By: Peggy Drexler – wsj.com – August 29, 2019 Chicago native Lola Vanderstrand was in her early 40s when she started looking for a husband online. She’d been married before, and she had her doubts about online dating. The site that she chose, Match.com, didn’t appeal to her at first, but Ms. Vanderstrand quickly realized that dating online was forcing her...

By: Daily Wire – dailywire.com – August 28, 2019 Don’t take my word for it, it’s not just insinuation. This is according to a new poll out — from [the] Wall Street Journal and NBC — which shows American values are shifting dramatically. Gradually then suddenly. This is from the article. “Patriotism, religion and having children rate lower among younger generations...

By: Nick Bailey – nbcnews.com – August 25, 2019 NORWICH, United Kingdom — When a place of worship has stood for almost a millennium, it would be easy to be skeptical about claims that it now includes a never-before-seen attraction. The huge carnival slide parked in the nave of Norwich’s ancient cathedral looks like it falls into that category. The first to...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – August 13, 2019 Virtually every week, there seems to be another issue that preoccupies the country. But while our attention is focused on President Donald Trump, Google, Charlottesville, Russia, impeachment, Jeffrey Epstein, the next elections, racism, a trade war with China, the #MeToo movement or something else, LGBTQ organizations are quietly going about their...

By: Michael Brown – stream.org – August 12, 2019 Update: The Christian Post reported on Tuesday that Sampson responded to Brown’s column, clarifying he hasn’t lost his faith, but it’s “on incredibly shaky ground.” I just read the news that Marty Sampson, a popular Hillsong song writer, is leaving the faith. In his words, “I’m genuinely losing my faith … and...

By: Edward C. Baig – usatoday.com – August 12, 2019 Trying to break free of the constant lure of your smartphone could make you feel like Michael Corleone in “The Godfather Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Bill Johnson tried taking a break. The 46-year-old sales director from Marion, Iowa, stopped using social media for 30...

By: Jessie Li – axios.com – Aug 10, 2019 An ongoing movement of “death cafes” — open salons for discussing death, with no set agenda — is spreading across America with the goal of ending the taboo around talking about dying. The big picture: The number of Americans 65 and older is on course to double from 46 million to over 98...

By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.com – August 6, 2019 The event is one of the most iconic in history. The 1936 Olympic Games are being held in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler intends them to be a showcase of Aryan supremacy. But a black man from America named Jesse Owens defeats Germany’s athletes and Hitler’s racism, winning four gold medals. One...

By: Byron York – washingtonexaminer.com – August 07, 2019 The manifesto written by accused El Paso mass killer Patrick Crusius is the basis for the argument that the shootings were inspired by President Trump. Media commentators, Democratic presidential candidates, and all types of Trump critics have made that case in the days since the murders. Much discussion was spurred by an article in...

By: Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel – dailycaller.com – August 08, 2019 What’s the point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer heal the divide they create with politics? It’s hard to know exactly, but the left is getting very close. Take,...