By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 24, 2018 Congress has, over several decades, slowly delegated to the president its constitutionally prescribed role of setting tariffs—which are taxes—and regulating international commerce. It’s time for Congress to take back that authority, and it may do just that. Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution says, “The Congress shall have Power...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 31, 2018 The Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a study by the Center’s Charles Blahous estimating the cost of a government-run, single-payer health care system similar to Senator Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act (M4A). Under single-payer, Americans drop their private insurance coverage, pay higher taxes and the government pays...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 9, 2018 On Monday — the day Facebook, Apple, and YouTube purged Alex Jones — Twitter’s Jack Dorsey made a lonely stand. In a series of tweets, Dorsey explained that Jones hadn’t violated Twitter’s rules, that Twitter intends to resist outside pressure and act “impartially regardless of political viewpoints,” and that it was...

By: Al Perrotta – stream.org – August 7, 2018 May 13, 2017. A predominantly black choir sits dejected. They had been rehearsing for weeks to sing for their school’s commencement speaker. Except when their big moment came, the music player failed. The program had to move on. They would not be able to sing. A few hours pass. The choir...

By: Tod Beamon – newsmax.com – August 8, 2018 Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that President Donald Trump would “resist” a subpoena from Robert Mueller as his attorneys rejected the special counsel latest’s interview offer and called for an end to the Russia investigation by Sept. 1. “There’s no question that the president would resist any kind of an attempt to...

By: Heather Mac Donald – nationalreview.com – August 8, 2018 The most significant feature of Sarah Jeong, the New York Times’ embattled new editorial board member, is not that she is a “racist,” as her critics put it. It is that she is an entirely typical product of the contemporary academy. After the New York Times announced Jeong’s hire in...

By: David French – nytimes.com – August 7, 2018 Let me start by making a few things abundantly clear. First, Alex Jones is a loathsome conspiracy theorist who generates loathsome content. Second, there is no First Amendment violation when a private company chooses to boot anyone off a private platform. Third, it seems reasonably clear that Mr. Jones’s content isn’t...

By: Howard Kurtz – FoxNews.com – August 8, 2018 Their cases could not be more different. But it’s getting increasingly difficult to defend the New York Times for hiring a writer with a history of racist and anti-Trump tweets, while Facebook, Apple and other tech giants are perfectly comfortable banning Alex Jones. The debate around Sarah Jeong, the Times’ newest...

By: Eric Bradner & Gregory Krieg – cnn.com – August 8, 2018 The Ohio special election for a House seat that’s been in Republican hands for three decades was too close to call Tuesday night. But that it was close at all shows just how daunting the political landscape facing Republicans is headed into November’s midterm elections. Ohio special election...

The Ohio special election for a House seat that’s been in Republican hands for three decades was too close to call Tuesday night. Source: Republicans should panic about the House, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s elections – CNNPolitics