1. Humanity Denied: Religious Freedom in North Korea

2. This morning’s opening prayer in the House:

House Chaplain Pat Conroy’s opening prayer: "This has been a difficult and contentious week in which darker spirits seem to have been at play in the people's house. In Your most holy name, I now cast out all spirits of darkness from this chamber, spirits not from You." pic.twitter.com/DleRYUtLWV — CSPAN (@cspan) July 18, 2019

3. A ‘wealth’ of resources available to St Louis women with unexpected pregnancies


4. Did Arizona Department of Child Safety try to bar parents from criticizing it?

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What's the strongest community correlate of upward mobility for poor kids in America? "the strongest correlation is the number of intact families" in a community. Fascinating @TheAtlantic on Harvard economist Raj Chetty's important work: https://t.co/NmpUaappZX — W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) July 17, 2019

6. Chick-Fil-A kicks off a benefit drive to help foster care children. (Local news story in Georgia. More of this would be good.)



7. Yuval Levin at that much-talked-about nationalism conference: “Those with whom we disagree in our society are not our enemies; they are our neighbors. They are not out to do harm to our country; they differ with us about what would be good for it. To love our country is to love them too — even when they do not show us the same regard, . . .”

8. Ursula Hennessey makes an excellent observation about guns and Hollywood culture around the jarring movie trailer for The Kitchen Sink. Don’t click on the link if you’re sensitive to violence.

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Forbid all potential presidential candidates and political journalists from traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolin or Nevada until 4 months before the date of the primary/caucus.

. https://t.co/WvOJQD6AAu — Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) July 18, 2019

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