By: Fred Lucas – stream.org – October 22, 2018 Feeling the political heat over separating families of illegal immigrants, President Donald Trump took executive action in June to scale back his “zero tolerance” policy for border crossers. But under existing law, this had fairly predictable results, immigration experts said. “Catch and release is not an official policy, but it is...

By David D. Kirkpatrick – nytimes.com – October 21, 2018 Turkish officials have been leaking lurid details for weeks about the assassination and reported dismemberment of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, keen to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia, has until now mostly held his tongue. On Sunday, Mr....

By: Erica L. Green, Katie Benner, & Robert Pear – nytimes.com – October 21, 2018 The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions...

By: Jack Crowe – nationalreview.com – October 18, 2018 House minority leader Nancy Pelosi met with survivors of the Parkland, Fla. mass shooting Wednesday to discuss their gun control advocacy work and to praise the students for forcing lawmakers to confront the issue of gun violence. During a round table discussion moderated by Representative Ted Deutch (D., Fla.), Pelosi credited...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – October 17, 2018 The Left keeps chanting that they “believe survivors.” The slogan, of course, makes no sense — the word “survivor” is loaded, suggesting the accuser is telling the truth. Therefore, they should be believed. It’s no less positioned than if the Right were to chant, “Don’t believe liars.” How has all the...

By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – October 17, 2018 Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has been telling a story for years. It’s a deeply romantic story about her parents and their young love, fraught with the familial bigotry of an earlier time. Here’s how she told it this week in a video she released in preparation for her 2020 run:...

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2018 A detailed look at the numbers. How will the Senate races break? We have less public polling to go on than in recent years, so answering that question is harder than ever. But the news is more optimistic for Republicans than it was a month ago. Waves and Breakers Four years...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2018 Do you want to know what media bias looks like? Earlier today, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released DNA test results that confirmed that she misled employers, students, and the public about her Native American heritage for years. Bizarrely, all too many members of the media treated the results as vindicating her....

By: Michael Goodwin – nypost.com – October 9, 2018 Two events from the last two days stand out. The first came Monday night with President Trump’s forceful yet compassionate speech at the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The president opened with an extraordinary apology on behalf of the country to Kav­anaugh and his family “for the...

By: Jeremy Dys – wsj.com – October 11, 2018 Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. By Jeremy Dys As a lowly corporal, Milton Edward Hartman’s death shouldn’t have drawn much attention. But on a summer day in 1919, it seemed as if half the town of...