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Americans Expect to Drop $1K Shopping This Holiday Season, Will You?

Confidence is near an all-time high, unemployment is the lowest in decades and take-home pay is up.

Thanksgiving is a Time for Unity Not Confrontation of Trump-Supporting Family Members

Instead of flipping tables, flipping the bird, and flipping out, let’s practice our civility muscles.

Heartwarming: How Samaritan's Purse Answers the Call for Americans Hit by Disaster

When tragedy hits in America, friends and neighbors show up. So do love-based organizations like Samaritan's Purse, which has been working hard in states around the country in 2018 to restore and rebuild homes destroyed by floods, fires and more.

Women’s March Founder Asks Leaders to Resign

Founder of the Women’s March, Teresa Shook, has asked four leaders of her movement to step down after their refusal to break ties with known anti-Semites, like Louis Farrakhan.

No Kamala Harris, ICE and the KKK are Not the Same

Let’s be clear: Deportation is not lynching. Destroying illegal drugs and weapons is not burning crosses. Fighting human trafficking is not rape and kidnapping.

Millennial Monday: Bipartisan Support for Prison Reform

The proposal is a bipartisan effort to amend old laws on the books that have led to what many critics consider harsh sentencing policies...

Banning Pricey Jackets Doesn’t Stop Poverty Shaming, But Pushes a Victim Mentality

This ban won’t end bullying - if it’s happening - and it misses an important lesson about life.

OpEd

Shaming Women Who Vote Right

Via National Review

by Carrie L. Lukas

The Left cannot comprehend why women might think differently from them...

Post-Election Analysis: In Congress, It’s New Gridlock, Same Old Divisions

Via Inside Sources

by Patrice Lee Onwuka

The 2018 midterm election is over. Republicans expanded their Senate majority while Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives...

Why so busy? Our flawed college system takes toll on families years before tuition is due

Via USA Today

by Carrie L. Lukas

Families jam their schedules and fret over finances to prepare their kids for college. But all this craziness comes at a cost to parents and children...

Who's left out of Medicare price negotiations? The patient

Via Washington Examiner

by Hadley Heath

President Trump recently announced his administration would pursue a pilot program in Medicare to set drug prices at an International Pricing Index, meaning that for half of seniors insured by Medicare, foreign prices will be used as a benchmark for what the government will pay on their behalf...