By: Marc Fisher – washingtonpost.com – May 18, 2020 Whether it’s the mall, restaurants, concerts, ballparks or even drive-in movie theaters, Americans are making it clear: They won’t be ready to go out to their favorite destinations until they feel confident about being able to go. To the bathroom, that is. The idea of a return to life in public is unnerving enough for...

By: John Stossel – dailysignal.com – May 6, 2020 Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags. California and Hawaii banned them, then New York. Then Oregon, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont passed laws against them. More than 400 cities did, too. Why? Because plastic bags are evil, didn’t you know? “Look at the damage done by...

By: Julie Kelly – amgreatness.com – May 4, 2020 After a two-month trial, researchers are collecting early outcomes of the Great American Social Distancing Experiment of 2020. The results, to say the least, ain’t pretty—and the “experts” who initiated this experiment on 330 million well-meaning but unwitting test subjects are starting to admit failure. “Wait. An experiment?” you may ask. But...

By: Grady Means – thehill.com – May 5, 2020 The coronavirus has led to the greatest economic catastrophe in our lifetimes. Record losses in the market, record bankruptcies, record unemployment and, soon, record insolvency of local governments. This social and economic firestorm will lead to massive shifts in political alignment. The question is, which way will politics shift this year...

By: Joel B. Pollak – breitbart.com – May 4, 2020 The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary was awarded Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones for an essay in the New York Times that falsely claimed the American Revolution was fought primarily to protect slavery. The essay, titled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them...

By: Scott Slayton – ChristianHeadlines.com – April 27, 2020 Christian author and teacher Josh McDowell recently shared his concerns that the COVID-19 lockdowns are going to fan the flames on two major issues already facing American culture: pornography addiction and loneliness. According to CBN News, McDowell expounds on these issues in a document on his website called “What Comes Next?” McDowell, author of...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2020 From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been obvious that the fates of public health and the economy were tied together. Weeks before formalized “lockdown” policies began appearing, as news about the danger of the coronavirus spread, economic activity dramatically slowed. And it obviously won’t speed up again until the...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – April 28, 2020 All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here” — referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that. But...

By: Robert Verbruggen –  nationalreview.com  – April 28, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has thrust data-wranglers into a national spotlight they normally enjoy only in the runup to a presidential election. The death projections put forth by the University of Washington’s COVID-19 model have become the New York Times election needle of early to mid 2020: We all hang on their...

By: Douglas Groothuis, PhD – douglasgroothuis.com – March 20, 2020 With social media, anyone can post anything about anything. You are your own editor, publisher, and promoter. Everyone is an expert or can pose as one. Or perhaps the idea of an expert is dead. Since ethos is essential in persuasion, let me “speak as a fool” (as Apostle Paul put...