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January 31, 2017
Is It a Muslim Ban?

President Trump’s temporary ban on entry into the U.S. by various categories of aliens has caused a firestorm. That owes in part to the rash implementation of perfectly legal restrictions, but the hysteria is out of proportion to the minimal harm actually done. One of the most dismaying parts of the debate has been the banter over whether Trump has…

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January 31, 2017
Executive Order on Refugees – Separating Fact from Hysteria

To read the online commentary, one would think that President Trump just fundamentally corrupted the American character. You would think that the executive order on refugees he signed yesterday betrayed America’s Founding ideals. You might even think he banned people from an entire faith from American shores. Just look at the rhetoric. Here’s Chuck Schumer: If you thought only Senator…

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January 30, 2017
This is What Post-Christian Dissent Looks Like

I’m beginning to get a sense of what it was like to be alive in ancient times when a marauding warlord melted down your village’s golden calf. Weeping. Gnashing of teeth. Rending of garments. Wearing of vagina hats. Their god failed to protect the village, and now he’s a bracelet on the warlord’s wrist. It’s pathetic, really, the emotional reaction…

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January 26, 2017
Planned Parenthood and Prenatal Care

When I first took my two aged, beloved beagles to the incompetent veterinarian, I didn’t make much of the fact that his practice adjoined an ethnic butcher shop. Once he’d muddled the diagnosis of both dogs, left one untreated for a kidney infection till he lost all bladder control, and tried to pressure me into a useless, dangerous surgery on…

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January 26, 2017
Memo to Media: It’s Not About You

On Saturday, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer created a media firestorm by fibbing about sizes of inauguration crowds. After calling a press conference to claim that Trump’s inauguration had the largest audience in history, both “in person and around the globe,” Spicer tore into the media for their supposed falsehoods; Spicer specifically referenced D.C. Metro figures, fencing and magnetometer placement,…

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January 25, 2017
Backlash to Story That Calls Fetal Heartbeats Imaginary

The Atlantic Called Fetal Heartbeats ‘Imaginary.’ Twitter Responded. The Washington, D.C.-based magazine is receiving backlash after publishing a story about ultrasounds Tuesday morning. The Atlantic is receiving backlash on Twitter after publishing a story about ultrasounds Tuesday morning. The story went up at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the title “How Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus is a Person.” The…

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January 25, 2017
Cities Reach Peak Millennial

The flow of young professionals into Philadelphia has flattened, according to JLL Research, while apartment rents have started to soften in a number of big cities because of a glut of new construction geared toward urban newcomers who haven’t arrived. Apartment rents in San Francisco, Washington, Denver, Miami and New York are moderating or even declining from a year ago,…

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January 24, 2017
Women’s March – Rebecca Hagelin

Source: Listen, ladies, and you will find hope – Washington Times Their anger was palpable, displayed ugly and raw on homemade signs in the Women’s March on Washington. Hatred spewed from their mouths and expressions, so potent that, at times, it seemed as if they might spontaneously combust. Many of these women lashed out from deep childhood wounds or past…

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January 24, 2017
School Choice and Public Education

Source: Embracing school choice doesn’t mean abandoning public education | Washington Examiner Betsy DeVos, President-elect Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of education, will begin her Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday evening. The nomination of DeVos, who supports school choice, has renewed the national discussion over the importance of opportunity in K-12 education. If you were to listen only to the national-level…

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January 23, 2017
How Does Health Care Sharing Really Work?

More than 68,000 Samaritan Ministries Households Share Health Care Needs While Also Offering Prayer and Encouragement in This Simple, Non-Insurance, Direct-Sharing Approach   PEORIA, Ill.—Later this month, uninsured Americans around the country—or those looking for a change in how to pay for expensive health care—will face the Jan. 31 Affordable Care Act deadline. Many questions will be part of that…

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January 23, 2017
Post Election Temper Tantrums

Source: Democrats’ Post-Election Temper-Tantrums Continue – Susan Stamper Brown King Solomon once wrote in Proverbs 19:13 the most annoying sound on the planet was a nagging wife, but obviously, he’d never heard what leftists sound like after they lose elections. Trump Derangement Syndrome will be around for years to come folks, so it might be wise to invest in a…

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