NBC’s decision to edit the word “God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during last weekend’s coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament has teed off thousands, including an Ohio congressman, who wants the U.S. Golf Association to reconsider its relationship with the television network. Here’s NBC’s politically correct version of the pledge, which happened twice:…

  “They beat and tortured my husband and me for more than two hours,” writes the wife of blind activist Chen Guangcheng — who dared to tell the world the horror of China’s forced abortion policy. The world’s most populous nation has for years allowed couples to have no more than one baby. Those who defy authorities pay terrible…

Back in the darkest days of World War II, when the Nazis were blitzkreiging unstoppably across Europe’s democracies, as millions of Jews, gypsies and uncooperative Christians were gassed at concentration camps, as America was gripped in fear that California and Oregon were next after Pearl Harbor, an eccentric movie was released. In it the famed…

    A familiar tactic is rearing its ugly head far too often these days.  Mockery aimed at stifling debate. “One of the cleverest tricks is demonizing perfectly reasonable actions and opinions,” writes conservative author Andrew Klavan. We’ve seen it so many times. Throughout the last 30 years, the mainstream press has trumpeted any inane comment…

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