February 1, 2016

ALAN KEYES — Donald Trump's ill-tempered non-participation in the Fox News debate confirms the contrived character of everything going on in the GOP's sham primary process. People with their heads hopelessly stuck in the GOP sandbox can be counted on to take this farce at face value.... (more)

February 1, 2016

BRYAN FISCHER — If Republicans want a repeat of 2008 and 2012, elections in which millions of evangelicals stayed home and tipped the scale to the Democrat, all they have to do is nominate Donald Trump as their candidate.... (more)

January 31, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump has the highest unfavorable rating since Gallup began tracking the indicator for nominated candidates from either political party during the 1992 elections. Just two days before the Iowa caucuses, 60 percent of Americans surveyed view Trump unfavorably, versus 33 percent who see him favorably.... (more)

January 31, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's comparison of his "conversion" to conservative as similar to that of Ronald Reagan distorts the real estate billionaire's long liberal history, the son of the late president tells Newsmax TV.... (more)

January 31, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Alarmed by anti-Muslim rhetoric from some of the Republican presidential candidates, President Obama will visit a mosque for the first time in his presidency Wednesday to show support for American Muslims.... (more)

January 31, 2016

NEWSMAX — Three Islamic State commanders have been gunned down at long range in the jihadists'' new caliphate headquarters in the Libyan city of Sirte, leading to speculation that a single sniper who honed his skills in the Libyan uprising against its slain dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi.... (more)

January 30, 2016

DAVID LIMBAUGH — I keep hearing from supporters of other GOP candidates that Ted Cruz can't win the general election because he is too conservative and too preachy. These same people criticize him for not being authentically conservative and also support others who are preachy.... (more)

January 30, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — In the year 2020, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will turn 85 years old. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will turn 87. Justice Stephen Breyer will turn 82. Perhaps they will all live and serve on the Supreme Court for another decade. More likely, some or all of them will retire.... (more)

January 30, 2016

DOUGLAS ERNST — The Obama administration leveled a devastating blow to Hillary Clinton on Friday by admitting for the first time that her personal email server contained the highest levels of classified U.S. intelligence.... (more)

January 30, 2016

NEWSMAX — Don't expect Barack Obama to wind up on the Supreme Court -- he doesn't want the job. The White House says Obama's post-presidency plans don't include becoming a Supreme Court justice.... (more)

January 30, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — Another big battle is brewing over Syrian "refugees" sweeping into small-town America. Rural folks in Montana are pushing back against plans by urban elites to plant hundreds of Muslims from the Third World into Helena and Missoula. They plan a protest rally at 10 a.m. Monday in front of the county courthouse in Missoula.... (more)

January 30, 2016

NEWSMAX — Kalashnikov USA is building a factory in Florida where it will pump out new AK-47s for availability in the United States now that the company has cut ties with its parent company in Russia, reported the website ForeignPolicy.com on Thursday.... (more)

January 30, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — It's National School Choice Week, which means hundreds of thousands of parents, students, teachers, and Americans of all kinds are attending more than 16,000 events nationwide celebrating policies that give children greater educational opportunity. Unsurprisingly, none of the more than 230 government proclamations recognizing NSCW this year came from the White House. For the sixth consecutive year since NSCW began, the Obama administration has resolutely ignored it.... (more)

January 30, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — What Rich Lowry tartly labeled "the Trumpless Debate" exposed the fracture of the Republican party's base with a clarity that the Donald's presence would not have allowed.... (more)

January 29, 2016

ERICK ERICKSON — The intentional winner of the Fox News Republican debate Thursday night was Marco Rubio. He had a really good debate. He was substantive and sharp, clear and polished. He came across as likable. He came across as someone who knows foreign policy.... (more)

January 29, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump was the "the big loser" in Thursday's Republican presidential debate, finishing -- in absentia -- behind Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax TV.... (more)

January 29, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — Even when Donald Trump is not on the stage, he's still the center of attention. With the very first question of Thursday night's GOP presidential debate, Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly brought up "the elephant not in the room tonight -- Donald Trump."... (more)

January 29, 2016

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Donald Trump may have been conspicuously absent, but Thursday night's Republican debate on Fox News Channel nevertheless scored a 8.4 rating and 12.5 million viewers, according to early numbers from Nielsen. That's higher than the returns for the last Republican debate, Jan. 14 on sister net Fox Business Network, and marks the No. 2 telecast in FNC history.... (more)

January 29, 2016

NEWSMAX — Ted Cruz was the clear winner of the GOP debate according to Newsmax readers and TV viewers.Here are the results of the Newsmax poll as of early Friday following Thursday's Republican presidential debate... (more)

January 29, 2016

NEWSMAX — The FBI on Thursday released video showing one of the men occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before he was shot dead by law enforcement after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group's leader was arrested.... (more)

January 29, 2016

GREG COROMBOS — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading the charge to pass legislation to make it harder for the government to see your emails. Lee is championing S. 356, also known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Amendments Act, which would require officials to get a warrant or court order to gain access to emails just as they currently do to search Americans' mail or enter their homes. He said there are no restrictions on the government searching emails.... (more)

January 28, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Donald J. Trump was insulted by Fox News chief Roger Ailes and says he will hold an alternative event rather than participate in Thursday night's debate. But why won't Trump stand up to Russia's Vladimir Putin? A series of pro-Putin remarks by a potential leader of the Free World is a far more serious matter than whether Megyn Kelly is given the opportunity to question Trump.... (more)

January 28, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Is Donald Trump the sharia of American politics? I'm having trouble finding much daylight between Islamic law's repressive blasphemy standards and the mogul's thin-skinned sense of privilege.... (more)

January 28, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Evangelical leader Tony Perkins, who serves as president of the Family Research Council, has named his personal pick for president and it's Sen. Ted Cruz, the candidate he sees as standing for the principles espoused by the Founding Fathers.... (more)

January 28, 2016

NEWSMAX — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly scolded Donald Trump on his show Wednesday, telling the GOP presidential front-runner his skipping the Fox News debate is not helpful to the country.... (more)