• Hugh Hewitt: The Sacred Fire of Liberty
    May 24 2024

    In just a few days time, we will be marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day—the invasion of Normandy.

    130,000 Allies crossed the channel that day. Among them. 54,000 Americans. 2,700 died that day alone.

    We’ve called them “the greatest generation” for a reason.

    But the spirit that motivated them has been exemplified by those that had gone before them … and those that have served so faithfully after them as well.

    Their sacrifice is a testament to the uniqueness of our nation.

    This legacy of those who have paid the ultimate price ought to renew our commitment to what George Washington called, “the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

    This Memorial Day weekend, let’s express our gratitude to those who have served and those have died for us.

    And: Let us renew our own commitment to what our first President called, “the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty.”

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  • Carol Platt Liebau: No Longer Trusting the "Experts"
    May 23 2024

    Last week, Americans learned just how badly the scientific so-called “experts” mishandled the covid pandemic. Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released the transcript of an interview with Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health.

    Collins admitted he knew of “no science or evidence” to support the six-foot social distancing guideline imposed during covid.

    This is a scandal. The six-feet-of-separation rule had damaging real life consequences. It made it impossible for schools to reopen, because teachers’ unions insisted the guideline be observed. Businesses suffered untold costs trying to follow the guidelines.

    Yet Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci and others who imposed this regime have escaped all accountability. That, too, is a massive scandal.

    The countless Americans who suffered, personally and economically, deserve better. This abuse of scientific authority must never happen again.

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  • Albert Mohler: Target Tones Down Pride Month Displays
    May 22 2024

    Many of you remember about a year ago when Target began pushing LGBTQ merchandise in anticipation of last year’s June Pride Month.

    What they were selling was offensive and became a matter of controversy.

    This year, Target is having to retreat a bit. The recent headline in USA Today, was this, “Target Scales Back It’s Pride Month Collection in Stores.”

    But, note: Target is making a marketing point here, not a moral point.

    They paid a price in 2023.

    But Target remains intent on bulldozing through the moral code of Western civilization.

    When you’re pushing moral change, once you transgress a boundary, you take, say, two or three yards, you retreat a yard and then you press forward again, two or three yards, you retreat a yard. This is the way the moral revolutionaries press their agenda.

    It looks like they’re backing up, but they’re only doing so in order to press forward.

    It’s one of the reasons that conservatives, and in this case Christians, often come out on the losing end of this kind of headline.

    Don’t be fooled.

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  • Ed Morrissey: The Grotesque Moral Inversion of the International Criminal Court
    May 21 2024

    If it seems perverse that the ICC would target the victim nation of an invasion by a terror network that perpetrated the worst organized atrocities in decades—then you're just paying attention. But it gets worse than that, as prosecutor Karim Khan's demand actually validates Hamas' human-shield strategies.

    To claim that Israel is responsible for civilian deaths in Gaza, rather than the terror network committing the actual war crime of staging military/terror operations in civilian areas, is a grotesque moral inversion. This validates terrorism and Hamas' human-shield strategies, making it impossible to ever fight and defeat terror networks that attack established states.

    The ICC waited over seven months after October 7 to take any action against Hamas leadership despite the obvious evidence of atrocities. Now they want to make a moral equivalence between genocidal terrorism and legitimate armed defense. It’s patently outrageous, and does nothing but incentivize terror attacks on civilized nations.

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  • Jerry Bowyer: We Need New Leaders for a New Economy
    May 20 2024

    We just got the new unemployment claims and they’ve spiked up to the highest level in 18 months. Consumer confidence is down, and inflation is still above average.

    Yes, the stock market is up, but so are gold prices which suggests the markets are rising not on expectations of a good economy, but on expectations of the Fed going back to pumping money into markets.

    President Biden tries to blame corporate greed, but it’s government greed which is really to blame. As Milton Friedman said, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. That means that debasing the currency in order to feed greedy government is why we get less Snickers for our dollar. Want a strong economy? Get different leaders. The last time we had low growth and high inflation, was the ’70s. Carter blamed corporate greed. Reagan blamed government. America elected Reagan. He beat inflation and restored growth. Let's elect solid, pro-growth leaders in every branch of government and watch the economic growth miracle happen all over again.

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  • Ed Morrissey: CUNY Caves to the Death to America Crowd
    May 17 2024

    A law professor waved an American flag at a City University of New York protest—and got threats in response. Jeffrey Lax counterprotested this last week at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus organized by the Muslim Student Association. They called the flag a “fascist symbol,” a “Nazi flag,” and pledged to target Lax in future protests—as well as other “Zionist staff.”

    “These people hate America,” Lax said. “They want America destroyed.”

    Are they succeeding? Immediately after this incident, CUNY cited “security concerns” as they canceled two Hillel events on its campuses—celebrating Israel’s Memorial Day and then their Independence Day.

    In other words, CUNY caved to the radical mobs that want an end to America rather than stand up for those who wish to uphold our ideals in free speech and religious tolerance.

    If you didn’t hear about this, it’s because not a single American media outlet covered it. Not even the media in New York reported on the cancellation of two Jewish events as radical activists target campuses—and the American ideal.

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  • Jerry Bowyer: ESG is Anti-human
    May 16 2024

    The battle between red states and giant Wall Street firms pushing ESG—environmental, social and governance—investing looks on the surface like it’s just about the anti-fossil fuel agenda. But it’s really much deeper, it’s an anti-human life agenda. Blackrock’s CEO recently told the World Economic Forum (the great reset people) that depopulation is good for the economy:

    I can argue in the developed countries the big winners are countries that have shrinking populations … these countries will rapidly develop robotics and AI and technology….The paradigm of negative population growth is going to be changing, and the social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations.

    Blackrock and other enormous Wall Street Firms are members of a Net Zero business alliance which openly admits that their commitment to zero carbon emissions requires significant cutbacks in food production as well as population control, including half a billion fewer Africans in 2050. That's why they push abortion.

    ESG is—simply put—anti-human.

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  • Carol Platt Liebau: A Stain on America’s Rule of Law
    May 15 2024

    The Stormy Daniels “hush money” case against Donald Trump is an affront to our basic notions of American justice:

    • Gag orders are typically imposed to protect defendants and secure their right to an untainted jury. Here, the defendant—Trump—has been gagged, leaving him unable to defend himself.

    • Prosecutors are keeping the witness schedule secret until the eve of their testimony. That deprives the defense of the time needed to adequately prepare a cross examination.

    • Finally, Daniels’ seamy testimony inevitably prejudices the jury against Trump—and it’s not even relevant to his alleged crime!

    The end game is clear. Obtain a conviction of Donald Trump at any cost, —secure in the knowledge that when the verdict is overturned—and it will be—that will come after the election.

    This isn’t justice. This is banana republic politics. And it’s a stain on America’s rule of law.

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