By: Mimi Teixeira & Robert Rector – dailysignal.com – April 11, 2018 President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order calling for reforms in the welfare system to promote work and strengthen marriage. The president is right to address this pressing issue. Welfare reform is needed. Today, the welfare system aggressively penalizes marriage among low-income parents and discourages work...

By: Brian Steinberg – variety.com – July 2, 2018 Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been told by President Donald Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign for the Oval Office, is leaving the network....

By: Max Greenwood – thehill.com – June 29, 2018 A newspaper reporter in Massachusetts resigned on Friday after falsely claiming in a tweet that the gunman who opened fire on a newsroom in Maryland a day earlier was wearing a hat bearing President Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass.,...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 2, 2018 Efforts to block the highly qualified Barrett from the Supreme Court because of her faith betray our nation’s founding ideals. If you ever need much evidence that the growing “God gap” in American politics fosters an immense amount of ignorance and occasionally outright bigotry, look no farther than the concern —...

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – July 1, 2018 Remember when President Trump said we were going to win so much that we are going to get tired of it? That’s exactly how it felt this past month. But I’m not tired. Far from it. The Supreme Court has been delivering, big time, on Mr. Trump’s promise to restore the...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – June 28, 2018 As covered earlier today and yesterday, the rhetoric of the Left is escalating to dangerous levels. Within a little more than a week, Maxine Waters called for the public and perpetual harassment of Trump’s Cabinet (see here), Sarah Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen were rejected at restaurants (covered here), and raging imbecile...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – June 28, 2018 The Democrats are not taking the news of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement well at all. It’s a full-blown meltdown. I mean, if you thought the Neil Gorsuch nomination drama was bad—and it got intense at times, brace yourselves for the barbarian hordes this summer. Yes, the Democrats will up the ante—they...

By: First Liberty Institue – firstliberty.org – June 28, 2018 Christmas In July! As Supreme Court term closes, First Liberty celebrates several victories that could change landscape of religious liberty Dear Friend of Liberty, This week has truly felt like Christmas in July. Today, we have yet another major religious freedom victory to announce as we head into the 4th of...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 28, 2018 Years ago, when I was a young lawyer, I had an interesting conversation with a much older judge. He was a Democrat, an old-school liberal, and he said something revealing: “There’s the law, and then there’s what’s right. My job is to do what’s right.” Or, to put the philosophy in...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 Earlier this afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. Court observers long thought it was possible that he’d step down after this most recent term, but now it’s confirmed. The moment has arrived. In the first two years of his first term, President Trump is set to nominate just as many...