By: Alan S. Blinder – wsj.com – August 14, 201 In my book “Hard Heads, Soft Hearts” (1987), I bemoaned that it was difficult to be both a Democrat and an economist. Democrats, I wrote, often advocated economic policies that were well-intentioned but softheaded. Yes, ends matter, but so do means. Later, it became easy to be a Democrat and an...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – August 14, 2019 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are Nazis. They have concentration camps set up at the border. They should be abolished. That’s the narrative that Democrats, the liberal media, and their activist goons have been peddling for months and the results have turned violent. In Tacoma, Washington, an activist with the extreme...

By:  James Jay Carafano – Foxnews.com – August 14, 2019 Hong Kong International Airport has been crippled as protests continue over a Chinese extradition bill; Greg Palkot reports. The outside world can do little to assure the future of freedom in Hong Kong beyond making the case that preserving the principles of liberty are at stake. Nevertheless, the plight of...

By: David Jackson & John Fritze – usatoday.com – August 12, 2019 President Donald Trump’s administration issued a new rule Monday that would enable officials to deny green cards to migrants if they believe the recipients will receive public benefits like food stamps, Medicaid, or housing vouchers. The rule, in the works for months, is the administration’s latest effort to reduce legal immigration – despite Trump’s...

By: Samuel Smith – christianpost.com – July 3, 2019 Competing narratives on how immigrant children are being treated in border facilities continue to emerge as a group of evangelical pastors and Democrat members of Congress reflected Monday on what they saw during separate border visits. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, told reporters Monday that he is...

By: Elliot Spagat & Cedar Attanasio – apnews.com – July 16, 2019 Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of being turned away under a new Trump administration asylum rule that upends long-standing protections for people fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands. The policy went into effect Tuesday...

By: Aaron Blake – washingtonpost.com – July 1, 2019 President Trump has returned from a meeting with Kim Jong Un that briefly included an unprecedented venture on to North Korean soil for a sitting U.S. president. And what do we have to show for that historic concession and propaganda win for Kim? Not any official concession from the North Koreans. What we do have,...

By: Chris Cillizza – cnn.com – July 2, 2019 Ivanka Trump, traveling with her father in Asia, sought to play the role of a sort of shadow secretary of state. She attended a series of bilateral meetings between the US and foreign powers at the G20. She was part of the photo-op following the President’s 20 steps into North Korea with dictator...

By: Leo Hohmann – wnd.com – October 11, 2017 As she stood before the faithful at Skyline Church in San Diego, former U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann cut right to the chase. She described her new position as the church’s pastor to the United Nations in succinct terms. “We are taking this unbelievably audacious step of going to the U.N. I...

We must do all we can to fight against religious persecution. Ask President Trump to use the leverage of the billions we give in foreign aid to pressure governments around the world to put an end to the suffering of our Christian brothers and sisters.