Politics

November 6, 2018

ICYMI: Planned Parenthood’s Massive Political Operation Is Done On Your Tax Dollars

By Dustin Siggins, The Stream - America’s largest abortion company also has a huge political operation. Its affiliated arms have pushed $20 million into this year’s midterms. They worked with three other groups for a combined $30 million towards liberal advocacy. And while legally Planned Parenthood’s $540 million-plus government teat is “separate” from the abortion giant’s political action.....

November 5, 2018

Politics: The Sad Death of “All Politics is Local”, by Telly Davidson

By Telly Davidson, The American Conservative - How did our federalist system give way to today's nationalized cable news-fueled smackdowns?...Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second Civil War”.....

November 5, 2018

Vote for the Party That Doesn’t Despise You, by Arnold Ahlert

By Arnold Ahlert, Patriot Post - If Democrats take the House tomorrow, Maxine Waters, who could be the next chair of the Financial Services Committee, revealed to Wall Street, banks, and insurance companies that she remains firmly wedded to the politics of victimization. “I have not forgotten you foreclosed on our houses,” she stated. “I have not forgotten that you undermined our communities. … What am I going to do to you? What I am going to do to you is fair. I’m going to do to you what you did to us.”

November 5, 2018

Crisis Magazine: How Many Migrants Can a Nation Absorb?

By John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine - The migrant caravan is like something out of a future, apocalyptic dystopia—or to go back in time, perhaps an image from Exodus—where thousands of men, women, and children trudge a thousand miles under the hot tropical sun across hot tarmac and dirt roads, hoping to just fall down on America’s doorstep, looking for opportunities not to be found in the failed, crumpled, venal, socialist states from which they hail.