Did the NBA/NCAA Attack on North Carolina Just Backfire?

A new Civitas poll shows an astonishing turnaround for the courageous North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory — a 9-point swing now putting him up two points after being down seven in the last poll. As the sports-entertainment complex seeks to shame good, loving people in North Carolina who object to permitting transgender biological males to freely invade the privacy of girls in public school showers by dubbing them haters and bigots unworthy of being treated like any other American state, it looks like the overkill may be provoking a swing in McCrory’s favor. Or it could be the work of

Franklin Graham’s Call To Arms

An extraordinary statement was issued last week by a renowned leader of Christian evangelicals, Reverend Franklin Graham. His statement should be considered as a thunderclap to the Republican Party. The GOP is already at loggerheads with its more populist economic supporters in the Tea Party. It has been unable to recreate the kind of message that Ronald Reagan delivered, which brought millions of blue collar workers back to the party’s banner. Its relationship with social conservatives has been strained over bad judicial nominations, the lack of real resistance to the revolutionary change in the definition of marriage and, most recently, the

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Billy Graham’s Son Turns Against Trump

Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham and head of Samaritan’s Purse, seemed to be a fan of Donald Trump for the last couple months, writing posts on Facebook praising him for “shaking up” the GOP. But now that Rev. Graham is finding out more about Trump’s positions, specifically his comments saying Kentucky clerk Kim Davis should obey the “law of the land” on same-sex marriage, he feels differently about the Donald: [facebook url=”https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/1001622503227264″] Rev. Graham certainly holds a lot of sway with people of faith, so does this mark the beginning of the end of evangelicals’ flirt with