July 30, 2015

(Meeting the challenges)

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — It's 2018. Chuck Spelvin, American, now faces a dilemma. Last night, he read the riot act to his pre-teenage son, who had just been suspended from school. A "disrupter." That's it! At first, no coherent elaboration. It's just that Billy Spelvin had "disrupted a class."... (more)

July 30, 2015

CLIFF KINCAID — Time magazine is out with a colorful and glossy "Inside the New Cuba" special edition, featuring smiling Cuban kids wearing Communist garb on the cover. Page 64 has a photo showing "Cuban fans" holding up "their national flag" at a baseball game. It turns out that the really happy Cubans are those who have been defecting from the island "paradise," as Time magazine calls the prison camp country... (more)

July 30, 2015

LEO HOHMANN — Secretary of State John Kerry testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the U.S. government will not be revealing to the American people the contents of "secret side deals" made with Iran on its nuclear enrichment program.... (more)

July 30, 2015

NEWSMAX — Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has doubled-down on his biting criticism of a nuclear pact with Iran, reiterating his charge that if the deal is enacted, it will give Iran a $50 billion signing bonus that Tehran will use to fund terrorism.... (more)

July 30, 2015

GREG COROMBOS — Congressional Republicans are headed toward summer recess in turmoil, and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says it's because Republican leaders are acting like big-spending liberals and conservatives have had enough of it.... (more)

July 30, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Speaker John A. Boehner shrugged off an attempted conservative coup Wednesday, calling it "no big deal," but the rebellion threatens to drown out Republicans' message during Congress' upcoming summer vacation and could stymy GOP plans for a big finish for 2015.... (more)

July 30, 2015

JOSEPH FARAH — Could the aborted baby parts tapes actually be the undoing of Planned Parenthood, one of the very institutional foundations of the modern "progressive" movement? Could they actually inflict real damage to other "progressive" movements, institutions, parties and politicians?... (more)

July 29, 2015

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — President Obama told the African Union Tuesday that he felt he had been a "pretty good" president and if he were allowed to run for a third term, he'd probably be victorious. Obama made the remarks while criticizing leaders on the continent who wouldn't step aside at the conclusion of their terms.... (more)

July 29, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — Tea party champion Rep. Mark Meadows filed a motion Tuesday to oust House Speaker John A. Boehner from his leadership post, escalating the feud between a faction of conservative lawmakers and the Republican leadership.... (more)

July 29, 2015

NATIONAL REVIEW — Two encouraging signs from CNN this morning... First, check out these poll numbers on the Iran deal: "Most say they would like to see Congress reject it. Overall, 52 percent say Congress should reject the deal, 44 percent say it should be approved."... (more)

July 29, 2015

NEWSMAX — A decision by the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay leaders was met with indignation by the largest U.S. Protestant group on Tuesday along with criticism from a leading gay rights group that the move did not go far enough.... (more)

July 29, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — A third undercover video sparked new outrage Tuesday by following the money behind the fetal-organ supply chain, starting with Planned Parenthood, and prompting GOP presidential candidates to raise the pressure on the group's federal and corporate funding.... (more)

July 29, 2015

BOB UNRUH — Commissioners in Rowan County, North Carolina, have gone to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to preserve their tradition of opening meetings with prayer, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a similar case that affirmed the practice.... (more)

July 29, 2015

BILL FEDERER — "Americans combine...Christianity and...liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other" -- Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville was born July 29, 1805.... (more)

July 29, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — The IRS sent one of its intrusive scrutiny letters to a nonprofit group in order to throw up a smokescreen and prevent the group from complaining to Congress about poor treatment, according to one of Lois G. Lerner's apparently lost emails, which were recovered by auditors and released by an interest group Tuesday.... (more)

July 29, 2015

NEWSMAX — Last summer, Dr. William Thompson, a senior epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, admitted that he had helped the CDC hide data from a study which linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Holistic doctor David Brownstein tells Newsmax Health the CDC is still not owning up to Dr. Thompson's charges that they found data that links the vaccine to a spike in autism. "The CDC is still not coming clean," Dr. Brownstein says. "They want to keep it quiet, but it's time the cover-up ended."... (more)

July 28, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — Leaders of Boy Scouts of America voted -- and ratified -- a proposal to change its adult membership policy to admit gay and lesbian adults as leaders, employees and volunteers.... (more)

July 28, 2015

WEEKLY STANDARD — Asked directly by CNN's Wolf Blitzer whether she would vote to support President Obama's Iran deal, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz demurred, saying: "I am in the middle of really reviewing it and looking at all of the moving parts to the Iran deal... (more)

July 28, 2015

BREITBART — The Iran deal will provide Iran with a cash windfall as sanctions are eased and assets are unfrozen. The total amount is estimated to be as high as $150 billion. If so, the Iran deal would give more cash to Iran than the $124.3 billion U.S. has given in total aid to Israel since 1948.... (more)

July 28, 2015

NEWSMAX — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Monday refused to back down from his comments comparing the Iran nuclear deal to the Holocaust, even as some of his former co-workers at Fox News Channel chided him over it.... (more)

July 28, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own disability payments -- a move the NRA is calling the "largest gun grab in American history."... (more)

July 28, 2015

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's poll numbers are continuing to climb "because the people of this country are understandably fed up" with Republican leaders who don't stand up for conservative principles, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Monday.... (more)

July 28, 2015

NEWSMAX — House Speaker John Boehner has failed to advance conservative policies and allowed President Barack Obama to drive the agenda and, therefore, must be driven from his position of power, Citizens United President David Bossie writes in an op-ed on Breitbart.com.... (more)

July 28, 2015

GARTH KANT — Just days after publicly calling the majority leader a liar on the Senate floor, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has upped the stakes in his war on GOP brass by accusing Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., of spearheading the effort to keep taxpayer funds going to Planned Parenthood.... (more)

July 28, 2015

BOB UNRUH — Even as public horror over the abortion industry surges in reaction to videos revealing Planned Parenthood executives negotiating the prices of the body parts of unborn babies, another development is emerging that could impact abortion in a much more fundamental way.... (more)