President Donald Trump used a press conference at the United Nations to strike back Wednesday at House Democrats who are moving forward on an impeachment inquiry. “The witch hunt continues. But they’re getting hit hard on this witch hunt,” Trump told reporters. The president spoke hours after the White House released an official transcript of […]
The U.S. health and human services secretary condemned efforts to provide international access to abortion at a United Nations conference Monday. Secretary Alex Azar spoke Monday morning at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and told the gathered nations abortion is not an international right. Azar also condemned the use of “ambiguous terms and expressions such […]
Those hoping for fireworks up in Turtle Bay for President Donald Trump were disappointed Tuesday morning. No references to Rocket Man. Instead, Trump’s third address to the United Nations was shockingly traditional in tone and presentation. Although the speech, as is the president’s tendency, touted the administration’s economic accomplishments up front, it quickly shifted focus […]
The Trump White House has been pushing Ivanka Trump’s brainchild, the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, to a greater global audience. The program, which involves the National Security Council, the State Department, and other relevant agencies, focuses on empowering women and seeks to support them in the workplace in developing and Third World countries. How? By helping these women […]
Confirmation hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 19 were full of fireworks aimed at three nominees of President Donald Trump, but none made a dent in the nomination of Michael Pack, the administration’s pick to be chief executive officer at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Pack made a persuasive case […]
Education is fundamental to American flourishing. However, many young people today are not being taught how to think critically, to reason, or even to understand our nation’s founding principles. Billy Planer founded Etgar 36 in 2002 in an effort to educate students on America’s history and to teach youth how to have meaningful discussions around […]
I never expected my weekly morning ritual of coffee and crepes at a popular local coffee shop would be interrupted by a vulgar, verbal attack that would make national headlines. On Sept. 11, a cafe employee in Lincoln, Nebraska, named Natalie Weiss recognized me from across the room as an employee of the Nebraska Family […]
Francisco Molina got a refund check from his former union compensating him for dues collected after he resigned his membership. This means that the money Molina earned on the job since that time can’t be used to finance union political activity he doesn’t support. But what about the dues he paid as a social services […]
Prayer at legislative gatherings is as old as the United States—perhaps older, if we reach back in time to the Pilgrims’ landing at Plymouth Rock. Legislative prayer is such a traditional part of who we are as a country, in fact, that it should be one of the least questionable topics of our day. That’s […]
President Donald Trump said Friday that new sanctions on Iran’s national bank are the strongest ever placed on a country, but reiterated that he hopes to avoid military action against the Islamist regime. “I think sanctions work. The military would work. That’s a very severe form of winning,” Trump said during a joint White House […]
