By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 24, 2019 How the media fail Our national press is a national joke. Vain, languid, excitable, morbid, duplicitous, cheap, insular, mawkish, and possessed of a chronic self-obsession that would have made Dorian Gray blush, it rambles around the United States in neon pants, demanding congratulation for its travails. Not since Florence...

By: Thomson/Reuters – newsmax.com – January 26, 2019 The U.S. economy lost at least $6 billion during the partial shutdown of the federal government due to lost productivity from furloughed workers and economic activity lost to outside business, S&P Global Ratings said on Friday. President Donald Trump agreed on Friday to end the 35-day partial shutdown, the longest in history,...

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – nationalreview.com – January 25, 2019 A question that has come up a lot over the last few weeks is: Why didn’t Republicans fund a border wall, or at least a significant increase in physical barriers at the border, when they held both houses of Congress and the White House? I think the answer comes down to...

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – nationalreview.com – January 25, 2019 A question that has come up a lot over the last few weeks is: Why didn’t Republicans fund a border wall, or at least a significant increase in physical barriers at the border, when they held both houses of Congress and the White House? I think the answer comes down to...

By: James Wesolek – txvaluesaction.org – January 22, 2019 Texas Values Action sounded the alarm today on numerous bills filed in the Texas Legislature that allow the government to criminalize people of faith and effectively ban the Bible. These bills highlight a growing national trend to punish people of faith by forcing them to celebrate LGBT viewpoints or values and...

By: Warner Todd Huston – godfatherpolitics.com – January 26, 2019 Liberals continue to cling to their claim that there is no vote fraud in the U.S.A. But a new report by authorities in Texas just found that 58,000 illegal votes were cast by non-citizens in the Lone Star state over the last few years. The Texas Department of Public Safety...

By: Merrill Matthews – mailchi.mp/ipi – January 23, 2019 A new round of White House executive actions may be coming to boost the U.S. energy industry against Russia, an ongoing effort that’s hitting Russia’s pocketbook and making it more difficult for Vladimir Putin to use oil and gas as a foreign policy weapon to promote his agenda. “The Trump administration’s...

By Merrill Matthews – postbulletin.com – January 23, 2019 Your father’s Democratic Party might have a good chance at capturing the White House in 2020; your children’s Democratic Party, which is what we have today, faces a tougher fight. To win the election, Democrats will have to overcome two major obstacles: history and their lurch to the political left. They...

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – January 23, 2019 As reported by The Post’s Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane last week, and confirmed to me by Sens. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Senate Republicans are very close to changing the body’s rules governing the amount of time the Senate can debate a nomination. Doing so will...

By: Liz Wolfe – thefederalist.com – January 24, 2019 Yesterday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed expansive new abortion legislation into law, effectively making it easier for state residents to obtain post-viability, third-trimester abortions. The old text of the law allowed third-trimester abortions to be sought if the mother’s health was endangered; the just-passed Reproductive Health Act (RHA) expands the...