A candlelight vigil is held at Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church for victims of the shooting at the Congregation Chabad synagogue in Poway, San Diego, Calif., April 27, 2019. (John Gastaldo/Reuters) By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – April 29, 2019 Some will look at this weekend’s Poway synagogue shooting and argue that it reflects an anti-Semitism problem. (They aren’t wrong, either: Judging by...

By: Rachel Alexander –  stream.org – April 29, 2019 There’s been a rash of anti-Semitic events in recent months, many of which have ties to the left. On Saturday, a gunman opened fire on a synagogue near San Diego on the last day of Passover, killing a woman and injuring three others. In his Manifesto, he criticized Trump for being a...

By: Elizabeth Vaughn – redstate.com – April 28, 2019 My Colleague, Alex Parker, posted here about Saturday’s shooting at Congregation Chabad, a synagogue located in Poway, Ca. The attack left one parishioner dead and three wounded. According to reports from ABC News and CNN, the suspect, identified as John T. Earnest, published “an anti-Semitic and anti-Trump manifesto online” prior to the attack. NBC News reported...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – April 28, 2019 The rabbi who led a service on the last day of Passover suffered a gunshot wound to his hands and two others endured shrapnel wounds as political, civic and religious leaders across the country struggled to make sense of another fatal attack on a house of worship six months after a mass shooting in a...

By: Trais Fredschun – foxnews.com – April 23, 2019 The Easter Sunday attacks on churches, hotels and other sites across Sri Lanka  that killed over 300 people have now spurred some lawmakers to call for a full burqa ban. A bill was announced Tuesday on the Facebook page of UNP Parliamentarian Ashu Marasinghe to propose banning the burqa in Sri...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 15, 2019 Over the weekend, American political discourse reached another one of its low moments — a moment of nearly record-level hypocrisy and absurdity. And once again, a low moment centered around one of the Democrats’ celebrity House freshmen, Ilhan Omar. The cycle went like this. First, Twitter discovered an excerpt of a speech Omar...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – March 27, 2019 Chicago is still reeling from yesterday’s extraordinary development in the Jussie Smollett case, in which the office of the State’s Attorney chose to drop all 16 felony charges against the disgraced actor.  This set off a volcanic and irate reaction among other city authorities, especially within the police department.  Aside from letting...

By: Jessica Sager – FoxNews.com – March 26, 2019 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his city’s police force Tuesday afternoon, denouncing prosecutors for dropping charges against “Empire” star Jussie Smollett and slamming the episode as a “whitewash of justice.” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Emanuel said they were not only furious with the outcome of Tuesday’s surprise hearing but...

By: Nick Perry & Mark Baker – apnews.com –  March 15, 2019 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — At least 49 people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” One man was arrested and charged with murder in what appeared to be a carefully...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 13, 2019 Universities are more than innocent victims in this scandal. Coming soon to a theater near you: The movie about wealthy and famous parents who paid a California fixer to cheat their child’s way into universities. Many readers have heard about the charges against 50 or so people on Tuesday for this real-life fraud...