June 9, 2016

RED STATE — Whoa. This morning talk show host Hugh Hewitt called for the GOP convention to change the rules to allow for an alternative candidate to be selected. (Full disclosure, Hewitt is affiliated with Salem Media Group which owns RedState.)... (more)

June 9, 2016

DAVID FRENCH — Let's begin with a simple proposition: As a matter of law and history, there is not a single "bound" delegate to the Republican National Convention. Not one delegate is required to vote for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or any other individual who "won" votes in the primary process. Each delegate will have to make his or her own choice. They -- and they alone -- will choose the Republican nominee.... (more)

June 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former Republican Rep. Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV he's still waiting for Donald Trump to tell him where he stands on issues. "He is what he is, we've seen up close and personal during the primaries and I think we should expect exactly what we're getting," DeLay told host Ed Berliner on "The Hard Line" Wednesday.... (more)

June 9, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — President Obama's plan to turn over control of the Internet to an international organization that could curb freedom of speech is facing a new obstacle with the introduction on Wednesday of a bill... (more)

June 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — A Florida woman sent a letter to the doctor who suggested she consider having an abortion because she was pregnant with a Down Syndrome child -- who is now 15 months old.... (more)

June 9, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The U.S. Supreme Court this week handed victory to another private-property owner in a long series of fights against federal regulators, essentially overturning a lower court's decision that gave a totalitarian power to the government to impose use regulations on private land -- and prevent the owners from appealing... (more)

June 9, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Hillary Clinton is confident the FBI is not going to recommend she be prosecuted for possibly mishandling classified information on the private email server she kept as secretary of state. "That is not going to happen," Clinton told Fox News' Bret Baier during her first extended interview with the network in more than two years... (more)

June 8, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — The media have given the misleading impression that the policies of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-declared socialist, are radically different from those of President Obama or Hillary Clinton. In reality, they all propose to use government power to control the economy by either confiscating the assets of private firms or running them out of business.... (more)

June 8, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Steve Lonegan, the New Jersey state director of Ted Cruz's defunct presidential campaign, called for a delegate revolt on Tuesday. Lonegan told CNN he would not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, and said "this is turning out to be a debacle." The former Republican senatorial candidate in the Garden State said Trump has a big problem if he gets under 80 percent of the vote while running unopposed.... (more)

June 8, 2016

THE HILL — The behavior of the GOP's supposed nominee threatens his nomination at the Republican convention. 1. On May 3, Donald Trump effectively became the GOP nominee. Since then, he has not grown as a candidate nor has his campaign evolved into anything close to a general-election- ready political machine.... (more)

June 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Rev. Franklin Graham said that he was not endorsing any presidential candidates -- "but I am appealing to all Americans to pray" because "this nation is in serious trouble."... (more)

June 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he's still "assessing" whether he'll vote for Donald Trump in November, defending a "watch-and-wait" attitude as "the way the democratic process is meant to operate."... (more)

June 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — Meryl Streep played Donald Trump alongside Christine Baranski, who portrayed Hillary Clinton, during the annual Shakespeare in the Park Public Theater Gala in New York City on Monday.... (more)

June 8, 2016

NEWSMAX — CNN anchor Jake Tapper ripped reporters' "ridiculously sycophantic" questions to Hillary Clinton at a Monday news conference, saying the media hasn't applied the same standard with Donald Trump.... (more)

June 8, 2016

THE HILL — Conservative businessman Warren Davidson won the special election on Tuesday to fill former Speaker John Boehner's vacant House seat in Ohio. Davidson prevailed in a crowded 15-way GOP primary in March and immediately became the expected successor in the heavily Republican district.... (more)

June 8, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — Too many social problems are conceived of in terms of what "we" can do for "them." After decades of massive expansions of the welfare state, the answer seems to range from "not very much" to "making matters worse."... (more)

June 8, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Libertarian presidential nominee and admitted marijuana user Gary Johnson has promised to lay off the substance if he's elected president. The former governor of New Mexico told The Hill during a Facebook Live interview Monday that he used marijuana recreationally "as recently as a month ago," but he vowed to abstain for the rest of his campaign and during his presidency if he should win.... (more)

June 7, 2016

CHARLES HURT — Anyone who treasures integrity in the federal judiciary cannot help but cringe every time Donald J. Trump complains about the federal judge handling the class-action lawsuit against him on the grounds that the judge is of Mexican descent.... (more)

June 6, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Donald Trump suffered stinging rebukes from every side Monday but refused to back down from his remarks about the Mexican heritage of a federal judge, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's unapologetic off-the-cuff style this time threatened to inflict serious damage.... (more)

June 6, 2016

BYRON YORK — How did the controversy begin over Donald Trump's attacks on the judge in the Trump University lawsuit? It began when Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit.... (more)

June 6, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — Among the many disturbing signs of our times are conservatives and libertarians of high intelligence and high principles who are advocating government programs that relieve people of the necessity of working to provide their own livelihoods.... (more)

June 6, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama downplayed his role in the transgender bathroom controversy Wednesday, saying he hasn't pushed the issue in his administration and he believes there are "more pressing" problems in the country. "Somehow people think that I made it an issue. I didn't make it an issue," Mr. Obama said at a town-hall-style event in Elkhart, Indiana.... (more)

June 6, 2016

BOB UNRUH — ISIS, the army of Islamic terrorists controlling large portions of Syria and Iraq, quickly established itself as a potent monster with its firing squad executions, its beheadings and even crucifixions. It soon added the dropping of victims into water while they were confined in cages along with dissolving victims in acid.... (more)

June 6, 2016

The high cost of abandoning 'the authority of empirical science'

ALAN KEYES — Insofar as the life of the American people requires a basis in common humanity for recognizing and evaluating empirical facts, America's Founders made empirical science the practical standard for our factual judgments. Empirical science has increased in importance as knowledge derived from it has become the context for an ever increasing proportion of our everyday life and commerce.... (more)

June 5, 2016

STEVE DEACE — There is a reason the Constitutional Convention was not viewed as an elitist coup back in 1787. The smart, privileged white guys who ordained the Miracle in Philadelphia knew that its blessings would be stillborn unless they handed the final say on the matter to someone other than themselves. That would be "We, the people."... (more)