By: Scott Morefield – townhall.com – December 3, 2018 In 2016, California took yet another significant step in its decades-long quest to become the world’s largest banana republic when then-Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1921, a then-barely-noticed revision to the state’s vote-by-mail procedures. The change was a small but significant one. California, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make the...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – December 03, 2018 Before we delve into her new “argument,” I’d like to make a point about why the conservative commentariat sometimes seems fixated on Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. First, she entered the national spotlight as a media fascination and darling — a young woman of color who shook up the Democratic Party from the...

By: Peter Allen & Tim Stickings – dailymail.co.uk – December 2, 2018 Violent protesters took over the Champs-Elysees and torched cars, smashed windows and attacked police Emmanuel Macron visited the Arc de Triomphe today as soon as he returned from the G20 in Buenos Aires The protests began as a rebellion against fuel prices but have grown into weeks of...

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – December 1, 2018 At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics was always prosaic, acquired, by way of a grandfather, the name of a British poet and priest (George Herbert, 1593–1633). He acquired much else from family inheritance. The future 41st president was descended from a...

By: Thomas Lifson – americanthinker.com – November 30, 2018 Drag queen admits ‘grooming’ children at public library events that are part of worldwide program which was banned and then restored (for now) by Twitter – has broken the news that a drag queen has admitted to grooming children to accept transgenderism and the other elements of the alt.sex agenda through...

By: Tony Perkins & FRC Senior Writers – frc.org – November 27, 2018 The mainstream media may not understand evangelicals, but they’re no mystery to Alan Cooperman. The director of religion research at Pew has been studying their voting patterns for years, and he’s got news for the press: they’ve got it all wrong. In a special event at Miami...

By: Emily Holden – theguardian.com – November 29, 2018 A Trump cabinet member is striking a tone at odds with the president’s calls to meet immigrants at the Mexico border with force and demands that Congress fund a border wall. Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development and Trump’s only black cabinet appointee, delivered a speech to conservative...

By: John Yoo & James C. Phillips – nationalreview.com – November 29, 2018 In the wake of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, religion will probably present the first test of the new Roberts Court’s commitment to the original meaning of the Bill of Rights. Religion has not become a constitutional battlefield just because conservatives tend...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – November 28, 2018 Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MI) won her runoff election last night over Democrat Mike Espy in Mississippi, so Republicans have a solid 53-47 majority. No longer will we have to deal with the Murkowski-Collins question when it come sot tight votes of judicial and Supreme Court nominations. We can run the table...

By: American Bible Society – news.americanbible.org – October 30, 2018 As the mid-term elections approach, a few often-overlooked biblical characteristics may carry more weight among voters than politicians realize. The State of the Bible, a recent survey from American Bible Society, found that an overwhelming 90 percent of Americans believe elected officials should display peace, kindness, gentleness and self-control. These...