EDITORIALS

Waking Up From Minimum Wage Fairy Tales

Star Parker | September 7, 2016 (Townhall.com) — The minimum wage persists as a fixture in public policy discussions because the idea remains popular with the general public. In a survey done by Pew Research in 2014, 73 percent favored increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. Bernie

Rissa Arias

There’s no doubt all the national problems are the result of people’s ideas and decisions. Obviously, and culturally speaking, for the most part, America is applying incorrect knowledge in most areas of life, it is the accurate, rational and practical way to understand what is happening.

The Freedom to Be Better

Let me share a couple of quotes by the philosopher and political journalist Albert Camus (1913-1960): “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better” and “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

Message from a non-oppressed black man to Colin Kaepernick…

Allen West | August 28, 2016 (allenbwest.com) – If there’s one thing I live for, it’s football season, especially college. Saturday night I was enjoying a fantastic game between Charleston Southern University and North Dakota State University. The game went into overtime and ended with the Bison of NDSU winning

Rissa Arias

Have you ever questioned why people, especially some “Christians,” are so obstinate in pointing out that politics and politicians are dirty? Why do some believe it is better not to get involved in politics? Even though millions, knowingly or unknowingly, think they are apolitical, I ask you, is there such a thing? Many questions like these swarm the minds of people. Is it right to leave politics alone and live and let live or is there something in this mindset that we should examine?

Ben-Hur: The Story Behind the Book that Inspired the Movies

Jerry Newcombe | August 19, 2016 (Constitution.com) – A remake of Ben-Hur movie is about to hit the movie screens. What’s fascinating to me is the story behind the book, which has also inspired two previous movies—the 1925 silent version and the 1959 movie-of-the-year, starring Charlton Heston. That version won 11

Princeton Dumps ‘Man’ but Forgets that WoMAN requires ‘Man’

Gary DeMar | August 19, 2016 (Constitution.com) – Whoever said that people with high IQs and SAT scores were smart? They’re not, as a new Human Resources policy at Ivy League Princeton shows: “The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word ‘man’ from its vocabulary. “The relatively new policy in

Air Force officer faces investigation over Bible on his desk

Todd Starnes | August 17, 2016 (Fox News) – The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is demanding an Air Force major be “aggressively punished” for having an open Bible on his desk at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. “It [the Bible] is very obviously a statement of Christian

Posting a Bible verse – a federal crime?

Steve Jordahl | August 17, 2016 (OneNewsNow.com) – She was court-martialed after refusing to remove a Bible verse she had posted in her work cubicle. Now the former Marine is hopeful the Supreme Court will hear her case. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF)

Deliverance from our Stockholm’s Syndrome

Trevaris J. Tutt | August 17, 2016 (American Vision) – We may feel proactive and involved in change, especially by figuring out whom to vote for in this upcoming election, but the truth is we are complacent and comfortable. We think progress is the State changing abortion laws from it

Does Black Success Matter?

Thomas Sowell | August 16, 2016 (Townhall) – We keep hearing that “black lives matter,” but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not