Written by Robert Knight
Some things are wrong regardless of intent or a claimed level of authority. If laws conflict with the ultimate authority — God — they are invalid, as the great British legal scholar Blackstone (and later, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) observed.
In most situations, parents have the God-given right to direct their children’s upbringing. But there are limits to that authority, such as evidence of child abuse.
Exhibit A is the lawsuit by parents, doctors and lawyers who are trying to get the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Associated Press, COVID–19, Gender Dysphoria, James M. Moody Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., parental rights, Roy Cooper, The Daily Signal, U.S. Supreme Court, Walt Heyer, William Blackstone
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | May 20, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on LGBTQ Movement Working to Transform Society in its Own Image
Written by Tim Graham
The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy?
The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14% of their sample expressed “a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources.” By contrast, 46% have little or no confidence at all in the information they receive from national news organizations.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Press Institute, Associated Press, Brian Stelter, Chris Licht, CNN, David Bauder, Donald Trump, Katherine Maher, Michael Bolden, National Public Radio, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 3, 2024 11:00 AM | Comments Off on Little Trust for the ‘Democracy-Saving’ Media
Written by David E. Smith
The Biden Administration’s intentional and flagrant disregard for national security has dramatically fostered and escalated an ongoing crisis at our southern border as record levels of illegal immigrants and deadly drugs pour into our nation. We also cannot overstate the egregious problem of human trafficking that has exploded in scope over the past few years.
Additionally, more than a few political pundits have expressed their grave concerns about the alarming number of military-age men streaming in through the southern U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Associated Press, Border Crisis, border security, continuing resolution, Darin LaHood, Donald Trump, H.R. 2, Israel, Joe Biden, Mary Miller, Mike Bost, Mike Johnson, Secure the Borders Act, Taiwan, Ukraine
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | January 20, 2024 7:54 AM | Comments Off on Suicide by “Migration”
Written by Tim Graham
Associated Press reporters were blunt about their latest poll:
“Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term.”
In the poll, fully 77% said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years, as he would turn 86 in the White House. Naturally, 89% of Republicans agreed — but so did 69% of Democrats and, most importantly for the general election, 74% of independents.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2024 Election, Associated Press, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Franklin Foer, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, Joe Biden's Age Will Be an Issue in 2024, Karine Jean-Pierre, London Daily Mail, Mary Katharine Ham, Mitch McConnell, Rob Crilly, Ronald Reagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Strom Thurmond
Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | September 2, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Age Will Be an Issue in 2024
Written by Peter Heck
Several years ago, the graduating class at the high school where I teach asked me to give their commencement address. In hindsight, I should have known better than to stray from the tried and tested formula for graduation speakers. Young, brash, and always eager to say something that would be remembered, I made the fateful decision to stray from the culturally approved list of platitudes that everyone knows you are supposed to tell high school graduates:
- “You can do anything you set your mind to.”
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Tags: Associated Press, Atlantic, Bethany Mandel, C.S. Lewis, Daily Caller, Fox News, Huffington Post, New York Post, New York Times, Today Show, Yahoo News
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 1, 2022 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Sorry Progressives, Motherhood Is Still The Ultimate Career
Written by Robert Knight
We’re clearly living in a time of “doublethink.”
That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Anyone not going along with this was in for a rough time, including the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith.
The psychological name for this is cognitive dissonance. One form of it is accepting as reality something that clearly conflicts with reason, sensory perception and common sense.… Continue Reading
Tags: Associated Press, Bill Lee, Centers for Disease Control, Critical Race Theor, Demi Lovato, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, gender confirming, George Orwell, KidsPost, science deniers, The Washington Post
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 24, 2021 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Parents Must Push Back Against Progressives’ Doublethink
Written by Tim Graham
President Biden’s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media’s job is to hold presidents accountable.
Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: “You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now; this isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.”… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Associated Press, Barack Obama, CBS News, Cecilia Vega, CNN, Fox News Channel, immigration, Janet Rodriguez, Jim Acosta, Jim Crow, Joe Biden, Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Welker, Nancy Cordes, NBC, Peter Doocy, Press Conference, Seung Min Kim, Univision, Washington Post, Yamiche Alcindor, Zeke Miller
Media Watch | David E. Smith | March 27, 2021 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Pro-Biden Press Corps Is Deeply Embarrassing
Written by Micah Clark
You may have noticed that several news commentators attached the label “moderate” to former New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg last week when he filed papers to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
A news story appearing at Town Hall.com this week raises some questions about the notion that Bloomberg is a middle of the road Democrat. It points to a lawsuit against the former mayor in which an employee told him that she was pregnant. … Continue Reading
Written by L. Brent Bozell
In the age of Trump, the American media insist that freedom of speech is in danger because they somehow consider mocking journalists a suppression of free speech. Now imagine if America had a law where you couldn’t mock Christian doctrines without facing a fine. The press would again denounce the curtailment of free speech but now you’d also hear the cries of “theocracy!”
And yet the First Amendment worshipers were missing on Oct.… Continue Reading
Tags: Aisha, Associated Press, Brendan O'Neill, Donald Trump, Erik Voeten, European Court of Human Rights, Fox News Channel, Los Angeles Times, Muhammad, Sekmadienis, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tucker Carlson, USA Today
Islam & Sharia, Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 6, 2018 7:00 PM | Comments Off on Europe Suppresses Speech for Muslim ‘Feelings’