By: Myron Magnet – wsj.com – January 1, 2020 Does it make sense that a person can burn an American flag with impunity but not a gay-pride flag? Earlier this month, a judge in Story County, Iowa, sentenced Adolfo Martinez to a preposterous 16 years in prison for swiping the rainbow flag from a nearby church and burning it in front...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – December 30, 2019 So far, it looks like the decade of social media will make moral panics a habit. My nomination for the trend of the decade is the expansion of social media and the contraction of our social world into it. At the very end of the first decade of the century, social media...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – December 29, 2019 On the hypocrisy of celebrity activists I love Emma Thompson’s acting. I wish somebody would tell her about Skype. The great English actress is a climate-change activist, “activist” here meaning “a celebrity who cares about popular causes in public.” When she recently was accused of hypocrisy for jumping on a jet to...

By: Bronson Stocking – townhall.com – December 29, 2019 Following a spate of antisemitic attacks in Democratic-led New York, Democratic politicians have been busy trying to shift the blame on Donald Trump. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, New York City Mayor Mike de Blasio blamed Donald Trump for creating an “atmosphere of hate” that has somehow fueled antisemitic attacks...

By: Alex Parker – RedState.com – December 29, 2019 If you haven’t seen the video of the church shooting in Texas, beware: It’s harrowing. Yet, it illustrates such a simple idea which some in politics seem hellbent on ignoring. There’s largely only one way to defend oneself against a gun. And it isn’t a law, since murderers aren’t intimidated by...

By: John Grano and Richard Land – christianpost.com – December 23, 2019 Christianity Today editor Mark Galli’s “lofty” op-ed last week calling for President Trump’s removal from office touched off a firestorm of criticism and dissent from scores of evangelical leaders, and the backlash and debate have reached “critical mass” since its publication. Meanwhile, secular media immediately seized upon the CT editorial...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – December 12, 2019 How politically diverse is the Yale faculty today? According to an article by James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal: “0%.” He notes, “Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members...

By: Michael Brown – stream.org – December 12, 2019 There is no question that Jews are now being targeted for killing right here in America, with the latest attack, in Jersey City, New Jersey, being branded as an anti-Semitic hate crime. Let’s stop for a moment and look back over the last 15 months. October 27, 2018. A white supremacist...

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – September 24, 2019 I think we can all agree it was unfair, what happened to Greta Thunberg. We need to make sure that kind of treatment is never meted out to a mere kid, ever again. Media outlets, politicians, and ordinary people around the world rushed to demonize her, and we should all be ashamed...

By: Ben Shapiro – townhall.com – December 4, 2019 This week, Paul Krugman of The New York Times posited a theory: Red states cause depression and suicide. In a column titled “America’s Red State Death Trip,” Krugman wrote: “In 1990, today’s red and blue states had almost the same life expectancy. Since then, however, life expectancy in Clinton states has...