Written by Steve Goreham
In a Twitter battle last week, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) criticized Elon Musk for accepting billions of dollars in government support. The exchange erupted over Sanders’ new bill to impose a wealth tax on Musk and other billionaires. But most of the payments received by Musk’s companies came from electric vehicle and solar energy programs that Sanders, green advocates and state governments established to promote green energy.
The coronavirus pandemic caused the stock market to plunge in February and March of this year.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alternative and Renewable Fuel, American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, Elon Musk, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Joe Biden, Kirsten Gillibrand, Los Angeles Times, SolarCity, Solving the Climate Crisis, Tesla Motors, Twitter, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
Climate Change, Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
August 14, 2020 6:00 AM |
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Written by Dr. Paul Kengor
Last weekend I overheard two recent grads (both musicians) discussing America’s greatest composers. The usual names were raised: Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein, Sousa … Foster.
“Who?” said one.
“Stephen Foster,” replied the other.
Only one knew who Foster was, and neither knew he was from Pittsburgh. Both, ironically, recently spent a lot of time in Oakland, where the Stephen Foster statue once stood outside the Carnegie.
That statue, depicting Foster above a banjo-strumming Black man, representative of his song “Uncle Ned,” was removed in April 2018 after a contentious debate.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, Bernstein, Columbus, Copland, Dr. Paul Kengor, Flinn, Foster, George Washington, Gershwin, Giuseppe Moretti, Highland Park, John F. Kennedy, KKK, Lenin, Lincoln, Margaret Sanger, Oh! Susannah!, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sousa, St. Junipero Serra, statues, Stonewall Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, the Confederacy, Ulysses S. Grant
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 18, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
When was the last time we saw governments embrace the violent, racialist political agenda of a specific racist organization and make the citizenry obey it by force of law while exempting its adherents from the actual laws on the books? If you are conjuring up images of the KKK during the Jim Crow days in the South, you are not missing anything. So why is this suddenly OK when it comes to an organization that names itself Black Lives Matter?… Continue Reading
Tags: Allyson Rowen Taylor, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Conservative Review, Daniel Greenfield, Daniel Horowitz, David Duke, E Pluribus Unum, Facebook, Jewish Lives Matter, Jews, Jim Crow, KKK, Louis Farrakhan, Nazis, neo-nazis, New York Times, NYPD, Palestinians, Rodney King, sin, StandWithUs, the Constitution, the South
Federal Issues, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 13, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by John A. Sparks
Sometimes, the facts of a case have an emotional appeal in addition to a strong constitutional basis. Espinoza v. Montana certainly qualifies.
Kendra Espinoza, a hard working (three jobs) and determined single mom, decided to take her two daughters out of the local public schools and enroll them in Stillwater Christian School in Kalispell, Montana. She explained that she “wanted them to be able to read the Bible and be taught how to pray, and taught from that faith-based perspective.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Anti Christian Hate, Brett Kavanaugh, Christian school, Christian schools, Clarence Thomas, Constitution, Espinoza v. Montana, First Amendment, government mandated religion, John Roberts, Kendra Espinoza, Montana, Neil Gorsuch, religious liberty, Samuel Alito, School vouchers, SCOTUS, Stillwater Christian School, the Bible, Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, U.S. Supreme Court
Judicial Branch, Religious Liberty | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 11, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
Tweeting out “Law and Order!” every few days with an exclamation mark is OK, but it’s little solace to this country when we are actually suffering from the most widespread and protracted period of anarchy and violence in the modern era. It’s time for President Donald Trump to act on law and order, push a winning legislative and budgetary agenda with safety and security as its cornerstone, and communicate those ideas every day to the silent majority looking to the president to fight back.… Continue Reading
Tags: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Daniel Horowitz, Donald Trump, Gang violence, George Floyd, Gun control, illegal aliens, Johnson v. U.S, Marxism, Mekhi James, National Guard, Neil Gorsuch, sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, The Armed Career Criminal Act
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
June 25, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by John Hinderaker
One of the most pernicious phenomena of modern times is the collusive lawsuit. This is how it works: a left-wing organization sues a government agency that is also controlled by the left. The lawsuit alleges that the agency is obliged to do something that the agency would like to do, but the Democrats can’t get it passed. Then the parties–supposedly adverse, but actually in collusion–“settle” the case by having the agency agree to do what it wanted to do all along.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
In a shocking 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, based on “sexual orientation,” LGBT individuals are entitled to protection against workplace discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Joining Monte Larrick for a jam-packed discussion of this ruling and its ramifications is Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth and The Center for Morality.
Monte and Peter explore the possible changes Illinoisans can expect as a result of the court’s misguided decision and they specifically address how private sector businesses, churches, Christian schools, and faith-based organizations could be impacted.… Continue Reading
Written by David Limbaugh
The left’s position on the nation’s proper response to the pandemic, though shrouded in the language of compassion, is incoherent and morally repugnant virtue signaling.
Since this calamity began, many national Democratic leaders, the left-wing media and various never-Trumpers have been more interested in smearing President Donald Trump — no change there — than helping to solve the myriad problems caused by the coronavirus.
They wanted it both ways. President Trump was doing too much, and he wasn’t doing enough.… Continue Reading
Written by Jerry Newcombe
Worldviews have consequences. The pandemic that grips the whole world is symptomatic of the deadly grip that the ungodly leadership in China holds over a wide populous (including tens of millions of Chinese Christians).
The coronavirus did not just come out of nowhere. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims that it came out of the wet markets of Wuhan, a city of about 11 million people. But there is evidence that it may have originated in a biolab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.… Continue Reading
Tags: American values, Chinese Communist Party, COVID–19, Donald J. Trump, Earth Control Committee, Gary Bauer, Jerry Newcombe, Mao Zedong, Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Education, Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
May 1, 2020 4:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Two theories are circulating about the origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The media are still selling the idea that it probably arose from an infected bat at an outdoor live animal food market in Wuhan. That’s also the Chinese Communist Party’s line.
The media don’t want people thinking that communist researchers at the Wuhan Virology Institute’s BSL-4 lab might have been directly responsible.
However, a plausible scenario is that the virus was, indeed, cooked up in the lab.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Anand Giridharadas, Ayanna Pressley, Bernie Sanders, Chinese Communist Party, Clare Lopez, Coronavirus, COVID–19, Democrat Party, Facebook, Green New Deal, impeachment, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, Nancy Pelosi, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization, Wuhan Virology Institute
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
April 29, 2020 8:00 AM |
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