By: Mike Strobbe (& Federica Narancio) – stream.org – November 29, 2018 Suicides and drug overdoses pushed up U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live. Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and...

By Richard Schiffman – nytimes.com – November 20, 2018 Thanksgiving is America’s yearly celebration of family togetherness. But with partisan divisions at a boiling point after the polarizing midterm election and a punishing political year, many are bracing themselves for a war of words at the dinner table this Thursday. For the past two decades, Peter Coleman, the director of...

By: Focus Features – Released November 2, 2018 Focus Features presents writer/director/producer Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased. The film is based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley and stars Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges and Joel Edgerton. Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 2, 2018 Synopsis: The health insurance system has failed America. Most of the blame lies with state and especially federal government intervention. Lawmakers have increasingly abandoned long-standing actuarial principles, culminating in the Affordable Care Act. The result is insurers are increasingly covering small and routine health expenditures and exposing patients to very expensive...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 2, 2018 Synopsis: The health insurance system has failed America. Most of the blame lies with state and especially federal government intervention. Lawmakers have increasingly abandoned long-standing actuarial principles, culminating in the Affordable Care Act. The result is insurers are increasingly covering small and routine health expenditures and exposing patients to very expensive...

By: David Closson – nationalreview.com – October 22, 2018 At a recent campaign rally in Texas, Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Ted Cruz for a seat in the United States Senate, remarkably claimed that “in this state, with 30,000 kids in the foster care system . . . they say that under the guise of religious liberty that you...

By: Rebecca Hagelin – townhall.com – October 25, 2018 For only a few hours each month, she gets to be a mom. It’s one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen: A little girl rushes through the security entrance under the glaring watch of prison guards and runs into the arms of her mother. Both are awash in tears....

By: CHQ Staff – conservativehq.com – October 17, 2018 As Soros-funded “ministers” are on buses through swing states to “flip Congress,” our friends with the American Association of Evangelicals (AAE) have just put out a 3-minute video, Soros’s “Rented Evangelicals.”* It provides a lot of info in a short time and is reaching many thousands of people each day through...

By: CHQ Staff – conservativehq.com – October 17, 2018 As Soros-funded “ministers” are on buses through swing states to “flip Congress,” our friends with the American Association of Evangelicals (AAE) have just put out a 3-minute video, Soros’s “Rented Evangelicals.”* It provides a lot of info in a short time and is reaching many thousands of people each day through...

By: Chuck Bentley – crown.org – September 7, 2018 Dear Chuck, My husband and I are just got married and are realizing the severity of our debt problems. We both just graduated with student loans, car loans, and some credit card debt. Until this point, we honestly didn’t know we should have been spending our money any differently. It was...