In What You Need to Know, media still not covering Mueller; Stephen Baskerville’s essay The Growing Role of the State and the Family appeared in the Polish journal Kultura Prawna; Christmas presents with Ed Martin: book name plates, library tool set, Devil’s Pleasure Palace, The Fiery Angel; The media gets lazy around Christmas; Border patrol says 7-year-old migrant died in custody from dehydration and shock; President should give speech at the Resolute Desk about building the wall; In Swamp News, Washington Post to run full-page ad on Khashoggi killing.
In #CantTrumpThisCovfefe, don’t do a shut-down, welcome our Nation’s newly elected Governors; ‘There’s no plan’: Congress skips town as shutdown nears; Tim Goeglein on President George H.W. Bush’s contributions to our country and his book The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era; Phyllis Schlafly Report Commentary: Anniversary of Washington’s Death; In Your Turn, Kasich admits he couldn’t beat Trump in an election if it was held today; Where did the inauguration money come from?