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May 15, 2018
Kelvey Vander Hart

Liberal Columnist Admits Abortion Is Essential to Planned Parenthood
The narrative commonly pushed by Planned Parenthood is that abortions only account for a tiny percentage of the services they provide; typically, the statistic cited is 3 percent. However, a pro-Planned Parenthood op-ed recently published in The New York Times went off script and inadvertently admitted that, regardless of percentages, abortions are central to the organization’s functioning.[...]
May 11, 2018
Thomas Valentine

Mitch McConnell Is Doing One Thing Right — And It May Save His Legacy
Over the years, Beltway insiders and the media have built a myth around Mitch McConnell as a master tactician and strategist who both sides agree is a formidable force in Congress. For the most part, it’s just not true. For all his decades in the Senate and years in Senate leadership, McConnell has only one major legislative achievement: tax reform. The rest of the battles (Obamacare and Obamacare repeal, defunding Planned Parenthood, etc.) have resulted in failures where McConnell was unable to hold his caucus together or thwart the Democrats' agenda. And he’s undeniably a card-carrying member of the swamp, notorious for working against conservatives in Republican primary races. He was booed at the 2016 Republican National Convention.[...]
May 10, 2018
Ross Hougham

When Ivory Towers Crumble: A Christian Call for Political Action
It’s a sad day when practice is held hostage to theory, when goodness is crippled by perfection. In our ivory towers, presbyteries, and libraries, we parse truth and dream of the good life. We paint pictures of a world as it was intended to be, driven by faith and true love, and subject to a higher Order within which we flourish according to the fullness of our nature.[...]
May 9, 2018
Karen R. Effrem, MD

“Stunning” Report: Parkland Superintendent Misled Public About Shooter’s Past
Despite statements to the contrary by Broward County, Fla., Superintendent Robert Runcie and Sheriff Scott Israel, it has now been reported by WLRN that the Parkland school shooter, Nikolas Cruz, had in fact been involved in the controversial PROMISE school discipline program. PROMISE, launched in 2013, stands for Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports and Education.[...]
May 8, 2018
Jonathan Decker

D.C.’s Uber Tax Proves Again that Big Government Is Terrible
As Washington, D.C. residents and commuters are well aware, the D.C. Metro system is nothing short of a national disgrace. It is plainly embarrassing that a country built on free enterprise and housing the most productive workers in the entire world could, right in its capital city, possess such a disastrous, government-run transportation network.[...]