the Court had just fallen one vote short of taking a significant religious freedom case. In response, Justice…

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – August 31, 2017 Okay—well, if you want contrarianism, Salon and the Washington Post-affiliated Slate are your go-to places. Hurricane Harvey pummeled Texas’ gulf Coast with wind, rain, and flooding, which has left at least 18 dead. Around 11 trillion gallons of water was poured into the Houston area. Yet, the Louisiana-based Cajun Navy and…

by Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – August 31, 2017 The piece’s problems didn’t end with the title. ‘Houston,” declared a Slate headline, “Doesn’t Showcase ‘America at Its Best.’” When a tweet promoting the article from the site’s official account went viral, and not in a good way, the editors reconsidered the wisdom of trolling a suffering city, deleted the tweet,…

By: Jonah Goldberg – townhall.com – August 30, 2017 Even hurricanes have a silver lining: The downpour washes away a lot of bull. Don’t get me wrong. This is a tragedy for untold thousands of people. And no upside could possibly balance the scale against the downside. The full human toll of Harvey, now a tropical storm, remains to be…

By: William M. Briggs – stream.org – August 30, 2017 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is so upset that Senator Marco Rubio has been tweeting quotations from the Bible, they wrote him a hot letter about it. Professing themselves to be wise, the group became fools and say Senators quoting the Bible is a “constitutional violation.” We understand that you have been…

  by: David French – nationalreview.com – August 30, 2017 A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. Don’t ever forget that, for some folks, “separation of church and state” is a half-measure. It’s just a pit stop on the road to de-Christianizing America. It’s a temporary means to…

Claire Lopez, Center for Security Policy vice president for research and analysis spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday in reaction to President Trump’s Afghanistan announcement. Saying there were some elements of the speech she liked, while citing its lack of specifics, Lopez continued, “The former two presidencies in Afghanistan, their policy allowed the establishment and the enforcement…

Americans are increasingly becoming more isolated, and public health experts are concerned. In the United States, about a quarter of the population lives alone. Marriage rates and the number of kids per U.S. household are also dropping, according to census data. Now, research presented this month at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association underlines the connection between…

One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she…

You may have heard that a Google software engineer anonymously circulated a memo about “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” The tech blog Motherboard reports that the memo went viral within the company. In it, the engineer argues that Google has created a “politically correct monoculture” in which honest discussion of its hiring practices is impossible. The author avows several times that…