January 7, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Rev. Franklin Graham slammed President Barack Obama's gun actions Wednesday, saying that they "will do nothing to change this horrific problem."... (more)

January 7, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — Among the provisions of what Barack Obama calls "common sense" measures to stop "gun violence" -- which critics condemn as the president's latest unconstitutional end-runs around Congress -- one controversial new rule empowers health-care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to a FBI firearms background check system.... (more)

January 7, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Laura Ingraham, a top conservative radio host, tore into House Speaker Paul Ryan in a recent broadcast, saying the newly minted Republican leader actually fueled President Obama's executive orders on guns by giving the OK to funding for much of the White House's agenda.... (more)

January 7, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The cover-up of New Year's Eve sex mobs of Arabic and North African migrants in Germany continues to grow. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said Wednesday that women should adopt a "code of conduct" to discourage men from committing sexual assault. Gangs of migrants went on a crime spree last Friday night, which overwhelmed police and left scores of women at their attackers' mercy.... (more)

January 7, 2016

THE HILL — A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 is resurrecting her claims on social media. "I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me," Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Wednesday.... (more)

January 7, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Alabama probate judges were advised Wednesday that they must uphold state marriage law that recognizes only unions of a man and a woman, sparking outrage from gay rights advocates and applause from traditional values groups.... (more)

January 7, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — TransCanada on Wednesday accused President Obama in a federal lawsuit of exceeding his constitutional authority when rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and, in a separate challenge, said the White House violated a historic trade agreement, igniting an election-year battle over a project that most considered dead -- at least until the next president takes office in one year.... (more)

January 7, 2016

MICHELLE MALKIN — On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience."... (more)

January 7, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun-control laws.... (more)

January 6, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — President Obama has issued 10 executive orders changing the way gun sales are monitored and carried out, redefining a gun "dealer" to include almost any private citizens who sell even a single gun annually.... (more)

January 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughter of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California; or a dozen moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado.... (more)

January 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama is focusing on expanded background checks for gun purchases only because it polls well with the public, but the executive actions he announced Tuesday will, in truth, expand the power of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, former Secret Service agent Daniel Bongino tells Newsmax TV.... (more)

January 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — Jeb Bush responded quickly to administration's sweeping executive action on guns on Tuesday, decrying President Obama's "utter disregard for the Second Amendment."... (more)

January 6, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — Music legend Charlie Daniels wants to know how President Obama can argue that he worries about criminals getting firearms when he pardoned roughly 6,000 convicted drug felons two months ago.... (more)

January 6, 2016

CHARLES HURT — When all the hectoring is finished, the professorial lecturing is done, all the political posturing is over, all that is left are tears. And crocodile tears at that.... (more)

January 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — The National Rifle Association slammed a proposal by two New York Democrats that would severely restrict the amount of ammunition that could be purchased.... (more)

January 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has surged ahead of Donald Trump in late-voting California, buoyed by hard-core conservatives and evangelical voters, according to a new Field Poll.... (more)

January 6, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Karl Rove's quail hunting trip to the Texas-Mexico border over the Christmas holiday took an unexpected turn when he ran into two men hiding in the brush.... (more)

January 6, 2016

CBS PHILLY — Students at a Haddon Heights Elementary School are getting a real-life lesson in Constitutional law. Staffers at Glenview Elementary School say it became a daily ritual for students to say "God bless America" after the morning recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.... (more)

January 5, 2016

As Hillary Clinton's husband hits stump for the first time, the women on stage behind him scowl, grimace and look like they'd rather be ANYWHERE else

DAILY MAIL — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made his first solo campaign appearance in support of his wife's White House bid on Monday in Nashua, New Hampshire, but the female voters standing behind him on stage -- and one eighth-grader -- were stone-faced and unimpressed.... (more)

January 5, 2016

NEWSMAX — Conservative Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has urged the armed activists who have occupied a federal wildlife refuge building in Oregon to "stand down peaceably," NBC News reports.... (more)

January 5, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas abortion law that has shuttered nearly half the clinics in the state, saying the Republican-backed regulations would harm rather than protect women's health.... (more)

January 5, 2016

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — On the last day of 2015, the longest serving member of President Obama's Cabinet, Arne Duncan, quietly stepped down from his official position as what the Washington Post called "the most powerful education secretary in U.S. history." The federal government now provides about 10 percent of the money spent on public schools, and Duncan used that money, to an extent never before, to impose his will on local schools.... (more)

January 5, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — My weekend column profiled Bosch Fawstin, the intrepid cartoonist who won last spring's "Draw Muhammad" contest that was attacked by two ISIS-inspired jihadists in Garland, Texas. (The terrorists were killed in a shootout with police.)... (more)

January 4, 2016

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Though 2016 is the year we pick our next president, Americans also have good reason to approach that all-important event with another year in mind...2020. Why? Because that is the year in which the very existence of our nation could very well be decided -- possibly in any form other than its name, according to plans now carefully and quietly in the making... (more)