By: Vijay Jayaraj –townhall.com – September 03, 2019 As I write at 11 a.m. Eastern Time Monday, Hurricane Dorian, with sustained winds of 155 mph—barely below Category 5—is pounding the Bahamas and moving very slowly westward, forecast to turn north later today. After crawling slowly up the Florida and Georgia coasts Tuesday through Wednesday, Dorian is forecast to turn northeast Thursday morning...

By: John Bacon & Janine Zeitlin – USAToday.com – September 3, 2019 Hurricane Dorian diminished to Category 2 storm status Tuesday as it slowly turned to the northwest, still a historic and violent storm mercilessly pummeling the Bahamas as the U.S. East Coast anxiously awaited its approach. The latest forecasts put the hurricane farther off Florida’s east coast than previous projections. “We still have...

By: Donna Zuckerberg – washingtonpost.com – August 29, 2019 Anyone who regularly expresses ideas on the Internet — especially women who express ideas critical of men — has encountered that bane of online discourse, the man who appears seemingly out of nowhere to insist on a debate. He disagrees with the sentiment expressed and is certain he can overpower the author with...

By: Matt Mackowiak – washingtontimes.com – Wednesday, August 28, 2019 The power of incumbency has never been greater in modern American politics. This is especially true for the president of the United States. The last three incumbent presidents were reelected, and four of the last five were. Head-to-head polls right now show many of the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates leading President Trump...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2019 If recirculating tweets of employees of liberal news outlets is undemocratic, why isn’t similar activity by left-wing groups also dangerously authoritarian? The New York Times, an organization devoted to gathering and publishing information, doesn’t want people to gather or publish information inconvenient to it. A group of Trump-supporting operatives has been finding and archiving...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 18, 2019 Supreme Court precedent travels fast. Less than two months ago the Justices ruled 7-2 that a 40-foot stone war memorial, the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Md., could stay standing on public ground, despite its religious symbolism. Now a federal appeals court has applied that logic to save a 75-year-old county seal....

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – August 20, 2019 “The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year,” The New York Times Magazine editors declare. “Doing so requires us to place...

By: RACHEL ALEXANDER – stream.org – August 16, 2019 Google employees are starting to come forward to expose shenanigans at the company, particularly bias against conservatives. One is Google engineer Greg Coppola, who was put on administrative leave after he went public in an interview with Project Veritas last month. He started at Google in 2014 and says no one talked politics back...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 15, 2019 By excusing the lies Senators Warren and Harris told about Michael Brown’s death, the fact-checking site abandoned its mission. In theory, fact-checking is a valuable media enterprise. No one will do it perfectly — human beings are fallible, after all — but to do it well requires a kind of flinty moral...

By: Monica Anderson & Dennis Quinn – pewresearch.org – August 8, 2019 Well over a year before the 2020 presidential election, many social media users in the United States are already exhausted by how much political content they see on these platforms. Some 46% of adult social media users say they feel “worn out” by the number of political posts and discussions they...