By: Erin Humiston – thehill.com – October 14, 2019 Nothing says pulling out all the stops for socialized health care than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) using his heart attack scare to push the idea. “None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us,” he tweeted. “And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for All!” Meanwhile, Sen....

By: Kelly Shackelford – foxnews.com – October 6, 2019 During its past two terms, the Supreme Court issued a number of notable decisions that appear to have begun the process of restoring the Constitution’s promise of religious free exercise. At the end of its last term, for example, the court upheld the Bladensburg WWI Memorial, setting aside precedent that has been...

By: Attorney General William P. Barr – justice.gov – October 11, 2019 Remarks as prepared for delivery Thank you, Tom, for your kind introduction. Bill and Roger, it’s great to be with you. Thank you to the Notre Dame Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture for graciously extending an invitation to address you today. I’d also like...

By: Mary Anne Pazanowski – news.bloomberglaw.com – october 15, 2019 Christian health care professionals don’t have to perform transgender-related care that is contrary to their religious beliefs, a federal district court in Texas said, invalidating an Obamacare anti-discrimination rule. The so-called “transgender mandate” implementing the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination provision violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the...

By: Ann Coulter – townhall.com – October 16, 2019 With all the rancor in politics these days, the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate on Tuesday night delivered a rare moment of comity: Twelve Democrats agreed, apparently without compensation, to appear in a Donald Trump ad. Other points on which the Democrats came together in peace and harmony: — Trump should...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2019 Imagine one vast airport that you cannot leave. With apologies to Margaret Atwood and a thousand other dystopian novelists, we do not have to theorize about what an American police state would look like, because we know what it looks like: the airport, that familiar totalitarian environment where Americans are disarmed, stripped of...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2019  “Yes, we do have freedom of speech, it can be a lot of negative that comes with it.” — LeBron James. LeBron James announced that, like everyone else in the NBA, he finds the imprisonment of one to two million Uighurs in concentration camps and increasingly violent crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong simply too complicated...

By: Jeanine Santucci – usatoday.com – October 14, 2019 The White House says President Donald Trump hasn’t seen the violent video edited to depict him carrying out a massacre of news organizations and political opponents, but he does condemn the contents being reported. The statement comes as questions about the video and its use continue to swirl and as the people “killed” in...

By: Leonardo Blair – christianpost.com – October 11, 2019 Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that churches, charities and other religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax exempt status. And if he becomes president, this is a policy that he will seek to quickly enforce by executive action, according to the LGBTQ plan on...

By: Amie Parnes – thehill.com – October 13, 2019 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is the candidate with the most momentum as the Democratic presidential field heads into a critical debate on Tuesday. Warren has surged in front of former Vice President Joe Biden in recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and in some national polls. She also is seeing some encouraging...