By: Alexander Bolton, Naomi Jagoda and Scott Wong – thehill.com – December 14, 2017 Obstacles emerge as GOP races to tax finish A revolt from two Republican senators concerned about the child tax credit and the absence of two more Republican senators because of illness has injected fresh uncertainty into the GOP’s tax bill push. The Senate was expected to...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 14, 2017 Side issues — some of them created by the president himself — have obscured the accomplishments of the Trump administration during his first year in office. The economy is the most obvious one. From anemic growth in the previous administration, it is now growing at around 3 percent, which economists say...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 14, 2017 Side issues — some of them created by the president himself — have obscured the accomplishments of the Trump administration during his first year in office. The economy is the most obvious one. From anemic growth in the previous administration, it is now growing at around 3 percent, which economists say...

Patients from across the political spectrum have united to get Congress to require healthcare providers to publish prices. #publishtheprices At an undisclosed location deep in the Rocky Mountains, a patient-driven health care plan is being crafted. The corrosive influence of donations from drug, hospital and insurance companies cannot find us. PatientsUSA first mission is to have our federal legislators pass...

By: James Freeman – wsj.com – December 6, 2017 Investors have been expressing every way they can that pending federal tax reform is good for economic growth, as each day seems to bring new signs of confidence about future U.S. prosperity. Now comes word of a buying binge happening in a part of the automotive sector. According to the Journal:...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – December 5, 2017 One way to kill a predatory animal is to deny it sustenance. The tax-cut bill passed by the Senate, if it clears a conference with the House and President Trump signs it, may be the first step toward starving the big government beast. Reporting on the Senate vote early Saturday morning...

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – December 4, 2017 The Post reported that a former top FBI official, Peter Strzok, who had been assigned to and then removed from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, had “exchanged politically charged texts disparaging [President] Trump and supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton” and that Strzok was “also a key player in the investigation...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – November 30, 2017 In the interest of intellectual honesty and transparency, let’s begin with a few important concessions to skeptics of the GOP tax reform bill: First, not every single American would be a winner under the plan.  A small percentage of US taxpayers would see a tax increase (disproportionately, these would be higher-income...

by Joe Carter – hegospelcoalition.org – June 8, 2017 The Story: In a confirmation hearing of an executive branch nominee, two U.S. senators imply that those who believe Jesus is the only way to salvation are “Islamophobic” and not fit for public office. The Background: Last year, a controversy erupted when a political science professor at Wheaton College decided to wear a...

by David French – nationalreview.com – June 8, 2017 At an increasing rate, Americans separate themselves into culturally and ideologically homogeneous enclaves. Last week there were two telling incidents — one small, the other more consequential — that spoke volumes about the state of our national life. Let’s start small. Over in Seattle, in the midst of a debate over...