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When the African-American police chief of Dallas, David Brown, revealed on July 8, 2016 that the sniper who killed five officers and injured another seven the night before was “upset about Black Lives Matter,” some observers began to realize that BLM did more than just arrange vigils where people could hold candles and sing, after […]

The story behind the boy who hugged Bernie  July 15, 2016 I’ve interviewed plenty of kids before. Some are A-OK being in front of the camera — they just pretend it’s invisible. Some get camera-shy, looking at their parents frantically with a deer-in-the-headlights sort of look as they hope to say the right words. In […]

Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published at the American Spectator. I was attending a graduation party Sunday afternoon when a former student asked for my thoughts on the shooting in Orlando. We both expressed our obvious horror at the immediate inhumanity: the dead, the maimed, the agony of the families, the callousness, the monstrousness. […]

WASHINGTON– College students were among the crowd of over 1,000 attendees at Friday’s Road to Majority conference, a weekend-long event that was sponsored by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump headlined the event at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, prompting many supporters to sport their red “Make America Great Again” hats, as well as their Trump-themed graphic […]

The wife of the socialist candidate promising free college is being blamed for closing down a college in Vermont. Burlington College is going out of business, thanks to debt incurred under the leadership of its former president Jane Sanders, also known as “educator” Dr. Jane Sanders. Alluding to the “Feel the Bern” rallying cry for […]

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school near you: “Modernized career technical education (CTE)” (Do Instagram photos, tweets, facebook updates and the ability to Google oneself count?); […]

George Halvorson, former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, and John Pepper, formerly of Procter & Gamble, claim that pre-K education gains are essential to developing America’s future workforce. Halvorson avers that the “number one predictor for who is going to be in prison at age 18 is the number of words in their vocabulary in kindergarten.” […]

Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the American Spectator’s website. Some two thousand years ago, the Messiah journeyed into Jerusalem. He came as the people’s redeemer, to expiate their sins. As he drew near Bethpage and Bethany, he sent two disciples before him to fetch a tethered colt. He would mount the colt and […]

Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Dr. Everett Piper said as much during his interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. When Thomas asked Piper about President Barack Obama’s policies against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL), he went back to the general Middle East conflict, “Christians are being beheaded in the Middle East […]

Now that the media have helped establish Trump as the runaway frontrunner, these reporters and news organizations are starting to have buyer’s remorse, comparing him to Hitler, Kim Jung Il, and Stalin. Harvard professor Danielle Allen penned a column for The Washington Post entitled, “The moment of truth: We must stop Trump.” “I believe that Hillary […]

On Saturday night, a lunatic by the name of Jason Brian Dalton went on a weekend killing spree in Michigan. The next day, contradicting the official Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The pope doesn’t have to worry about Dalton getting the electric chair or a lethal injection. […]

Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in The Observer and appears courtesy of the author and the Louis D. Brandeis Center. When New Jersey lawyer Stephen Flatow sent an email to some history professors earlier this month he may have hoped for a different response. The American Historical Association was preparing to vote on a […]