By: Tony Perkins & FRC Senior Writers – frc.org – November 27, 2018 The mainstream media may not understand evangelicals, but they’re no mystery to Alan Cooperman. The director of religion research at Pew has been studying their voting patterns for years, and he’s got news for the press: they’ve got it all wrong. In a special event at Miami...

By: Emily Holden – theguardian.com – November 29, 2018 A Trump cabinet member is striking a tone at odds with the president’s calls to meet immigrants at the Mexico border with force and demands that Congress fund a border wall. Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development and Trump’s only black cabinet appointee, delivered a speech to conservative...

By: John Yoo & James C. Phillips – nationalreview.com – November 29, 2018 In the wake of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, religion will probably present the first test of the new Roberts Court’s commitment to the original meaning of the Bill of Rights. Religion has not become a constitutional battlefield just because conservatives tend...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – November 28, 2018 Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MI) won her runoff election last night over Democrat Mike Espy in Mississippi, so Republicans have a solid 53-47 majority. No longer will we have to deal with the Murkowski-Collins question when it come sot tight votes of judicial and Supreme Court nominations. We can run the table...

By: American Bible Society – news.americanbible.org – October 30, 2018 As the mid-term elections approach, a few often-overlooked biblical characteristics may carry more weight among voters than politicians realize. The State of the Bible, a recent survey from American Bible Society, found that an overwhelming 90 percent of Americans believe elected officials should display peace, kindness, gentleness and self-control. These...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – November 27, 2018 I knew it. I knew the instant I saw Twitter erupt in outrage at the use of tear gas to disperse a crowd of people charging our southern border that someone would find an example of the Obama administration doing the same thing. And sure enough, there it was, shared far...

By: Julia Manchester – thehill.com – November 27, 2018 Public opinion analyst Karlyn Bowman said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Hill.TV’s “What America’s Thinking” that many Americans would like to see the issue of immigration taken off the national stage. “I think they’d like to remove the immigration issue, for example, from the national stage,” Bowman, a senior...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – November 24, 2018 On Google, I just typed in “top races Republican,” and the word “races” got a squiggly underline suggesting I had misspelled the word. Beneath it ran Google’s helpful correction: “top racist Republican.” With “top races Democrat,” no such veering into the gutter. No squiggly line. The word “racist” did not insinuate...

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...