By: Adam Andrzejewski & Tom Coburn – washingtonexaminer.com – July 09, 2018 While the nation was distracted by the political theater around immigration before the July 4 recess, the Senate cast a critical vote killing a very modest attempt offered by President Trump to rein in spending. If Trump plays his cards right, this will not be the end of...

By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – July 11, 2018 With Kavanaugh, we’re likely to get careful, narrowly tailored decisions, not earth-shattering transformation. Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the political Left and the triumphalist trumpeting from the political Right regarding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, one question has gone missing: What, exactly, will...

By: Avery Anapol – thehill.com – July 10, 2018 Lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a motion supporting NATO, as President Trump continues to criticize the alliance ahead of his summit in Europe. The nonbinding motion, which came as the Senate voted to reconcile its version of the annual defense policy bill with that of the House, expresses...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 10, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination now heads to the Senate, and the most important fact to understand is that the debate in the world’s greatest nondeliberative body is not about the future of the Supreme Court. That’s a sideshow. The real debate is about the future of the Senate—specifically, which political party...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 10, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination now heads to the Senate, and the most important fact to understand is that the debate in the world’s greatest nondeliberative body is not about the future of the Supreme Court. That’s a sideshow. The real debate is about the future of the Senate—specifically, which political party...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – June 2018 WIN! Government officials tell Mary Anne Sause to stop praying in her own home The First Amendment protects the religious liberties of all Americans to pray and peacefully exercise their religious beliefs – especially in their own homes. After police officers came to the home of Mary Anne Sause in 2013 to respond...

By: Staff – firstliberty.org – June 2018 WIN! Government officials tell Mary Anne Sause to stop praying in her own home The First Amendment protects the religious liberties of all Americans to pray and peacefully exercise their religious beliefs – especially in their own homes. After police officers came to the home of Mary Anne Sause in 2013 to respond...

By: Eliza Griswold – newyorker.com – May 16, 2018 Over the past six months, three women running in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primaries have grown to be close friends. Summer Lee, Sara Innamorato, and Elizabeth Fiedler, all candidates for the State House, are endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the hard-left organization founded in 1982 and revitalized by Bernie Sanders. Like...

By: Daniel Marans & Kevin Robillard – huffingtonpost.com – July 4, 2018 At a Democratic gubernatorial candidate forum in Detroit on Monday, progressive underdog Abdul El-Sayed knew just the thing to get the crowd going. “Who here has heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” he asked. Had they ever. More than 600 miles away from Ocasio-Cortez’s district, the crowd of several hundred...

By: Michael Scherer – washingtonpost.com – July 4, 2018 Liberal political strategists hope to block President Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee by replaying a strategy they used to help defeat the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year. The multimillion-dollar plan of advertising and grass-roots activism will focus heavily on convincing two Republican defenders of the ACA,...