By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 16, 2018 Let’s begin with two assertions that should, at least, be relatively uncontroversial. First, Article II of the United States Constitution grants the president broad authority to defend the nation as commander in chief of its armed forces. Second, that authority is not so broad as to always override individual constitutional rights...

By: Mike Lillis – thehill.com – August 16, 2018 Nancy Pelosi is facing a new problem: an erosion of support from progressives who have long flocked to her side. Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan Democrat all but certain to become one of the first Muslim women to win election to Congress, suggested last week that she’ll oppose the California liberal’s bid...

By: Jeremy Dys – townhall.com – August 6, 2018 Attorney General Sessions recently announced the formation of a special Department of Justice Task Force with these words: “Freedom of religion has been a core American principle from the very beginning of our country—indeed, it is our ‘first freedom.’” His announcement of a Religious Liberty Task Force to “institutionalize” the process...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 15, 2018 Even after a 7–2 Supreme Court decision protecting Colorado custom baker Jack Phillips from overt religious discrimination, the state is doubling down. It’s participating in and empowering a grotesque campaign of discrimination and harassment that should shock the conscience of sensible Americans. Phillips, you’ll recall, is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop,...

By: Joseph Spector & Jon Campbell – lohud.com – August 15, 2018 Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave an impassioned speech Wednesday by knocking President Donald Trump over his comments and policies toward women. Then Cuomo was stung by his own comments as he derided Trump when he said, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”...

By: Kevin McCullough – townhall.com – August 12, 2018 It was merely a comment, a reply, not even a full throated post on Twitter. Shannon Bream of FoxNews’ ratings’ dominant prime time line-up had linked a post about a headline of an election related story in Ohio. @ShannonBream: “Well, that’s an interesting headline: 170 Voters in Ohio Race ‘Over 116...

By: David French – stream.org – August 10, 2018 Imagine this news report. National media exploded today with wall-to-wall coverage of the latest fringe right-wing threat to peace and public order. A sheriff raided a New Mexico compound. It was controlled by 41-year-old Roy Austin Graham. He is the son of Franklin and grandson of Billy Graham, both famous Christian...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 31, 2018 The Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a study by the Center’s Charles Blahous estimating the cost of a government-run, single-payer health care system similar to Senator Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act (M4A). Under single-payer, Americans drop their private insurance coverage, pay higher taxes and the government pays...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 9, 2018 On Monday — the day Facebook, Apple, and YouTube purged Alex Jones — Twitter’s Jack Dorsey made a lonely stand. In a series of tweets, Dorsey explained that Jones hadn’t violated Twitter’s rules, that Twitter intends to resist outside pressure and act “impartially regardless of political viewpoints,” and that it was...

By: Heather Mac Donald – nationalreview.com – August 8, 2018 The most significant feature of Sarah Jeong, the New York Times’ embattled new editorial board member, is not that she is a “racist,” as her critics put it. It is that she is an entirely typical product of the contemporary academy. After the New York Times announced Jeong’s hire in...