
Supreme Court reinstates Trump’s travel ban, but only for some immigrants



Source: Supreme Court declares churches eligible for public funds in Missouri playground case

Source: The Democrats’ Religion Problem – The New York Times

The history of Zion and of the Jewish people is a history of repeated persecution, oppression, colonial occupation and exile. As Jews, irrespective of whether we are Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, Sephardi or Beta Yisrael, our history has been inexorably linked to literally thousands of years of occupation, colonialism, and persecution by various colonial powers and our corresponding […]

As ongoing debates around subjects ranging from religious liberty to climate change illustrate, many Western societies are being led in decidedly illiberal directions by self-described liberals. Significant pressures are now brought to bear on those whose views don’t fit the contemporary liberal consensus. Consider, for instance, the epithets heaped upon Benedict XVI when he intimated […]

Islamic State militants blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret, Iraq’s military said in a statement, as Iraqi forces seeking to expel the group from the city closed in on the site. It was from this medieval mosque three years ago that the militants’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared […]

Republicans have accepted the narrative following the shootings that there is some sort of moral equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. Source: Trump Supporter Shoots Democratic Congressmen: Thought Experiment | National Review

The problem with the election of President Donald J. Trump was not just that he presented a roadblock to an ongoing progressive revolution. Instead, unlike recent Republican presidential nominees, he was indifferent to the cultural and political restraints on conservative pushback — ironic given how checkered Trump’s own prior conservative credentials are. Trump brawled in […]

After passing multiple checkpoints, we finally turned the cars towards devastated Christian villages. Once thriving, vibrant, green communities, today the churches, homes, and businesses were in ruins, having been decimated by the Islamic State (ISIS, or IS). Hardly a building stood intact. It was a war zone, and eerily empty. We traveled with five families […]
