By: Lenny Bernstein – washingtonpost.com – November 29, 2018 Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said Thursday in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises. The data continued the longest sustained decline in expected life span at birth in a century, an...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – December 03, 2018 Before we delve into her new “argument,” I’d like to make a point about why the conservative commentariat sometimes seems fixated on Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. First, she entered the national spotlight as a media fascination and darling — a young woman of color who shook up the Democratic Party from the...

By: Tim Lambert – thsc.org – 2018 In the ongoing battle for restoration of the fundamental constitutional right of fit parents to direct the care, control, and upbringing of their children, we often challenge Child Protective Service (CPS) workers who investigate allegations of abuse and/or neglect. While state law requires that every legitimate allegation be investigated, often these caseworkers go...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – November 29, 2018 The news was expected, but that doesn’t make it any less grim. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its annual report on American life expectancy, and it’s official — American life expectancy has declined again. As the Washington Post reported, our nation is experiencing the “longest sustained decline...

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: Dr. Merrill Matthews – texasinsider.org – November 15, 2018 The governor’s election in Georgia has led to charges of racism and voter suppression. Or maybe it’s just good governance. Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the GOP candidate for governor, has used his time in that office trying to clean up the state’s voter rolls. We won’t comment on...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – November 15, 2018 A mob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of November 7. They yelled, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!” The mob’s apparent aim was to catch Carlson’s family...

By: Tom Giovanetti – dallasnews.com – November 15, 2018 We’ve entered the last two months of the 115th Congress, the last Congress under Republican control for who-knows-how-long. Many Republicans think the midterm disappointment was an aberration, and that reclaiming control of the House is more-or-less a given thing in the next election cycle. But the future is a foreign country....

By: Tom Gilson – stream.org – November 12, 2018 Rolling Stone published an article last month on “The Health Department’s Christian Crusade,” written by Tessa Stuart. Pro-life advocates will be encouraged to read the news it reports, but not the spin it puts on it. It’s another good example of how the other side handles this debate. This so-called “Christian...

By: Tom Gilson – stream.org – November 12, 2018 Rolling Stone published an article last month on “The Health Department’s Christian Crusade,” written by Tessa Stuart. Pro-life advocates will be encouraged to read the news it reports, but not the spin it puts on it. It’s another good example of how the other side handles this debate. This so-called “Christian...