By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – July 31, 2018 Globalism, the tech boom, illegal immigration, campus radicalism, the new racialism . . . Are they leading us toward an 1861? How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war? Almost every cultural and social institution — universities, the public schools,...

By: Gary Bauer – ouramericanvalues.com – October 1, 2018 President Donald Trump has delivered on another major campaign promise. He successfully renegotiated the Clinton-era NAFTA agreement. Trump repeatedly said he wanted a better deal for America, and everyone repeatedly said it couldn’t be done. But Trump negotiated one deal with Mexico and conducted another set of negotiations with Canada, which...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – August 23, 2018 If you’ve ever wondered how Russia became America’s most fearsome enemy, long after that country gave up Communism, gulags, forced starvations and mass murder (all of which liberals were cool with), the answer is: This crackpot idea came from the same woman who blamed a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for Monica Lewinsky....

By: Paul Kengor – spectator.org – July 18, 2018 Senator John McCain described the Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” “No prior president,” insisted McCain, “has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.” Easy there, senator. Your knowledge of meetings between American presidents and Moscow tyrants is...

By: Paul Kengor – spectator.org – July 6, 2018 Presidents Trump and Putin have announced the site for their first summit meeting: Helsinki. It’s a dubious choice, a place of bad history between American statesmen and Russian thugs. Hopefully it’s not a bad omen for Donald Trump. If Trump wants to nix perceptions that he’s soft on the Kremlin and...

By: Nicholas Fandos & Kevin Roose – nytimes.com – July 31, 2018 Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt the midterm elections, with the company detecting and removing 32 pages and fake accounts that had engaged in activity around divisive social issues. The company did not definitively link the...

By: JTA – timesofisrael.com – June 1, 2018 US President Donald Trump named Gary Bauer, the Washington director of Christians United for Israel, to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. “We have seen a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Middle East,” Bauer, a veteran of top Education Department posts...

By: Masood Farivar – voanews.com – July 26, 2018 This week the Trump administration is hosting an international summit in Washington aimed at advancing religious freedom around the world. Government representatives say the event showcases the link among freedom of worship, human rights and economic prosperity. “America stands for religious freedom not only because it is the morally right thing...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – July 26, 2018 President Donald Trump declared victory for American farmers Thursday after brokering a ceasefire in a trade dispute with the European Union, but it is unclear how soon it will bring relief to those hurt by tit-for-tat tariffs. The White House painted the agreement as a vindication of the US president’s bare-knuckle tactics,...

By: Megan Cassella – Politico.com – July 20, 2018 President Donald Trump’s trade wars could become a major political drag for Republicans, with job losses and price increases piling up just as voters head to the polls in November. Trump jolted markets once again early Friday when he said he’s prepared to impose penalties on some $500 billion in Chinese...