By: Timothy Meads – townhall.com – July 29, 2018 In the latest efforts to rectify America’s history of its slaveholding past, Austin’s Equity Office suggested that the Texas capital change its entire name in addition to removing statues and street signs in honor of Confederate soldiers. Austin, TX is named after Stephen F. Austin. The man, now known as the...

By: Chris Johnson – gaysonoma.com – July 26, 2018 With August fast approaching, U.S. Senators would customarily leave Washington for their annual break, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding them in session for votes on President Trump’s judicial nominees — many of whom would likely threaten LGBT rights if confirmed. The Washington Blade has highlighted five nominees that...

By: Stephen Dinan – Washingtontimes.com – July 26, 2018 Forget the Russian government — foreign nationals are increasingly gaining the ability to influence American elections more directly. They’re being granted the right to vote. From Boston, where the city council is debating the move, to San Francisco, where noncitizens gained the right earlier this month in school-board elections, jurisdictions are...

By: Masood Farivar – voanews.com – July 26, 2018 This week the Trump administration is hosting an international summit in Washington aimed at advancing religious freedom around the world. Government representatives say the event showcases the link among freedom of worship, human rights and economic prosperity. “America stands for religious freedom not only because it is the morally right thing...

By: Staff – toddstarnes.com – July 25, 2018 The commander of Warren Air Force Base is refusing to back down after she surrendered to the demands of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and removed a Bible from a POW-MIA table. Col. Stacy Jo Huser, the 90th Missile Wing commander replaced the Bible with a generic “book of faith” to ensure...

By: Rachel Alexander – stream.org – July 25, 2018 Ever since Donald Trump became president, the left has acted as if the world is falling apart. But the overreaction isn’t convincing people. Trump’s approval rating has gone up 6 percent since the beginning of 2018. It is at the highest level since he took office. The truth is, Trump really...

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – July , 2018 Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia, France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison. It’s fair to say the soccer match was worthier of feting. The Bastille takeover sparked the French...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 20, 2018 I’ve got some questions for my progressive readers. When you think of Colin Kaepernick, do you define him by his quiet kneeling and many thoughtful interviews? Or do you define him by the socks he wore once, dehumanizing cops as pigs? When you think of writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, do you define...

By: Alex Roarty – miamiherald.com – July 20, 2018 Leading moderate Democrats forcefully argued this week that the party can embrace a robust agenda of change while still praising capitalism and downplaying income inequality. In other words, everything the empowered liberal base has spent a year and a half mobilizing against. Democrats gathered here in Ohio’s capital city on Thursday...

By: Karoun Demirjian – washingtonpost.com – July 19, 2018 The GOP’s bid to transform the federal bench with conservative judges hit its first significant snag Thursday as the White House withdrew the nomination of Ryan Bounds to serve on the powerful and famously liberal 9th Circuit appeals court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would withdraw Bounds’s nomination...