By: Andrew Malcolm – hotair.com – November 16, 2018 Remember when Democrats mocked last year’s tax-cut legislation? And Nancy Pelosi called the tax breaks for Americans “crumbs”? But President Trump and congressional Republicans said they would ignite a booming economy and actually increase federal tax collections from greater economic activity including more consumer spending, business investments, higher wages and even...

By: Arthur C. Brooks – nytimes.com – November 23, 2018 America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness. According to a recent large-scale survey from the health care provider Cigna, most Americans suffer from strong feelings of loneliness and a lack of significance in their relationships. Nearly half say they sometimes or always feel alone or “left out.” Thirteen percent of...

By Richard Schiffman – nytimes.com – November 20, 2018 Thanksgiving is America’s yearly celebration of family togetherness. But with partisan divisions at a boiling point after the polarizing midterm election and a punishing political year, many are bracing themselves for a war of words at the dinner table this Thursday. For the past two decades, Peter Coleman, the director of...

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – November 13, 2018 A 20-year-old student senator at the University of California Berkeley says she didn’t expect the intense opposition she received for voicing her Christian beliefs on sexual identity and gender. Although Isabella Chow, a junior, has the support of the school’s College Republicans chapter, her own student party cut ties with...

By: Deirdre Shesgreen – usatoday.com – November 20, 2018 President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered a full-throated defense of Saudi Arabia and cast doubt on a U.S. intelligence assessment that the kingdom’s crown prince knew about the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. “It could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event –...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – November 19, 2018 Claims to the contrary wrongly undermine faith in our elections. When is it acceptable to question the legitimacy of an American election outcome? The proper answer is “almost never.” Or, more precisely, never do it without overwhelming evidence of fraud or misconduct that’s substantial enough to alter the outcome of the...

By: Brandon Waltens – empowertexans.com – November 13, 2018 In a Facebook post Monday night, State Rep. Matt Krause (R–Fort Worth) listed for his constituents and followers his reasons for signing on to support State Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R–Angleton) in his bid for speaker of the Texas House. In his post, Krause explains that Bonnen satisfies his three goals for...

By: Ryan Ellis – forbes.com – Mar 9, 2018 This week, Congressional Democrats released a detailed tax hike plan that they promised to implement if given majority control of the House and Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. So much for the crocodile tears about the deficit–Democrats want to raise taxes not to reduce the debt, but rather to spend...

By: Kevin D. Wiliamson – nationalreview.com – November 18, 2018 Do you know what scares an American outdoorsman more than a grizzly bear? Twitter. In the late summer and early autumn, the hunting world had its eyes on the courts: The Trump administration had issued new guidance that would permit the hunting of brown bears (popularly known as grizzly bears),...

By: Jerry Newcombe – townhall.com – November 15, 2018 Well, here we go again. Is there something in the water of Broward County that causes these post-election ballot battles? I write this as a Broward resident for some 33 years now. Writing for The Floridian (11/12/18), Javier Manjarres notes, “Since election day, well over 60,000 ballots have been found, and...