By: Zach Despart – houstonchronicle.com – October 8, 2019 Two Harris County Commissioners Court members skipped Tuesday’s meeting, preventing the Democratic majority from voting on a property tax hike that would increase county revenue by 8 percent. The no-shows by Republican commissioners Steve Radack and Jack Cagle mean the county will revert to the effective tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year, which will...

By: Arthur C. Brooks – washingtonpost.com – October 7, 2019 In political news — or is it entertainment news? — actress Scarlett Johansson has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president in 2020. Meanwhile, Tom Hanks has lined up behind Joe Biden, and Miley Cyrus is publicly supporting Bernie Sanders. Wait, did you just say, “Who cares?” Actually, I predicted that you would have no interest...

By: Wesley J. Smith – nationalreview.com – September 19, 2019 I wrote the other day about the intention within bioethics to destroy Catholic healthcare. Today, a court ruling from California proves my point. A Catholic hospital known as Dignity Health refused to perform a hysterectomy on a transgendered male, as against Catholic moral teaching. The patient sued for discrimination, but the case...

By: Ryan Anderson – nypost.com – October 6, 2019 Does a 50-year-old law banning discrimination based on sex mean employers must treat biological men who identify as women as if they are women? That’s the question the Supreme Court will consider Tuesday when it hears arguments in Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Supremes’ answer could have enormous implications...

By: Shannon Bream & Bill Mears – foxnews.com – October 4, 2019 The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a challenge to a controversial Louisiana abortion law, with a decision on the politically and socially charged issue expected in the middle of a presidential election year. At issue is a state statute requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a...

But did she wake up just in time or too late? In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China. For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities...

Kerby Anderson discusses historians’ perspectives on the rise and fall of nations, concluding with a biblical perspective. He finds civilizations which depart from Christian values are on the road to irrelevance. He considers factors which may lead to the decline of this nation’s position as the only world super-power.  He points out the relationship between moral and spiritual decline and...

How many times do Democrats get to cry wolf before a rational body politic tells them to go fly a kite? Instead of retreating with tails between their legs over their failed Russia hoax, they’re already at it again. Did any Democrats leading the false charge that President Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election ever apologize for...

Impeachment is about to make everything worse. If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered, and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate. Democrats have had an impeachment itch that they’ve been desperate to scratch ever since Donald Trump took office. For them, Ukraine is equal parts a genuine outrage and...

He will be perceived, rightly or wrongly, as growing stronger for enduring ever shriller and more monotonous attacks. Contrary to suggestions by some, most Trump supporters are not automatons or blind supporters. What bothers them, and should bother others, about the latest Ukraine hysterias is the familiar monotony of this latest scripted psychodrama. Source: Impeachment Push against Trump May Only...