By: Peter Hasson – dailysignal.com – July 02, 2019 Members of the violent left-wing movement Antifa have repeatedly harassed and attacked members of the media who cover them. Masked individuals at an Antifa rally Saturday violently attacked Portland journalist Andy Ngo, sending him to the hospital. While some members of the national media have been sympathetic toward Antifa in the past, that hasn’t kept Antifa members from...

By Rachel Alexander – stream.com – June 16, 2019 Go on Twitter. It started as a cussing match. Then turned into a fight. Now it’s turning into a brawl. Prominent conservatives are attacking each other. Some of them are the brightest minds in the movement. They should be working together, not tearing each other down. True, Twitter brings out the worst in...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 17, 2019 Today, Parkland-shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv tweeted that Harvard University had rescinded his admissions offer after it discovered that he’d made offensive, racist comments in a private online chat when he was 16 years old. I’m not going to repeat what he said, but no one disputes that his comments were egregious and wrong....

By: Jamiel Lynch & Kate Sullivan – cnn.com – June 11, 2019 Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed a bill into law that requires someone convicted of a sex offense against a child under the age of 13 to begin chemical castration a month before being released from custody. The law requires individuals convicted of such an offense to...

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – May 24, 2019 If there’s one thing everyone knows about modern politics, it’s that the key to the next election and the longer-term trends beyond is the rising tide of younger voters. We’ve become used to the idea that the young—more progressive in their values and more Democratic in their voting habits—are the future, and...

By: Ryan W. Miller – usatoday.com – May 27, 2019 Big mountain climber Adrian Ballinger guides novice climbers to the tallest peaks in the world and has summited Everest eight times in eleven attempts. He says athletic ability alone won’t guarantee success. Time A British climber who collapsed on the descent from Mount Everest’s summit became the latest in a string of...

By: Raymond J. March – blog.independent.org – May 15, 2019 When he first took office, President Trump pledged to eliminate 75 to 80 percent of all Food and Drug Administration regulations. A recent deregulatory effort is a small step in this direction. It also serves as a comical (and a little concerning) example of how far the agency’s regulatory authority extends....

By: Sonja Sharp – latimes.com – May 22, 2019 Beverly Hills has long been anything but a smoker’s paradise. The city was the first in California to ban smoking inside restaurants and most public places, back in 1987, and added outdoor venues to the list in 2007. Now it is poised to enact what officials say is the most stringent tobacco...

By: Marie Patino – bloomberg.com – May 20, 2019 Uneasiness and pessimism abound among the majority of the world’s population. Deloitte has released its Global Millennial Survey of 13,416 Millennials (born between 1983 and 1994) spread across 42 countries and 3,009 Gen Z respondents (born between 1995 and 2002) from 10 countries. The firm has conducted the survey for the past...

By: Caroline Kelly – cnn.com – May 16, 2019 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into law a controversial abortion bill that could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison. “Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, a bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the Legislature,” said Ivey, a Republican,...