By: Rod Boshart – thegazette.com – February 13, 2020 Individuals and businesses in Iowa would be granted broader legal protection to take actions guided by their religious beliefs under a bill approved Thursday by a Senate subcommittee. The bill was advanced to the full Senate Local Government Committee for consideration on a 2-1 vote, despite concerns voiced by businesses struggling to attract...

By: Helen Roxburgh & Laurent Thomet – news.yahoo.com – February 13, 2020 China’s official death toll from the new coronavirus spiked dramatically on Thursday after authorities changed their counting methods, fuelling concern the epidemic is far worse than being reported. As the figures soared in China, a troubling new front opened abroad as neighbouring Vietnam placed 10,000 people under quarantine after six...

By: Ben Shapiro – townhall.com – February 12, 2020 In 1966, there were 654 murders in New York City. The next year, that number increased by about a hundred. Then two hundred. By the mid-1970s, nearly 1,700 people were being murdered every year in New York City. That insane level of violence maintained until the early 1990s. Then, in 1994,...

By: Leah Barkoukis – townhall.com – February 12, 2020 The most significant aspect of President Trump’s win in New Hampshire’s Republican primary is voter enthusiasm—a good sign for his chances of winning re-election, his campaign manager Brad Parscale said. “In NH primary tonight, @realDonaldTrump is very likely to beat the vote percentages of the last 3 incumbent presidents who WON re-election,”...

By: Jack Fowler – nationalreview.com – February 12, 2020 In the face of last night’s news, we make this timely and surely compelling case for your assistance in helping National Review combat socialism, the virulent virus that seems about to emerge as a political pandemic in this election year. But first . . . We share Ludwig Von Mises’s encouraging...

By: Steve Peoples, Kathleen Ronayne, and Dunter Woodall –  apnews.com – February 11, 2020 Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s presidential primary, edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic Party’s chaotic 2020 nomination fight. In his Tuesday night win, the 78-year-old Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, beat back a strong challenge from the 38-year-old...

By: Sister Toldjah – redstate.com – February 10, 2020 A lot of articles I’ve read over the last year or so since the 2020 presidential race kicked into high gear scoffed at the idea that President Trump would try to appeal to black voters. The general consensus from those pieces and the political pundits who offered commentary on the idea at the...

By: Jason Hopkins – dailycaller.com – February 10, 2020 After a New York Times op-ed writer said President Donald Trump’s stories about immigrant crime were “bogus,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security provided him with examples. David Brooks, an opinion writer for The New York Times, appeared on PBS NewsHour on Feb. 7 to discuss a slate of political...

By: Chris Kahn – reuters.com – February 10, 2020 Support for Joe Biden’s U.S. Democratic presidential bid has tumbled nationally to the lowest on record since his lackluster finish in the Iowa caucuses, while interest is surging in the upstart candidacy of billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. The opinion poll taken from...

By: Nicole Sganga – cbsnews.com – February 11, 2020 A week after Iowa’s caucus debacle, the nation casts its first votes of the 2020 primary cycle Tuesday in New Hampshire. After months of shopping for the right candidate at town halls and house parties, voters here will weigh in on the crowded Democratic field. New Hampshire is celebrating 100 years of holding the “first in...