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April 30th, 2018
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By: John Zmirak – stream.org – April 2, 2018 In the Netherlands, laws like Hawaii’s opened the door to euthanasia for depressed patients, or doctors killing unconscious patients who never consented. Like so much of the past five years, the legalization of murder in Hawaii played out like an episode from a paranoid Christian novel from the 1990s. You know,...
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April 30th, 2018
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By John Daniel Davidson – thefederalist.com – April 30, 2018 It wasn’t in the ‘best interests’ of Alfie Evans to die. It was in the best interests of the British welfare state to demonstrate its power. Alfie Evans is dead. The 23-month-old boy died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, five days after his life support...
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April 30th, 2018
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By John Daniel Davidson – thefederalist.com – April 30, 2018 It wasn’t in the ‘best interests’ of Alfie Evans to die. It was in the best interests of the British welfare state to demonstrate its power. Alfie Evans is dead. The 23-month-old boy died Saturday morning at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, five days after his life support...
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April 27th, 2018
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By: Theodore Kupfer – nationalreview.com – April 26, 2018 Progressive senators are rushing to align themselves with an idea everyone knows is bad policy. Within the last month, three Democratic senators have announced their support for a federal “jobs guarantee” program. In reverse chronological order, they were Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Kirsten Gillibrand. One by one, the rising stars...
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April 27th, 2018
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By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – April 26, 2018 The more Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he ignores the actual lawbreakers. The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck. In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump’s campaign team might have done wrong in...
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April 27th, 2018
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By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 26, 2018 Too many Trump critics have abandoned all pretense of respecting due process. The absurd ruling by District Judge John Bates in the DACA case — which means that what is lawlessly imposed by executive order may not be lawfully rescinded by executive order — reminds us that justice is being...
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April 24th, 2018
"george" author, Alex Gino
By: Emily Belz – world.wng.org – March 15, 2018 Robin Prather, a retired children’s librarian in Oregon and a Christian, volunteers at a school library in the district where she used to work. A fellow librarian pointed out a title to her in an upcoming popular reading competition for third- through fifth-graders: George by Alex Gino. The story centers on...
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April 20th, 2018
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  By: Dr. Merrill Matthews – mailchi.mp – April 17, 2018 Public school teachers have taken to the streets in a number of states demanding higher salaries. Conservatives often respond by claiming that we already spend enough on public education—an average of $11,392 per student, according to a recent article in Governing magazine. But not all of that money is...
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April 20th, 2018
Mike Pompeo
By: Ken Blackwell – stream.org – April 19, 2018 When the news broke on Tuesday night that CIA Director Mike Pompeo had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, I was not surprised. Pompeo had long ago established his importance to this administration and his understanding of geopolitics. Pompeo’s skills are precisely why the president nominated him to be the...
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April 18th, 2018
SC Justice Neil Gorsuch
By: AP Staff – businessinsider.com – April 17, 2018 The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. The court’s 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns...
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