Steve Scalise

When Love Grows Cold: The Rise of Political Violence

David E. Smith — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:01 +0000

Written by David E. Smith

The growing political violence in the U.S. is a serious concern that threatens both the stability of our republic and the safety of its citizens. What we’re witnessing today is not merely partisan animosity, but open hostility — a clear sign of our culture’s moral and spiritual decline, which undermines the very foundation of a civilized society.

Just look at the violent mobs that recently targeted ICE offices and federal agents — torching vehicles, smashing windows, and assaulting officers who enforce our nation’s immigration laws.… Continue Reading

Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?

David E. Smith — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:00:01 +0000

Written by David E. Smith

Pritzker publicly calls for “mass protests, mobilization, and disruption”

After reading and listening to almost a week’s worth of commentary about Gov. JB Pritzker’s campaign speech to New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday, April 27, 2025, and despite a wise recommendation to ignore him, some problems need to be tackled. His militant comments and calls for mass protests against Republicans in general — and the Trump administration specifically — stirred significant controversy on both sides of the political spectrum.

Big Tech’s Masters of the Universe Fueling the Marxist Revolution and Destroying America

David E. Smith — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:00:37 +0000

Written by Robert Knight

Big Tech was on the hot seat again last Thursday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified again before Congress, this time in the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee virtual hearing. The three men were the essence of cool. Nothing ruffled them. Well, almost.

In fact, their cool, almost robotic articulation was unsettling, though it contrasted well with what unfolded at the other big Washington event on Thursday — President Biden’s first press conference.… Continue Reading

ABC News Vilifies Everyday Americans with “Hate Group” Headline

David E. Smith — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:30:27 +0000

Written by Monica Burke

[Last] week, an ABC News headline referred to Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit committed to defending religious liberty in the legal system, as an “anti-LGBT hate group.” ABC reported on a speech delivered by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the following manner:

Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an ‘anti-LGBT hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California.

Guidestar to Remove ‘Hate Group’ Labels on Conservative Groups for ‘Time Being’

David E. Smith — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:00:21 +0000

Written by Rachel del Guidice

The nation’s leading source of information on U.S. charities announced it will modify its use of a controversial “hate group” designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.

“We have decided to remove the SPLC annotations from these 46 organizations for the time being,” read a statement posted Friday on GuideStar’s website. “This change will be implemented during the week of June 26, 2017. In the meantime, we will make this information available to any user on request.”… Continue Reading

Evangelicals Most in Favor of Pastors Preaching Politics From Pulpit: Poll

David E. Smith — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:00:09 +0000

Written by Brandon Showalter

In a Feb. 10 Morning Consult/Politico poll, 47 percent of evangelicals said they support allowing religious groups to engage in political activity, whereas 34 percent do not. By contrast, 54 percent of Catholics and 69 percent of Jews oppose such participation by religious groups.

The survey also shows that 40 percent of evangelical voters believe that churches should be permitted to endorse political candidates, a higher figure than all other religious groups polled, while 41 percent said such endorsements should not be allowed.… Continue Reading

Pastors to Protest IRS Restrictions on Speaking About Politics

David E. Smith — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:00:15 +0000

Written by Anugrah Kumar

Pastors across the country will protest Internal Revenue Service restrictions on them not to talk politics in the church as they observe the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, days after the introduction of the Free Speech Fairness Act in the U.S. House to reinstate pastors’ and churches’ rights to speak freely.

“The IRS has no business acting as the speech police of any non-profit organization, as its many scandals over recent years have made clear,” said Erik Stanley, senior counsel of the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom, which started Pulpit Freedom Sunday in 2008.

Not Doubling Down; A Whole New Deck

David E. Smith — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:00:38 +0000

Written by Michael Medved

Unfortunately, too many conservatives give the president credit he doesn’t deserve regarding his State of the Union agenda.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), U.S. House leaders Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), have all suggested that Barack Obama has “doubled down” on his agenda. The blackjack definition for “doubling down” is to “hold your existing cards while doubling your existing bet with only one more card.”

But in his State of the Union, Obama requested virtually all new cards, raising issues he and his party never mentioned in the recent campaign:

A tax hike of $320 billion?

President Obama Retreads the Same Failed Agenda

David E. Smith — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:01:13 +0000

Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise today released the following statement after President Obama’s State of the Union address.

“It’s fitting that President Obama gave his State of the Union on Mardi Gras Day, since he’s spent the last four years throwing record levels of taxpayer money at failed federal programs like cheap beads at a parade,” Scalise said. “If higher taxes and more government spending were the solution to our economic woes, our economy would be humming on all cylinders, but all the middle class has to show for the last four years is a hangover of record debt and a weak economy that hasn’t produce jobs for hard-working families.