May 10, 2016

No true friend of liberty can support either Clinton or Trump

ALAN KEYES — When, after consulting with his good buddy Bill Clinton, Donald Trump decided to enter the GOP primary process, some people had a hard time taking it seriously... (more)

May 9, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — A magazine called the Economist has an "intelligence unit" that has named a Donald J. Trump presidency as one of the top 10 greatest risks to global stability. Communist China and jihadi terrorism also made the list, but somehow the Obama administration and the Russian government were left off. Though flawed, the effort by the media to identify security risks is a good one. It is the big issue of our time.... (more)

May 9, 2016

LLOYD MARCUS — Rush Limbaugh said someone he thought was his friend texted the following during Cruz's speech suspending his campaign. "Thank God Cruz is done! I couldn't be happier. Listening to his sap makes me sick." Rush said the text made him furious. Here is the line in Cruz's speech that ticked off Rush's once assumed friend.... (more)

May 9, 2016

PATRICK GARRY, RA ANALYST — As reflected by the dramatic growth of government into new spheres of social and economic life during periods of "progressive" governance, progressives believe in government as the principal occupation and identity of America... (more)

May 8, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — It's been my great good fortune to know many patriotic Americans, a goodly number but by no means all of them conservatives, who are now supporters of Donald Trump. Similarly, many of my friends and allies in the conservative movement are immovably #NeverTrump... (more)

May 8, 2016

RUDY TAKALA — Hillary Clinton isn't likely to be indicted over accusations that she mishandled classified information, according to a former Justice Department official. But that doesn't mean she should be celebrating.... (more)

May 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — A federal judge has okayed depositions of eight people about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state -- and the Democratic presidential front-runner could ultimately be grilled as well, a Judicial Watch official tells Newsmax TV.... (more)

May 8, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Alabama's controversial Chief Justice, Roy Moore, was suspended without pay Friday and faces potential removal from office for violating judicial ethics by blocking the Supreme Court's ruling allowing same-sex marriage.... (more)

May 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Army's active force has shrunk to its lowest level since before World War II, Army Times reported Saturday. According to the military's headcount by the Defense Manpower Data Center, nearly 2,600 soldiers left active duty in March without being replaced, the news outlet reports, adding that during the past year, the size of the active forced has been reduced by 16,548 soldiers.... (more)

May 8, 2016

BOB UNRUH — North Korea, one of the world's worst oppressors of Christians, is suspected of invading China to kill a Chinese pastor who had been known to help refugees who fled the dictatorship of Kim Jong-un, according to an international ministry.... (more)

May 7, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump drove a wedge further between himself and top Republican leaders -- from House Speaker Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush and former President George W. Bush, to Sen. Lindsey Graham -- for refusing to support him.... (more)

May 7, 2016

NEWSMAX — Tom DeLay has written off both presumptive presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton -- telling Newsmax TV that the next commander in chief will have "no integrity."... (more)

May 7, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — A federal judge in San Diego has decided to put off until after the November presidential election a civil trial involving "Trump University." Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is a defendant in the suit. By the court's decision, Trump dodges a bullet: the case had been slated for trial this summer -- around the time of the GOP convention in July -- and could, at the very least, have been a major distraction from the campaign.... (more)

May 7, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — The United States recently saw its first Muslim-majority city council elected in Hamtramck, Michigan. But voters in Britain's capital and largest city just delivered an even bigger prize to Islam.... (more)

May 7, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rima Fakih, believed to be the first Muslim woman to be crowned Miss USA, has reportedly converted to Christianity. Ms. Fakih, a Lebanese-American who won Miss USA in 2010, converted last month in anticipation of her marriage to Wassim Salibi, a Christian music producer, Christian Today reported.... (more)

May 7, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Ben Rhodes, President Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, is highlighted in a recent piece by the New York Times which quotes Rhodes as admitting the Obama administration lied to the American people, Congress, and our allies in how they "spun" the Iran deal... (more)

May 7, 2016

BOB UNRUH — Talk-radio host Michael Savage recently warned his listeners that President Obama could "crash" the economy "on his way out the door." But there are indications the disintegration already has begun.... (more)

May 7, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of the international aid organization, Samaritan's Purse, took to Facebook Friday to issue a strong condemnation against President Obama's plans to declare a national monument in New York City in recognition of the "gay"-rights struggle.... (more)

May 6, 2016

NEWSMAX — House Speaker Paul Ryan took the extraordinary step of saying he isn't ready to support Donald Trump, and Trump fired right back, igniting a spat that pits one of the nation's most popular and prominent Republicans against his party's presumptive nominee.... (more)

May 6, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Paul Ryan dropped a bombshell on the Republican Party Thursday, refusing to endorse Donald Trump as its presidential nominee. The shock announcement escalated the House speaker's fight with the New York businessman over the direction of the GOP, deepening the rift between traditional, Reaganite conservatives and the surging, populist movement led by the presumptive nominee.... (more)

May 6, 2016

BYRON YORK — Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's highest-ranking official, stunned the political world Thursday when he announced he does not now support his party's presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and might not ever do so.... (more)

May 6, 2016

GARTH KANT — Life is imitating art in American politics. Quintus: "People should know when they are conquered." Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?" That fictional exchange from the film "Gladiator" reflects the real-life question of the day in Washington: Will those who dislike Donald Trump accept his victory as the GOP presidential nominee and support him, or field a third-party candidate of their own?... (more)

May 6, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Wall Street Journal claimed Thursday that Ben Carson said Donald Trump is considering picking a Democratic running mate. Yet the story as it appeared originally never showed the retired neurosurgeon saying this.... (more)

May 6, 2016

ASSOCIATED PRESS — The FBI has interviewed Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton, as part of a federal investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state, a person familiar with the probe said Thursday. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.... (more)

May 5, 2016

BARBWIRE — It is altogether fitting that Donald Trump became the all-but-certain presidential nominee of the Republican Party on the same day that he cited the ridiculous allegations of the National Enquirer that Ted Cruz's father, Rafael, had involvement in the assassination of JFK.... (more)