In 1836, at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, a 28-year-old lawyer named Abraham Lincoln delivered one of his finest addresses. Lincoln condemned the sharp increase of mobs in America, which had exploded in number as the debate over slavery and regional animosity intensified. “Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news…
Nick Givason June 27, 2019 Ivanka Trump donated $50,000 on June 19 to Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, to help ease the suffering of children who had been separated from their parents at the southern border. Pastor Jack Graham claimed Ivanka saw his June 19 tweets about fixing the “terrible immigration crisis” and reached…
Tim Pearce Oklahomans voted to legalize medical marijuana throughout the state Tuesday night, creating some of the least restrictive laws for the drug in a staunchly red state. State Question 788 passed around 10:30 p.m. EST with 56.7 percent of the vote and 89 percent of precincts reporting, according to The New York Times. The new law allows doctors…
Nick Givas CNN commentator John Avlon said the Democratic Party is being take over by the “occupy generation” and compared it to the Tea Party surge of 2010, on “New Day” Wednesday. A panel discussed the upset win by socialist House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, who ran on a platform of abolishing Immigration…
Nick Givas Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida said he plans to have Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California censured for her comments about Trump administration officials and will ask for her resignation. “I think the hard left in this country is just totally off the rails and Maxine Waters is really the pied piper…
On Saturday, July 23rd, Alison Ettel called police on a young girl selling water without a permit in Oakland, CA. The girl’s relative caught a video of Ettel, tweeted it out, and an Internet rage mob had identified her and her business within hours. Twitter quickly dubbed the then-unidentified woman in the video #PermitPatty. The…
One evening in early April I was waiting for my ten-year-old twin granddaughters to finish their indoor soccer practice when a girl their age approached me and said, “Your coat looks really nice.” It was a wet, chilly evening, and I was wearing a London Fog given me thirty years ago by an elderly…
With the increasing decline of regular church attendees comes the decline of tithing. As many church leaders confront an already tightening waistline and the prospects of an even more dramatic decline in attendance and tithing as the Baby Boomers pass on to their rewards, it seems that some of them have turned to government largesse…
Henry Rodgers The wife of a cop killer committed suicide by jumping off a balcony at a nursing home in California just weeks after her husband was released on parole. Nancy Jacot-Bell was married to Herman Bell, who was released from prison in April, despite the fact that he killed two New York City officers in…
The humanitarian crisis unfolding on America’s southern border is a tragic scene. Reports state that Department of Health and Human Services has been taking in about 250 children per day in recent weeks as immigrants from South America—primarily from the nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—pour into America. By August, the department could have…