By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 17, 2018 President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, frequently referred to as the Court’s “swing vote”—i.e., a justice who occasionally crosses party and ideological lines to vote with the other side. Since no one seems...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 18, 2019 It’s not exactly breaking news when AOC says something indefensible, but she outdid herself in an Instagram video last night by calling U.S. immigration facilities at the border “concentration camps”: Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra Her defense was that “concentration camps” is a simply a term for facilities holding masses of people without trial....

By Sandy Fitzgerald – newsmax.com – June 6, 2019 Members of the liberal media had high praises for President Donald Trump’s words at the 75th commemoration of D-Day celebration in Normandy, including MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough calling it the “strongest speech of his presidency” and CNN’s Jim Acosta lauding it as his most “on-message moment.” “There was one...

By: The Stream –  stream.org –  June 6, 2019 75 years ago today, Allied troops embarked on one of the most significant endeavors in human history: D-Day. These images recount that unforgettable day. Preparing for the Big Assault The official plan for D-Day was to deploy every available resource in an all-out assault on the Nazi-held coast of Normandy, France. So there...

By: Matt Vespa- townhall.com – May21, 2019 Okay, so we all know the hammer the judiciary dropped on the Trump administration last night, right? A federal judge sided with House Democrats over their subpoenas over President Trump’s tax returns. Democrats want six years worth of returns, including those from the president’s businesses. The subpoenas targeted an accounting firm and to...

By: Nathan Rott – npr.org – May 6, 2019 Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity’s burgeoning growth is putting the world’s biodiversity at perilous risk. Some of the...

By: Frank Miles – foxnews.com – May 6, 2019 U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has made headlines on some controversial topics. Here is everything you need to know about her journey from being born in Somalia to becoming a U.S. Representative. Republicans were harsh to condemn freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who tweeted Sunday night about this weekend’s violence in Israel, the worst...

By: Paul Kengor – spectator.org – April 3, 2019 Last week I did one of my routine exercises in my Marxism course at Grove City College. In that class, we scour everything on Marx and various strains and offshoots of Marxism. We read all sides — true liberal learning, real diversity, genuine academic pursuit of truth. At this conservative college, we...

By: The New York Times – nytimes.com – April 16, 2019 With the flames extinguished, the smoke clear and a new sun risen over Paris, the French got a heartening confirmation on Tuesday: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame still stands. It is scorched, battered and missing its spire and much of its roof, but the 800-year-old Gothic masterwork that symbolized both a place...

By: Douglas Groothuis – allaboutjazz.com – January 22, 2015 All About Jazz readers are usually very hip to the joys and challenges of listening to this uniquely American and endlessly fascinating art form we call jazz. Aficionados of jazz like to talk about jazz, like to recommend jazz to others, and like to listen to how others listen to jazz. This is why...