By: Beth Baumann – townhall.com – June 21, 2020 The Black Lives Matter movement has gained steam recently following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. Protests and riots have taken place across the country, all in the name of so-called “justice” for Floyd. BLM organizers have repeatedly said their goal is to end “police brutality” and “systemic racism” that disproportionately...

By: James Wesolek – txvalues.org  –  June 19, 2020 Reaction to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v Clayton County Georgia has been swift and resounding from all corners of the pro-family, conservative sphere. The egregious ruling redefined the meaning of “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” The implications of this for...

By: Mike Pence – WSJ.com – June 16, 2020 In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months...

By: Caitlin Oprysko – politico.com = June 16, 2020 Although he was ostensibly in the Rose Garden to discuss police reform, Trump delivered an emphatic defense of law enforcement as a whole, rejecting complaints of systemic racism in policing and contending that only a “very tiny” percentage of police are so-called bad apples. The text of the executive order itself...

By: Sen. Josh Hawley – thepublicdiscourse.com – June 16, 2020 I rise today to offer a few thoughts about the Bostock case handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. I have it here. I have now had the chance to read the case, the decision by the majority of the court, and the two dissenting opinions, and I have to say I...

By: Daniel Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 15, 2020 Within 35 minutes today at 10 a.m. Eastern, what some thought was the most conservative Supreme Court of all time concocted a fundamental right to transgenderism in the context of labor law, erased the Second Amendment, and interfered with a state death penalty case, but declined to interfere with a California law that criminalizes law...

By: Aila Slisco – Newsweek.com – June 16, 2020 Increasing numbers of Houston residents have reportedly been diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending protests against the death of George Floyd. Large protests began in the city days after the death of Houston native Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. Texas has...

By: Debbie Wuthnow – townhall.com – May 31, 2020 COVID-19 has dominated every aspect of our lives, and in fact, it’s even revealing why the upcoming elections matter. At iVoterGuide, we hope these six reasons will encourage you in your passion for our country’s government. Reason #1: COVID-19 reminds us that elected officials can make life and death decisions. In America, “we the...

By: Frank Gaffney – presentdangerchina.org – July 19, 2019 On July 3rd, the Washington Post published an Open Letter under the headline “China is Not an Enemy”.  It sharply criticized President Trump’s robust approach to the strategic challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party and recommended a return to the policy of “engagement” practiced by previous U.S. administrations and with which many of the...

By: Chris Marquette – rollcall.com – June 10, 2020 Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for the removal of 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Pelosi asked the Joint Committee on the Library — led by Senate Rules and Administration Chairman Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, and House Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, a...