By: Star Parker – townhall.com – December 5, 2018 Amid this holiday season of reflection, I’m thinking about America’s future. A new poll from Gallup serves up some sobering data regarding how young Americans feel about their country. Gallup asked the question, “Do you think the U.S. has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world,...

By: Josh Hafner – usatoday.com – December 4, 2018 Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has saluted President George H.W. Bush at the casket of the late president. Like Bush, Dole is a World War II veteran. (Dec. 4) AP Bob Dole saluted a fellow World War II veteran Tuesday under the Capitol dome as he rose to honor George...

By: Jonathon Van Maren – lifesitenews.com – November 19, 2018 Over the past decade, attacks on Canada’s Christian communities by LGBT activists have escalated significantly. In Alberta, Education Minister David Eggen is threatening to defund and possibly shut down religious schools that do not accept Gay-Straight alliance clubs. Canada’s Supreme Court recently ruled against Trinity Western University, a private Christian...

By: Tony Perkins & FRC Senior Writers – frc.org – November 27, 2018 The mainstream media may not understand evangelicals, but they’re no mystery to Alan Cooperman. The director of religion research at Pew has been studying their voting patterns for years, and he’s got news for the press: they’ve got it all wrong. In a special event at Miami...

By: John Yoo & James C. Phillips – nationalreview.com – November 29, 2018 In the wake of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, religion will probably present the first test of the new Roberts Court’s commitment to the original meaning of the Bill of Rights. Religion has not become a constitutional battlefield just because conservatives tend...

By: Arthur C. Brooks – nytimes.com – November 23, 2018 America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness. According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and a lack of significance in their relationships. Nearly half say they sometimes or always feel alone or “left out.” Thirteen percent of...

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – November 13, 2018 A 20-year-old student senator at the University of California Berkeley says she didn’t expect the intense opposition she received for voicing her Christian beliefs on sexual identity and gender. Although Isabella Chow, a junior, has the support of the school’s College Republicans chapter, her own student party cut ties with...

By: Jarrett Stepman – dailysignal.com – October 26, 2018 It wasn’t long ago that both sides of the aisle believed America’s border laws should be enforced. As President Donald Trump pointed out on Twitter, even former President Barack Obama, at least rhetorically, said that illegal immigrants couldn’t be let into the country en masse and without restrictions. (He said that...

By: Rebecca Friedrichs – nydailynews.com – January 8, 2016 When you’re an elementary school teacher like me, you happily tackle a number of unpleasant job requirements: cleaning up from finger-painting, wiping runny noses and removing the occasional piece of gum from a student’s hair. But there’s one requirement I’m not happy about: paying dues — about $1,000 a year for full-time...

By: Jeremy Dys – wsj.com – October 11, 2018 Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. By Jeremy Dys As a lowly corporal, Milton Edward Hartman’s death shouldn’t have drawn much attention. But on a summer day in 1919, it seemed as if half the town of...