By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – June 10, 2018 Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas Goldberg argues that Fox News is “a danger to this country,” as the headline put it. Goldberg is the editorial-page editor of the paper, and he offers the familiar lament: “We live in an era in which Americans are being encouraged to disregard...

By: David Horowitz – conservativereview.com – June 5, 2018 Something funny happens when you actually take time to analyze a gravely transformative piece of legislation. It’s something that not a single member of the House who voted for the aptly named First Step Act got a chance to do: You understand the consequences of the bill. Proponents of the bill,...

By: Paul Mirengoff – powerlineblog.com – June 7, 2018 Earlier this week, Majority Leader McConnell cancelled most of the Senate’s August recess. He did so in response to the unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats in blocking floor votes on President Trump’s nominees. The cancellation hurts Democrats, and not just because it’s a blow against their obstruction. There are more vulnerable...

By: Guy Benson – townhill.com – June 7, 2018 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the upper chamber’s traditional August break would be severely limited this year. Democrats have lashed out at the decision, accusing McConnell of playing partisan hardball in an election year. They say he’s scheming to keep them in session, rather than back home (and...

By: Ryan T. Anderson – wsj.com – June 6, 2018 A 7-2 win at the Supreme Court is a big deal. But some advocates of religious freedom minimized the importance of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, saying it was a narrow ruling that applies only to the manifest hostility to religion the commission showed in adjudicating Jack Phillips’s...

By: Jeremiah Poff – dailysignal.com – June 06, 2018 A major conservative-libertarian advocacy group has thrown its support behind President Donald Trump’s call for canceling more than $15 billion in spending as a good first step in reining in the federal budget. Americans for Prosperity praises the president’s rescission request, which would claw back up to $15.3 billion in appropriated...

By: Chad Pergram – foxnews.com – June 6, 2018 A coalition of some Republicans and nearly all Democrats is attempting to go around House GOP leaders and force a debate later this month on a series of immigration bills against the wishes of GOP leaders. How do they do it? The mechanism is called a “discharge petition.” A discharge petition...

By: Tom Gilson – stream.org – June 5, 2018 It only took moments on Monday for LGBT activists to roll out their bogus talking points again. All three appeared like clockwork in MSNBC’s inevitable LGBT reaction story on Monday afternoon. They aren’t bogus because I disagree with them. They’re bogus because they’re false, irrational, deceitful and manipulative. And yet they...

By: Bob Dane – immigrationreform.com – April 26, 2018 Calling out election fraud in Dallas County, a Texas state senator wants voter registration rolls purged of illegal aliens and non-citizens. Sen. Don Huffines, R-Dallas, cited research showing 356 non-citizens voted in Dallas County between September 1999 and March 2007. The problem goes farther and deeper. In 2015, the election-watch group...

By: The Associated Press – ampproject.org – May 28, 2018 Lawyers who espouse a conservative Christian agenda have found plenty of opportunities in Texas, suing on behalf of Bible-quoting cheerleaders and defending a third-grader who wanted to hand out Christmas cards that read in part “Jesus is the Christ!” But for the First Liberty law firm, the last few years...