By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 26, 2019 Like swallows returning to Capistrano, socialism makes an appearance on a regular cycle. The current presidential campaign features self-confessed socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who doesn’t self-describe as a socialist, but whose policies closely resemble those of Sanders. Sanders has the luxury of condemning millionaires and billionaires...

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – bloomberg.com – December 24, 2019 Democrats are facing a challenge they haven’t confronted since the 1988 presidential election. They are trying to persuade enough Americans to kick a Republican out of the White House even though the economy is doing well. They failed that year – and as their latest presidential debate showed, so far they haven’t figured out...

By: Nick Arama – restate.com – December 26, 2019 In the wake of the impeachment vote by the House, there have been a lot of people weighing in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to sit on the articles and what that means from here. We reported how a Democratic witness during the impeachment hearings, Harvard professor Noah Feldman opined...

By: Sarah Pulliam Bailey – washingtonpost.com – December 24, 2019 The decision by Christianity Today to publish an editorial describing President Trump as “immoral” and calling for his removal drew immediate rebuke from the president himself, who called the outlet “a far left magazine.” The piece drew nearly 3 million unique visitors to the magazine’s website and became the talk of TV news...

By: John Grano and Richard Land – christianpost.com – December 23, 2019 Christianity Today editor Mark Galli’s “lofty” op-ed last week calling for President Trump’s removal from office touched off a firestorm of criticism and dissent from scores of evangelical leaders, and the backlash and debate have reached “critical mass” since its publication. Meanwhile, secular media immediately seized upon the CT editorial...

By: Nick Arama – redstate.com – December 25, 2019 To see this article, others by Mr. Arama, and from Red State, click read more. Jazz Shaw over at Hot Air took the hit for all of us. He saw a Washington Post article titled, “The True Meaning of Christmas.” Although he speaks of his “inherently cynical nature,” he “succumbed to a moment...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – December 23, 2019 As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazine’s call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, 200 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday. In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, the group of evangelicals chided Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli for penning an anti-Trump...

By: Michael Brown – stream.org – December 20, 2019 Like many evangelicals, I have great respect for Christianity Today. It remains a hallmark evangelical publication. And although it has leaned leftward in some respects in recent years, it is quite conservative compared to far-left evangelical publications like Jim Wallis’ Sojourners. So, it represents a serious moment when Mark Galli, the...

By: Sister Toldjah – redstate.com – redstate.com We were told by our intellectual betters on the left and in the mainstream media that it was a “solemn” day in Washington, D.C. Wednesday as House Democrats prepared to line up in order to enthusiastically vote to impeach President Trump. But at the same time Democrats like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) and others “somberly” laughed...

By: Sylvan Lane – thehill.com – December 19, 2019 The House on Thursday passed a bill to implement President Trump’s overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), advancing a crucial piece of his economic agenda with strong bipartisan support. The bill to enact Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) passed 385 to 41, with 38 Democrats, two Republicans and Rep. Justin...