By: Jon Decker & Phil Kerpen – washingtontimes.com – December 3, 2019 The AARP recently hosted a forum that included Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar ostensibly to discuss proposals to lower health care costs. The irony was unmissable. AARP — which until the 1990s was an acronym but now, appropriately, stands for nothing — is crusading for a Nancy...

By: John Stonestreet – breakpoint.org – November 19, 2019 lthough the announcement didn’t mention which groups would no longer be funded, most media outlets covering the Chick-Fil-A Foundation’s press release on Monday did: “Chick-Fil-A to stop donating to some groups following LGBTQ protests,” read the USA Today headline. “Chick-Fil-A will no longer fund anti-LGBTQ organizations,” said ABCNews. “Chick-Fil-A to stop...

By: Staff – afa.net – November 19, 2019 Chick-fil-A was founded on Christian principles. I heard that from the founder of Chick-fil-A himself, Truett Cathy, when I heard him speak at a prayer breakfast in Tupelo, Mississippi, 20 years ago. Mr. Cathy passed away in 2014. I was so impressed with Mr. Cathy’s public expression of faith and his devotion...

By: Ryan Saavedra – dailywire.com – November 19, 2019 The Salvation Army responded on Monday to reports that Chick-fil-A was cutting ties with the Christian organization over its support for traditional marriage by noting that it is the largest social services provider in the world and that it serves millions of members of the LGBT community. “We’re saddened to learn that...

By: Diego Mendoza-Moyers – expressnews.com – Nov. 8, 2019 Texas had the fastest-growing economy among U.S. states in the second quarter of this year, according to data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The state’s gross domestic product — the value of all goods and services produced over a period of time — grew by 4.7 percent in the quarter. That’s well above...

By Karl Rove – WSJ.com – October 23, 2019 Turning Texas blue has become the Democrats’ Holy Grail—and the media is eager to see them quest after it. “Is Texas finally turning blue?” asked the Washington Post. The New York Times answered by explaining “why Texas is nearing battleground status.” Politico says it’s already done: “Texas Republicans brace for 2020...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2019  “Yes, we do have freedom of speech, it can be a lot of negative that comes with it.” — LeBron James. LeBron James announced that, like everyone else in the NBA, he finds the imprisonment of one to two million Uighurs in concentration camps and increasingly violent crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong simply too complicated...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – October 15, 2019 Dear Mr. Brin: Fifty years ago this week, when I was a 21-year-old college senior, I was in the Soviet Union, sent by the government of Israel to smuggle in Jewish religious items and smuggle out names of Jews who wanted to escape the Soviet Union and could then be issued...

By: Ben Shapiro – dailysignal.com – October 10, 2019 In recent years, the NBA has become famously political. During the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NBA permitted players to wear slogan-printed T-shirts in support, and stars like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul spoke out loudly on the issue. The Sacramento Kings actually announced a partnership with the...

By: Shane Harris, Erin Cunningham & Kareem Fahim – washingtonpost.com – September 17, 2019 President Trump on Monday stopped short of directly blaming Iran for a major attack on Saudi Arabian oil installations, allaying, at least for the moment, fears of a military conflict between the United States and Iran. Officials in Washington and Riyadh spent the day analyzing satellite photos and other intelligence that they...