February 18, 2016

SELWIN DUKE — The death of the intrepid Justice Antonin Scalia has shaken the political world. If his successor's appointment cannot be delayed until the next presidency, it's assured that an unassailable hard-left majority will control the Supreme Court. This will mean,... (more)

February 18, 2016

NEWSMAX — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has overtaken businessman Donald Trump in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News national poll of likely Republican voters.... (more)

February 18, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — It has become increasingly clear that the "self-funded" candidate in the Republican presidential primary, Donald J. Trump, will destroy the GOP's chances to win in November if he is the nominee. Leftist groups are ecstatic over Trump's "Bush lied, people died," mantra over the Iraq war. Internet trolls for Vladimir Putin are firmly behind Trump, saying he has the right recipe for accommodating Russia.... (more)

February 17, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW, AUG. 10, 2015 — 'I'm the ultimate Trump loyalist," says Roger Stone, the longtime friend and closest political advisor who departed the billionaire real-estate mogul's presidential campaign this weekend in shocking and seemingly acrimonious fashion... (more)

February 17, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — In a press conference today, Ted Cruz called Trump's bluff on the threat to sue Cruz for hurting his feelings.... (more)

February 17, 2016

YOUTUBE — Watch the Cruz campaign's video showcasing Rubio's imitation of Obama's talking points on immigration.... (more)

February 17, 2016

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him. But no one can replace Justice Scalia.... (more)

February 17, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — I'm sorry that the crucial importance of Justice Scalia's now-vacant seat on the Supreme Court meant that the heated battle over filling it was already well underway while most of us, reeling from the profound loss, craved a respectable interval to console his loved ones and reflect on his epic legacy.... (more)

February 17, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year's primary election campaigns, the death of a giant -- Justice Antonin Scalia -- suddenly overshadows all of that.... (more)

February 17, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama called on Senate Republicans Tuesday to give his eventual Supreme Court nominee a fair hearing in his bid to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as cracks emerged in the Republican leadership's position of automatically blocking any nominee.... (more)

February 17, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — A couple of photographs of President Obama shaking hands with a wealthy Democrat Party donor named John Poindexter, who also owns the ranch resort where he found Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead, has fueled the whispers that radio host Michael Savage just gave wings to with the blunt broadcast question: "Was [he] murdered?"... (more)

February 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — In late 2014 while still pondering a possible presidential run, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush famously stated that Republicans must be willing to "lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles."... (more)

February 17, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Not content to stop at adopting the radical Left's feverish "Bush lied, people died" trutherism, Donald Trump is now praising Saddam Hussein as a man who "made a living off killing terrorists." No, really:... (more)

February 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Rep. Steve King likened Donald Trump's tactics on the campaign trail to those of "a schoolyard bully" in a Newsmax TV interview on Tuesday. "I have never seen such a schoolyard bully in all my experience in politics," the Iowa Republican, who is backing rival Ted Cruz, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "That's what I think we've got going on."... (more)

February 16, 2016

BOB UNRUH — Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says that, if elected, one of his strategies to return America to its constitutional moorings would be to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.... (more)

February 16, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Sally Miller, one of Bill Clinton's purported former mistresses, said she fears for her life -- so much so that she sleeps with a gun -- and believes the Democratic Party's leading White House hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is out to get her.... (more)

February 16, 2016

DOUGLAS ERNST — A decorated U.S. Marine veteran, whose actions inspired an iconic war memorial, was assaulted from behind shortly after teenagers asked him about the Black Lives Matter movement.... (more)

February 16, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The lead singer of the Eagles of Death Metal, an American rock band, opened up about the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where his band was performing Nov. 13, saying the trauma has made him more sympathetic to gun rights.... (more)

February 16, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The window is still open on President Obama's option of replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a recess appointment, although the White House says the president won't pursue such an antagonistic course.... (more)

February 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Democrats are crying foul, even crying racism, because Senate Republicans say they will not confirm President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday. Some are hyperventilating about "constitutional crisis."... (more)

February 16, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — This morning, the Washington Post's James Hohmann made perhaps the Left's single-strongest argument for confirming President Obama's imminent Supreme Court nominee -- obstructionism could cost the GOP its Senate majority.... (more)

February 16, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the so-called "democratic socialist" running for president as a Democrat, made a surprise appearance on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace. But there was no discussion of what "democratic socialism" is or how it may differ from the socialism, say, of the old Soviet Union.... (more)

February 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama's silence on a wave of recent killings of police officers is being ripped by law enforcement, with one Maryland sheriff taking to Facebook to mock that he will "save you a spot next to me!" at this week's funerals for two deputies.... (more)

February 16, 2016

DOUGLAS ERNST — An Islamic State executioner's head exploded during a class on beheading after a well-aimed shot by a British Special Air Service sniper. Military sources told the Express that a recent mission into northern Syria involved killing an ISIS recruiter with a Dan.338 rifle as the terrorist was instructing 21 new recruits.... (more)

February 16, 2016

BILL FEDERER — "The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco," stated President Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009. Morocco began recognizing American colonists in 1625. Governor William Bradford described the incident in the "History of the Plymouth Settlement."... (more)