By: Betsy Swan & Olivia Messer – thedailybeast.com – March 11, 2020 Last week, Republican members of Congress heard a sober warning in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill: There’s a good chance most people in the United States will eventually be exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to one former official. The assessment, from a former White House public-health official who...

By: Joy Pullmann – thefederalist.com – February 10, 2020 This week, House Democrats will reportedly pass a measure to lift the 1982 deadline on a feminist amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although the Supreme Court, legal scholars, and the U.S. Department of Justice have said the attempt is unconstitutional. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in the 1980s by a woman-led coalition...

By: Matt Sedensky & John Leicester – apnews.com – March 6, 2020 The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal from the World Health Organization for governments to pull out “all the stops” to slow the epidemic, as it drained color from India’s spring festivals, closed Bethlehem’s Nativity Church and blocked Italians from visiting elderly relatives in...

By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.com – March 3, 2020 Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel’s unprecedented third election yesterday and is expected to be able to form a ruling coalition quickly. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Joe Biden last night at campaign events in Dallas on the eve of Super Tuesday. And a tornado...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – March 3, 2020 We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that’s not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In addition to China, where the virus originated, major cities in Italy and Japan are in lockdown mode, and Japan has...

By: Ken Harrison – stream.org – February 18, 2020 When I was nineteen, I got a job at an underage nightclub working as a doorman. I had walked with the Lord my whole life, so this job was getting me an education in a world with which I was completely unfamiliar. The club was in a rough area of town, and...

By: Denis Prager – townhall.com – February 4, 2020 If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people would probably ask, “Do you believe in God?” The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today...

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – January 21, 2020 On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights. King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation. When...

By: John Zmirak – stream.org – December 31, 2019 It’s heartbreaking to watch. On Twitter, one Jewish American after another weighs in. They’re responding to the spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area. The worst, of course, was a machete rampage at a rabbi’s home. As the New York Post reports: Police have identified the man accused of...

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...