[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E arlier this year, we learned of the Chinese Communist Party’s intention to undertake its own, state-approved “translation” of the Bible. Evidently, the Christian Scriptures are not as amenable to CCP orthodoxy as the Politburo would like. According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Party assembled a group of obedient

[ad_1] In 2006, long before she was a judge, Amy Barrett agreed to let her name appear with many of her neighbors in a newspaper insert under the statement, “We, the following citizens of Michiana, oppose abortion on demand and support the right to life from fertilization to natural death.” The insert was placed by

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) When invited at the first presidential debate to confirm whether he hoped to expand the Supreme Court in order to pack it with Democrats, Joe Biden explained that he

[ad_1] The Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports:  Senate Democrats say they want to avoid a replay of the bitter fighting that characterized Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Senate confirmation hearings, which centrist former  Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) thought cost them their reelection bids that year. […] “I’m sick and tired of

[ad_1] The Washington Monument viewed from the Lincoln Memorial ( lucky-photographer/Getty Images) David Bozell’s group operates the most engaged conservative page in Facebook’s history. He has some thoughts on the reasons for its success. By likes, comments, shares, and reactions, Facebook-owned Crowdtangle cites Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, David Harris Jr., Franklin Graham, and Blue Lives

[ad_1] President Trump approaches reporters as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) As usual, it was the president’s bluster that aided the media. It was 90 seconds of a 90-minute brawl. But for the media, it was Charlottesville all over again. As usual, it was the president’s bluster

[ad_1] NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W e need to blow up the traditional presidential-debate formats — not because there was too much mayhem in last night’s contest, but because the mayhem wasn’t constructive enough. The Commission on Presidential Debates is now apparently considering allowing moderators to cut candidates’ mics mid-debate. As with most issues pertaining to

[ad_1] Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) questions witnesses during a Senate Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2020. (Toni L. Sandys/Reuters) A new survey of likely voters in five key swing states found that respondents, especially nonwhite Americans, tend to favor expanded school-choice options. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the country, school

[ad_1] James Comey, former director of the FBI, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/Reuters) Former FBI director James Comey testified in a Senate hearing on Wednesday that if the source for the Steele dossier was a Russian agent, that could make the source either “more” or

[ad_1] Former FBI director James Comey speaks about his book during an onstage interview with Axios Executive Editor Mike Allen at George Washington University, April 30, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Former FBI director James Comey claimed on Wednesday that he learned of various details related to the FBI’s investigation in to collusion between Russia and the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The fact that I believe the debate was unwatchable last night does not mean I believe President Trump did not have some good moments. And the fact that I

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic nominee Joe Biden raised a record-breaking $3.8 million in one hour during the first presidential debate against President Trump on Tuesday night, according to the former vice president’s campaign.

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a daily briefing following the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City, July 13, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Harris and Cuomo adopt a sinister narrative, sowing distrust toward any COVID cure. The media and Democrats have focused much of their criticism of President Donald Trump’s handling of

[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) During the first presidential debate on Tuesday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pushed back against President Trump’s claims that Democrats want socialized medicine in America, saying that he himself

[ad_1] Democratic nominee Joe Biden participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Morry Gash/Pool via Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden refused to say during Tuesday night’s presidential debate whether he would support adding justices to the Supreme Court or ending the filibuster

[ad_1] You knew it would come to this. The push is on in Canada to persuade medical schools to teach students how to euthanize patients — that is, to commit homicide — known euphemistically as medical assistance in dying (MAID). Now, the Canadian Medical Educational Journal lists several suggestions on how to persuade medical schools

[ad_1] The rank distortions of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s entirely conventional view on stare decisis (adherence to precedent) are already getting tiresome, but let’s give it another go. In New York magazine, law professor Barbara McQuade contends that Judge Barrett “is right of Antonin Scalia.” In particular, she argues that whereas Scalia “was willing to

[ad_1] 1. Erika Bachiochi: Amy Coney Barrett: A New Feminist Icon  2. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput: When the Dogma Lives Loudly 3. Ramesh: Amy Coney Barrett Is No Threat to Obamacare 4. Mary-Rose Verret: Amy Coney Barrett Breaks the Real Glass Ceiling 5. Eugene Rivers & co.: A Black Defense of Freedom of Conscience and Amy

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) At The Atlantic, Lawrence Goldstone argues in favor of Democrats packing the Supreme Court. Goldstone contends correctly that Congress can set the number of justices to whatever it wishes. But then he tries to pull a fast one by asserting that Congress can limit the terms of Supreme Court appointees

[ad_1] (eranicle/Getty Images) Today, we learn that the U.S. trade deficit increased by more than expected in August. Why the confusion and mystery concerning America’s negative external balance? After all, the U.S. has run a negative external balance every year since 1975. The reason for that is simple. The negative external balance is “made in

[ad_1] Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The big New York Times piece on Donald Trump’s tax returns, obviously timed to feed Joe Biden some attack lines entering the first debate, is part of a campaign-season tradition. Unfortunately for Trump’s critics, that is a tradition of failure. The story has two main

[ad_1] (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) If you don’t want people to use tax credits to avoid taxes, then don’t write into the law tax credits that enable people to avoid taxes. Welcome to “The Tuesday,” a newsletter that comes out on Tuesdays. It is about politics, language, culture, grammatical hobgoblins, political hobgoblins, sundry hobgoblins not easily categorized,

[ad_1] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, May 1, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Pro-life Senator Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) said on Monday that she thinks the likelihood of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal, is “very minimal.” Ernst’s comments during

[ad_1] Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks to the 2020 Republican National Convention from the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., August 25, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron agreed on Monday to release the recording of grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case, following a court order. Taylor, an African American EMT

[ad_1] A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It has not served to make health insurance more affordable and attractive. This November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of California v. Texas, which centers on the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable

[ad_1] Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale addresses the crowd before President Donald Trump rallies with supporters in Manchester, N.H., August 15, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Police arrested Brad Parscale, President Trump’s former campaign manager, on Sunday at his home in Fort Lauderdale after his wife called authorities and said she was afraid he was suicidal and had

[ad_1] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2016 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Democratic candidates and causes have been flooded with small contributions totaling more than $300 million since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on September 18, according to ActBlue. Liberal donors had already smashed the previous record for most dollars raised in a

[ad_1] Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas (via Facebook) Lawrence Tabas insists he has no intention of disenfranchising the voters of Pennsylvania. Tabas, the state’s Republican Party chairman, said he isn’t planning a scheme where the GOP-led State Assembly – not voters – would choose Pennsylvania’s 20 electors. He hasn’t discussed such a strategy with

[ad_1] President Trump speaks during a discussion with state attorneys general on social media abuses at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) On Sunday, the D.C. district court handed down a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration’s TikTok ban order. The decision, which after being pushed back one week

[ad_1] Brian Stelter of CNN mingles at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) After defending the Steele dossier for years, Stelter claims he completely missed the latest report involving the man who served as Steele’s main source. Brian Stelter, CNN’s media reporter, claimed Monday that