Since everything in America has to come back to race, Democrats are accusing Senate Republicans of intentionally delaying the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch because she is black. In the allusive words of Senator Dick Durbin (D., IL), Republicans are putting Loretta Lynch “on the back of the bus”: “Loretta Lynch, the first […]
Continue reading →Aaron Schock, a House Republican from Illinois, has resigned effective March 31 after an investigation into his requests for federal reimbursement uncovered multiple discrepancies, especially concerning his mileage expenses: Schock billed the federal government and his campaign for logging roughly 170,000 miles on his personal car from January 2010 through July 2014. But when he […]
Continue reading →In 1949, George Orwell’s publishers sent his old French teacher, Aldous Huxley, a copy of Orwell’s new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Then Huxley sent Orwell a letter, both congratulating him for his fine work and gently criticizing his vision of the future: Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning […]
Continue reading →This is the fifth installment in the “Whatever” series on a biblical view of the arts, drawn from Philippians 4:8. If you missed the last four articles, you can read them here: Whatever is True, Whatever is Honorable, Whatever is Just, and Whatever is Pure. Whatever is Lovely It would be easy to assume that no […]
Continue reading →In the wake of the email scandal that Hillary Clinton went through, the White House is taking steps to ensure that Obama never has to go through a similar scandal. By releasing all non-classified emails, ramping up transparency, and going above and beyond to operate within the law? No. Unfortunately, the White House is taking […]
Continue reading →A new act in the Georgia legislature, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), was designed to protect the right of religious people to exercise their beliefs without molestation from the government. But some critics are condemning the act, saying its wording would actually protect any behavior a person claimed was connected to his religion—like child […]
Continue reading →The famous fashion duo, and one-time homosexual power couple, Dolce & Gabbana, have come out recently in an interview with Italian magazine Panorama—against gay marriage, gay adoption, and non-traditional families: According to translations, the pair — who dated for 23 years and broke up in 2005 — stated that children born through IVF are “children […]
Continue reading →As recently as last year, the FCC did not have any plans to ensure Net Neutrality through internet regulation. Nope. Not even an inkling. So why is the FCC suddenly desirous to bring the entire internet under rules designed to break up phone company monopolies? According to some in the FCC, this shift in policy […]
Continue reading →There are times when my wife and I can’t get on quite the same schedule, and we have to travel in two cars to the same destination at different times in a single day. But I don’t think we would ever fly on two different planes to the same location on the same day. That’s […]
Continue reading →If you were to base your understanding of what’s wrong with America on the media, what do you think you would cite as America’s No. 1 problem? Racism? Global Warming? Terrorism? The economy? Immigration? Health Care? Nope. According to a recent Gallup poll, the No. 1 problem with America is … government: Government has been […]
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