Actor and ’50s heartthrob Tab Hunter, best known for his roles in Battle Cry and Island of Desire, has died, his husband Allan Glaser told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. He was 86. Glaser said he and Hunter were at home in Santa Barbara, California, when Hunter went into cardiac arrest after a blood clot in his leg went […]

China let Liu Xia, the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, leave the country for Berlin on Tuesday. She had been under house arrest although she was never charged with a crime. She was freed days ahead of the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death in prison on a sentence for inciting subversion. Human rights groups […]

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned a pair of Oregon ranchers whose arson conviction became a focus for opponents of federal government land ownership. Dwight Hammond, 76, and his son Steven, 49, were convicted in 2012 and sent to prison on arson charges. They had set a series of fires on their ranch that spread to federal land. The Hammonds’ case became the inspiration […]

Kavanaugh and the Federalist Society [on Twitter] Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh claimed Monday night: “No president has ever consulted more widely or talked to more people from more backgrounds to seek input for a Supreme Court nomination.” FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@illinois.edu Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a longtime critic […]

(Jul. 10, 2018) — At approximately 7:54 AM EDT on Tuesday, Fox News reported that the last members of a boys’ soccer team in northern Thailand were rescued, along with their 25-year-old coach, from the cave in which they were captive since late last month. The 12-member “Wild Boars” soccer team and coach had gone exploring after practice on June […]

If Mitch McConnell’s Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party. Not bad for a rookie. And the lamentations on the left are surely justified. For liberalism’s great strategic ally and asset of 60 years, the judicial dictatorship […]

By Gerald Flurry   |   The Trumpet  Election results reveal the true colors of the Democratic Party. New York’s 14th congressional primary yielded shocking results when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10–term Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley. Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist, received almost 60 percent of the vote in an election the Independent calls “one of the biggest upsets in modern American history.” After Cortez’s victory drew national […]

And now it’s down to business…..  As you may already know President Trump nominated District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh, 53, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday, igniting a vicious election year confirmation battle in the Senate that could tip the Supreme Court in favor of conservatives for a generation. Trump appeared reserved and reflective […]

.. . besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. —2 Corinthians 11:28 While making his landmark documentary about World War II, filmmaker Ken Burns and his colleagues watched thousands of hours of military footage. Scenes of the devastating Battle of Peleliu often invaded their dreams at night. Burns told Sacramento Bee reporter […]