Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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The Leviathan of Medicaid: The Problem of Medicaid and the Attempt By Republicans to Reform the Program

PART II

Media Speculate About New Pope on Migration? Why the Statements from the Vatican Aren’t Having Much Effect. There is No Serious Policy Proposal

PART III

Let’s Talk About Homelessness: Democrats are Shifting on Homelessness, Some Now Calling for a Ban on Homeless Camps

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

PART I
Have You 'Evolved' in Moral Conviction? Watching the Language of the Cultural Left, Certain That History is Moving Their Way
PART II
The Report on Mifepristone Has Struck a Nerve: The Left’s Response to the EPPC's Report Reveals Deadly Commitment to Abortion

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Blue Dots in Red States: Utah and Idaho Cities Adopt Official LGBTQ Flags to Get Around State Laws
PART IV
Kermit the Frog, Coming to a Commencement Ceremony Near You? The ‘Who’s Who’ of Graduation Speakers Has an Embarrassing Amphibian Guest
Monday, May 12, 2025

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The Death of Justice David Souter: The Reclusive ‘Stealth Justice’ Dies at 85
PART II
‘No More Souters’: Justice Souter’s Appointment Taught Republicans That a Candidate Must Be Conservative in Conviction, Not Just Temperament

PART III
Conservatives and Liberals Both Now Show Concern on Transgender Revolution: Major Editorial Boards Agree on Significance of HHS Transgender Procedures Report
Friday, May 9, 2025

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From Black Smoke to White Smoke: The Roman Catholic Church Has a New Pope
PART II
Another Progressive Pope? The Conservative Catholic Concerns Surrounding Pope Leo XIV

PART III
Evangelicals and the Papacy: We Definitely Do Not Have a Pope, But the Catholic Pope Still Matters
PART IV
An Avalanche of News is Coming: What to Watch in the Coming Days in the News About Pope Leo XIV – What Will Conservative and Liberal Catholics Say?

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The Briefing 02-14-17

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Celebrating St. Valentine's Day: How the rise of romantic love led to the transformation of marriage

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The persistence of spirituality in our secular age: Beyoncé and fertility goddesses at the Grammys

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Inundated with bad news: How the 24-hour news cycle affects our psyche

The Briefing 02-13-17

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Why the judicial usurpation of politics is a threat to the American constitutional order

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Neil Gorsuch refuses to get political in catch-22 Q&A session with Senator Schumer

PART III

How worldview impacts demographics and demographics reveal worldview

The Briefing 02-10-17

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President v. Court: What the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision means—and doesn’t mean.

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Why decorum matters in the US Senate: GOP Senators rebuke Elizabeth Warren for indecorous comments

PART III

A profane trend in publishing: More and more books have expletives in their titles

PART IV

Are American universities equipped to defend the truth, or one of the reasons truth is so disputed?

The Briefing 02-09-17

PART I

The chilling logic of abortionist Willie Parker: "A fetus is not a person; it’s a human entity."

PART II

Should tax payer money go to churches that counsel women to get abortions?

PART III

Spokesman claims Planned Parenthood is "the lynchpin" for growing a healthy future for families

PART IV

Study: Millennials think having sex is less intimate than going on first date or meeting the family

The Briefing 02-08-17

PART I

History made in Senate as Vice President joins in confirmation vote for Betsy DeVos

PART II

Public education and worldview: What's really at stake

PART III

Science or Scientism? 'March for Science' plans rally in Washington DC on Earth Day

PART IV

NYT Editorial Board: "Boy Scouts are recognizing transgender boys for what they genuinely are: boys."

The Briefing 02-07-17

PART I

Will President Trump protect the religious liberty of those who refuse to join the LGBT revolution?

PART II

A White House divided: Trump family members clash with advisors over LGBT rights and religious liberty

PART III

Killing free speech kills civilization: UC Berkeley, birthplace of Free Speech Movement, cancels speech

The Briefing 02-06-17

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Capitalism, consumerism, and the quintessential American spectacle of Super Bowl LI

PART II

Pres. Trump's "leadership by thunderbolt" and America's exceptional Constitutional order

PART III

Politics back in the pulpit? Understanding the controversial Johnson Amendment

The Briefing 02-03-2017

PART I

Should we live with contradiction? Peter Singer's immoral, incoherent worldview

PART II

"The writing is on the wall for people like me": Disabled British lawmaker decries selective abortion

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"Life unworthy of life": Germany solemnly remembers the victims of Nazi eugenics

PART IV

Crime and culpability: Secretary of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels dies at 106

The Briefing 02-02-2017

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Politics & worldview: Is party identification a better indicator of who you will marry than religion?

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States rush to preserve abortion on demand in face of possible federal restrictions

PART III

"Pregnant people," not "expectant mothers": British Med. Assoc. codifies doublespeak in new guidelines

PART IV

In response to progressive policy changes, Christians leaving Boy Scouts for conservative alternatives

The Briefing 02-01-2017

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Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch, a textualist in the mold of Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court

PART II

What was behind Trump's decision to fire acting Attorney General Sally Yates?

PART III

What, then, is a boy? Boy Scouts will now accept transgender "boys" into membership

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