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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Former United States Senator Joseph Lieberman died yesterday in New York City. His family reported that the death was due to complications from a fall. Joe Lieberman was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1989. By the time he left the United States Senate in 2013, he was no longer in...

March 28, 2024

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Well, over the course of the last couple of days, you have likely been told that the fate of the abortion pill now lies with the Supreme Court of the United States. You see headline after headline framed over the course of the last week or so, particularly because so much is at stake in the case that ...

March 27, 2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Well, looking around the world, there is no doubt where we have to start today. We have to start at the United Nations Security Council, where yesterday, that body adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. An immediate ceasefire that, according to the resolution, should be immed...

March 26, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024

We’ve got to begin today’s edition of The Briefing by going to Moscow where a major terrorist attack has killed well over 130 people, and the death toll is expected to mount in coming days and hours. The attack took place last Friday, it took place in Moscow. And even as this is big headli...

March 25, 2024

Friday, March 22, 2024

Well, how’s this for a negative headline? “US Slips from Top 20 of Happiest Countries.” That’s the Wall Street Journal. And the Washington Post “U.S. Hits New Low in World Happiness Report Driven Largely by Young People.” Well indeed, there are some interesting patt...

March 22, 2024

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Sometimes we look at a clash of worldviews and it’s about an issue or a clash of one worldview encountering another, and it’s often in a geographic location such as a campus, in a city, as we say. It’s more likely you’re going to find progressivism on the coasts, so those CR...

March 21, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves when we are observing a breach in political decorum, when we see something that in any previous age would’ve been nearly unthinkable, but now it’s something that’s just another headline. I’m speaking of what happened last Thursday in the Un...

March 20, 2024

In defense of the frozen children: The Alabama Supreme Court rules that the protection of human embryos extends beyond the womb

In a stunning development, the Alabama Supreme Court just declared that IVF embryos are legally defined as children under the state’s law and constitution, and thus deserve protection, whether or not they reside in a woman’s womb. The 8-1 decision has set off a firestorm, with many predicting the en...

March 20, 2024

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