February 29, 2016

ALAN KEYES — "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." (James Madison, Federalist No. 10)... (more)

February 29, 2016

BREITBART — Three new polls from NBC/WSJ suggest a drama-filled election night on Super Tuesday, with the three top candidates in contention for at least some bragging rights.... (more)

February 29, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — Ben Sasse hits all the right notes in this open letter to Trump supporters about what a Constitutionalist should do if Trump is nominated.... (more)

February 28, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Flashy plays better than methodical in prime time, so Marco Rubio was beaming like a big winner after Thursday night's debate in Houston. In Ted Cruz, though, I'm happy to have the candidate who looks best the morning after.... (more)

February 28, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republican candidate Ted Cruz said Donald Trump is "hiding" his tax returns from primary voters, and argued the GOP front-runner should quickly release the documents to prevent a general election scandal should he become the nominee.... (more)

February 28, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump has failed again and again as a businessman, and he has avoided losing his own money by shoving the losses onto the people who put their trust in him.... (more)

February 28, 2016

BILL FEDERER — Richard Stockton signed the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration mentioned God four times: "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. ... All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ... Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions. ... And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."... (more)

February 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — Best-selling Christian author Max Lucado believes Donald Trump speaks with a forked tongue when he calls himself a Christian one day and launches jaw-dropping personal attacks on people the next.... (more)

February 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — Six years ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was then the state's attorney general, blocked Donald Trump's Trump University from operating in the state and investigated it for claims of "deceptive trade practices."... (more)

February 27, 2016

DAVID LIMBAUGH — As a Reagan conservative, this is a particularly difficult primary season. We finally have what many of us consider a near-perfect candidate on the issues at a perfect time in our history, but obstacles persist.... (more)

February 27, 2016

JOSEPH FARAH — Presidential election years are exciting. Almost everyone has something to say about what's happening. Most people have strong opinions about which candidate has the best ideas for setting America on the right course.... (more)

February 27, 2016

BOB UNRUH — The fight over a replacement for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is heating up this week, with plans for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to meet with Barack Obama over the issue.... (more)

February 27, 2016

BOB UNRUH — The Obama administration has been given permission to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court against safety regulations for the abortion industry and alongside the mob that chanted "hail Satan" when the rules were adopted in Texas in 2013.... (more)

February 27, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Utah's Republican governor has taken the lead in ordering his state to stop all work on meeting the compliance deadlines for the Environmental Protection Agency's climate change plan, after the Supreme Court halted the regulations earlier in February.... (more)

February 27, 2016

DOUGLAS ERNST — Thugs in the nation's capital appear to have a knack for ambushing Marine veterans from behind. A second war veteran this month was hospitalized in Washington, D.C., after being knocked unconscious in an unprovoked attack. Michael Schroeder, 35, was beaten and left for dead Feb. 12 while walking home from a bar on the same day that veteran Christopher Marquez, 30, suffered a similar assault upon exiting a McDonald's.... (more)

February 27, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Angela Davis, a political activist, author, professor and "radical African-American educator" who was once regarded as a terrorist and danger to the nation by former President Richard Nixon, in part for her early communist beliefs, said during an interview about her new book that she favors Sen. Bernie Sanders in the presidential race because of his more radical views.... (more)

February 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — In one of his few public statements since he was freed from captivity by Iran in January, Pastor Saeed Abedini told Newsmax on Thursday that he was opposed to the nuclear agreement the Obama administration made with the Tehran regime.... (more)

February 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — Guns fell silent across Syria on Saturday after a landmark UN-backed ceasefire came into effect, the first major truce in five years of civil war that have claimed more than 270,000 lives.... (more)

February 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Russia has long touted its military rearmament plan to achieve 30% modernization of the army and navy by 2020. Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced to the Federation Council the effort was significantly ahead of schedule, according to Russian state news agency TASS... (more)

February 26, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Welcome to Thunderdome. For long stretches, this was one of the best debates of the cycle; certainly the toughest, at times the nastiest, and sometimes the funniest and most fiery. Both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz sense that time is running out and they needed to start landing punches. They probably succeeded with Trump University.... (more)

February 26, 2016

PHILIP KLEIN — Donald Trump claimed during Thursday's Republican debate that he never said that government should pay for everybody to be covered by healthcare, but that's exactly what he said in a "60 Minutes" interview last fall.... (more)

February 26, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — During a wildly animated GOP debate Thursday evening, GOP front-runner Donald Trump asserted that, as president, he cannot side with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because doing so would "demean" Palestinians.... (more)

February 26, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Why would Mitt Romney go on national television and declare, "I think we have good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes. Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay"?... (more)

February 26, 2016

BOB UNRUH — Conservative commentator and speaker Ben Shapiro on Thursday spoke to an appreciative audience at California State-Los Angeles over a blaring fire alarm protesters rang to obstruct his speech and despite the front door to the auditorium being barricaded by a protest mob so audience members had to come in through a back door.... (more)

February 26, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — The Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services has decided to no longer ban foreigners with three particular sexually transmitted diseases from entering the country, leaving the past president of the American Association of American Physicians and Surgeons wondering what the administration possibly could be thinking.... (more)