(AP)

President Donald Trump claimed during his Monday night rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that the Democratic Party does not put much stock in religion and that their attempts to appeal to religious voters are ineffective.

“The other side, I don’t think they’re big believers. They’re not big believers in religion, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “You listen to some of them. They’re trying. They’re trying to put out little statements. They’re not working too well.”

The president did not specify to which statements he was referencing. Read Full Story

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(Dreamstime)

On Tuesday, Walmart made a grandstanding announcement signaling a change in its policy on the sales of certain ammunition and legal open carry in its stores. This was a change the company originally said it was not going to make.

Walmart executives are no doubt under the impression that this capitulation will satisfy at least some of the company’s critics from the rabidly anti-Second Amendment Left. If so, it would mean that they have had limited exposure to American leftists.

When it comes to the leftists’ biggest pet issues, there is never a satisfactory partial response. They want total surrender and nothing less. They’re zealots, not rational people who just happen to think differently. Read Full Story

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(AP)

Though former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis only mentions his last boss, President Donald Trump, in the opening pages of his new book, the Washington establishment seems certain the tome on leadership is directed at him, with one observer calling it “mainly a 100,000-word subtweet.”

Mattis says he won’t discuss a sitting president, though it seems clear he disdains Trump’s leadership style. But he is scathing about a former president in Call Sign Chaos:Learning to Lead, which is released today, and he doesn’t hesitate to name him: Barack Obama.

The former general’s opinion of Obama, for whom Mattis was head of U.S. Central Command from 2010 until 2013, might be summed up by a single entry in the book’s index: “Obama, Barack, strategic thinking lacking.” Read Full Story

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