By: Dr. Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – January 28, 2020 You know those “greedy” drug manufacturers you’ve been hearing so much about lately? They’re pouring time, money and resources into finding a vaccine for the coronavirus. Yes, the company or companies that successfully develop a vaccine will likely profit from the effort. Indeed, as we write the stock prices of three...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – January 10, 2020 Nine years ago I published a piece that asserted, “Voters around the country are concluding it’s better to be red than dead,” applying almost the exact opposite meaning to an old phrase referring to communism. New Census Bureau figures appear to confirm my prediction — mostly. My point was that many...

By: Tobias Hoonhout – nationalreview.com – January 29, 2020 Attorney General William Barr warned New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan of “an organized, militant secular effort” to suppress religion in “the marketplace of ideas” in an interview Wednesday. “The problem today is not that religious people are trying to impose their views on non-religious people,” Barr told Dolan on his SiriusXM radio...

By: Will Weissert – apnews.com – January 29, 2020 Most presidential candidates try to manage expectations in the final stretch of a campaign knowing a surprise win is always better than an expected one. Not Bernie Sanders. Ever the insurgent, Sanders is spending his final days on the trail in Iowa predicting a win here and beyond. He has boasted of...

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – January 29, 2020 While many Americans were focused on Washington this week, I was paying special attention to Fort Bend County, Texas. What took place in that Houston suburb may reveal more about the 2020 election than the impeachment trial in the Senate does. Fort Bend held a special runoff election to fill a...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – January 28, 2020 A superb documentary delivers a measure of justice to an extraordinary justice. Among the most prominent figures in American politics, perhaps none is as poorly understood as Justice Clarence Thomas. Watching him tell his riveting story at length on camera for the first time, it becomes evident that the man has...

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – January 28, 2020 In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act that had been enacted by Congress over his veto in 1867. Defying the law, Johnson fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, without getting Senate approval, as the act required him to do. In his 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, John F....

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – January 26, 2020 This year’s election is the most important in our lifetime. It is a tired cliché, one parroted by presidents and politicians every two years in hopes of driving their voters to the polls. But clichés become clichés for a reason: They tend to be true. This year, the decisions voters make...

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – January 24, 2020 Pro-life demonstrators recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally before the start of the 47th annual March For Life in Washington, January 24, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Friday’s rally saw a standout speech from Louisiana state representative Katrina Jackson, a Democrat who spearheaded the state’s abortion restrictions. Louisiana state representative...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 20, 2020 When the Montana Legislature created a K-12 scholarship program funded via private donations and tax credits, it was a godsend to Kendra Espinoza. An office assistant by day and janitor by night, the single mom had pulled her two daughters out of public school. One was bullied for studying the...