Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

1 week ago | 1819news.com | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

I almost got through June without encountering Deadly Sin month. My family takes a road trip around Memorial Day to visit other family and see the interior of the country, connecting to its people and places, not just flying over it. We spent part of June in a tiny Kansas town where the only flag flown for the most part was the American flag. Stores had standard, attractive displays to draw you to their merchandise, and conversations surrounded the things of everyday life.

1 week ago | redstate.com | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

From "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" to "Lean on Me" to "Music of My Heart" to "Stand and Deliver" to "Dangerous Minds," and "Mr. Holland's Opus," I have always been a fan of innovative educators, especially when the dramatizations represent true-life instructors, as some of these films do. These types of teachers make a difference by infusing learning with joy and a unique perspective, while showing their students that discipline and hard work matters across all of life.

1 week ago | redstate.com | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

The case of Adriana Smith is a tragedy wrapped in an enigma. Smith was a pregnant Georgia woman who, in February, complained of severe headaches. She was seen by a doctor and given medicine, but she ended up suffering a catastrophic event that left her brain dead. Smith was kept on life support in order to give her unborn child a chance at viability.

1 week ago | redstate.com | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) seems to think that being a member of the House of Representatives gives her carte blanche to crash any meeting or government facility where she decides that she needs access. As Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), her colleague in the other chamber, discovered, this is not a winning strategy. No matter how much you might whine or cry that it is your "legal right," it doesn't make it so.

1 week ago | redstate.com | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Republican political strategist Ana Navarro gets paid well by ABC, CNN and Telemundo to propagate leftist propaganda as a supposedly wise Republican LatinX voice. No one bothers to note that Navarro has not supported a Republican since Jeb Bush and John McCain, but that's beside the point. Navarro's latest bit on a Tuesday CNN panel was to espouse this stunning revelation: if illegal immigrants are rounded up and deported, who is going to milk the cows? It's a looming crisis, don't yah know.