By: Jay Cost – nationalreview.com – March 15, 2018 Unless Trump’s approval rating climbs, get ready to say, ‘Speaker Nancy Pelosi.’ Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district has people wondering whether the Republicans can control the House in November. PA-18, after all, went to Trump by 20 points in the 2016 election, so...

By: Stacey Lennox – themaven.net – March 14, 2018 A federal appeals court ruled that the majority of Texas law banning sanctuary cities can be implemented for now. Today a federal appeals judge ruled most of the Texas law outlawing sanctuary cities within the state can be implemented while the legal challenge continues in a lower court. Governor Abbott decided...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2018 Evangelicals had good reasons to vote for Trump; they don’t have good reasons to join his tribe. Over at The Atlantic, Michael Gerson, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, has penned an extended essay that attempts to explain a complex and disturbing reality — how Evangelicals “became an anxious religious minority...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2018 Evangelicals had good reasons to vote for Trump; they don’t have good reasons to join his tribe. Over at The Atlantic, Michael Gerson, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, has penned an extended essay that attempts to explain a complex and disturbing reality — how Evangelicals “became an anxious religious minority...

By: Peter Baker, Gardiner Harris & Mark Landler – nytimes.com – March 13, 2018 President Trump on Tuesday ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, extending a shake-up of his administration, 14 months into his tumultuous presidency, and potentially transforming the nation’s economic and foreign policy. Mr. Trump announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A....

By: Michael Gerson – theatlantic.com – April 2018 Issue One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent political history—is the loyal adherence of religious conservatives to Donald Trump. The president won four-fifths of the votes of white evangelical Christians. This was a higher level of support than either Ronald Reagan...

By: Ray Locker and David Jackson – usatoday.com – March 13, 2018 After months of disputes with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Trump removed him Tuesday and nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to head the State Department. Trump told reporters he made the decision himself, citing disagreements with Tillerson that included North Korea diplomacy, steel and aluminum tariffs, and...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – March 10, 2018 Veteran reporter Bob Woodward has noticed a trend in today’s news media: they’re going insane over the Trump presidency. Then again, he falls short in saying that the industry has failed at doing their jobs in the Trump era. With a laser focus on the increasingly shoddy Russia collusion story, the...

By: Robert Kania Jr. & Marjorie Dannenfelser – nationalreview.com – March 10, 2018 The Democratic politician supports late-term abortion, despite both the teachings of his Catholic faith and the scientific reality of human life. Any reasonable person, Catholic or not, would acknowledge that being pro-life on the issue of abortion is a non-negotiable teaching for members of the Catholic Church....

By: Ginni Thomas – dailycaller.com – June 3, 2017 The left is using mob tactics to publicly “harm” conservative leaders, but one successful crisis communicator and digital forensics expert is working to shut down these liberal attacks. Brian Glicklich is best known as the digital forensics expert who successfully stopped the “Hush Rush” conspiracy intended to censor or force Rush...