Maggie Gallagher, Author at The National Pulse

Analysis

City Bans Michigan Farmer from Market for Refusing to Host Gay Wedding

Stephen Tennes, a Michigan orchard and farm owner, has filed a lawsuit against the city of East Lansing for refusing to permit him to sell his fruits and vegetables at a city-sponsored…

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Culture

Melania Trump Comes Out — As a Catholic

Slovenia, where First Lady Melania Trump comes from, is a Catholic society. But Melania’s father was a Communist, so she wasn’t publicly baptized, and she didn’t receive her First Holy…

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Politics

Ron Paul Cheers Historic, New State Law Ending Taxes on Gold Coins

Arizona just became the second state, after Utah, to remove state income tax from gold and silver coins. Ron Paul, for one, is cheering: Every supporter of free markets should…

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Analysis

New Report: These 2 Cities Have Crippled the US Economy

A new study by University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley scholars Chiang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti suggests an economic villain shocking to the liberal imagination: San Francisco and…

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Politics

Justice Alito Warns Seminarians of Threats to Religious Liberty, Free Speech

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a south Jersey native and “something of a Philly boy” according to local news, spoke at the graduation of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese…

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Politics

BREAKING: Kentucky Court Delivers Victory for Christian in LGBT T-shirt Case

A Kentucky appeals court has just delivered a stunning blow to the ongoing effort to redefine opposition to same-sex marriage as a form of discrimination against gay people. Blaine Adamson is a Kentucky…

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Analysis

Dear John: A Letter to Kasich from GOP Voters

Dear John: You’re a good man. A dear man. A man I know will someday find someone to love you. But we thought we made it crystal clear in 2016:…

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Culture

How Is Trump Different from European Leaders? The Answer Is Simple…

With the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of France, the two most powerful leaders in Europe — Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel — now share a certain characteristic: they…

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Politics

Pay Attention to What President Trump Does Next on Religious Freedom

The mixed reviews of President Trump’s religious liberty executive order reflect two simple facts. First, by itself the order doesn’t do or change much. The ACLU tweeted that it had expected…

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Culture

Catholic Hospitals Join the Killing Fields of Europe

It seems impossible, but the board that controls 15 Catholic psychiatric hospitals owned by the Brothers of Charity in Belgium has just agreed to help kill patients because of “unbearable suffering.” “We…

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Culture

More Young Men Live with Parents than Wife, Says New Study

A new Census study shows one out of three millennials (age 18-34) are living with their parents. The majority of Americans (55 percent) no longer see getting married or having…

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Culture

Portland Cancels Annual Rose Parade Due to Left-Wing Death Threats

If you weren’t raised in Portland, Ore., as I was, you may not understand what a big deal this is. Portland is “the City of Roses” and for more than…

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Analysis

NEW VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Exec Haggles Over Price of Baby Brains, Lungs

The Center for Medical Progress has released another new video showing the head of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Pasadena, Calif., haggling over the price of baby body parts:…

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Politics

NEW POLL: Hillary Clinton Would Still Lose to President Trump

The Democrats, like moths to the flame, can’t help turning Hillary Clinton into a martyr-hero. In Manhattan, she gets rapturous applause every time she goes to the theater, which she has…

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Culture

Alarming New Report Reveals Christianity Under Attack Worldwide

In September 2008, a group of Islamists invaded the home of an Indonesian pastor, dragged him to the street, and demanded he convert to Islam. “When he refused, they cut off…

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Politics

Corruption, Common Core Highlight Wild Race to Replace Jeff Sessions

The new Republican governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, just set the date for the special election to fill Jeff Sessions’ old Senate seat: August 15. Let the games begin. It’s pure…

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Analysis

No Playground for Christian School? Even Liberal Justices Baffled by Court Case

Trinity Lutheran was supposed to be the first big test for newly seated Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: a religious liberty case which revolves on whether the government may deny…

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Politics

Democrats Now 0-for-2 Against Trump

The Democrats, riding a wave of liberal anger and angst in the era of Donald Trump, hoped to begin picking off the GOP majority in Congress early. Their first fail…

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Analysis

Is Free College Really “Free”? New N.Y. Offer Could Be Risky for Students

Private colleges in New York are worried. They should be. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s newly passed legislation — offering free tuition at state universities and community colleges to students in families making…

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