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...

  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...

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...

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...

By: Kurt Wagner – recode.net – April 11, 2018 Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook’s data collection and privacy policies this week from almost 100 different politicians in nearly 10 hours of public testimony. The hearings had it all. One lawmaker literally held up the U.S. Constitution at Zuckerberg and recited the First Amendment. Another asked him about his college...

By: Foster Friess – usatoday.com – March 9, 2018 If we are going to help avoid new generations of school violence like that unleashed in Parkland, Fla., last month, changing laws isn’t enough. We have to address the core of the problem: the shooter himself. Who was Nikolas Cruz? Like many other mass shooters, fatherless or a victim of divorce,...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 05, 2018 Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a great day yesterday, making an embarrassing, ‘Anchorman’-style mistake on social media, then handing Republicans another ready-made attack line against Democrats heading into the fall.  On the Twitter faux pas, it looks like she or somebody on her staff was supposed to tag a tweet with names...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – April 4, 2018 Once upon a time, we cared about the welfare of our fellow Americans. Farmers in the Midwest devastated by tornadoes, trailer parks washed away in a Florida hurricane, our country’s ranking on various international comparisons — we all rooted for our fellow Americans. Like all countries, we would squabble, but we...

The media’s biggest target after Trump is Scott Pruitt, the president’s most effective cabinet secretary. Ousting him would be a huge victory. By: Mollie Ziegler Hemingway – TheFederalist.com – April 4, 2018 After Donald Trump, the individual in DC with the biggest target on his back is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. When he was attorney general of Oklahoma,...

By: Mark Antonio Wright – nationalreview.com – April 3, 2018 A deeply red state has refused to fund its schools at adequate levels, and conservatives there must work to change that. In the shadow of the state capitol building on Monday morning, thousands of public-school teachers from across the state rallied after walking off the job. After months of negotiations...