June 16, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — What difference does it make to use the phrase "radical Islam"? It means in the Orlando case that the terrorist is identified through his affiliation with a particular religion that sanctions death for homosexuals. It also means in the Orlando case that law enforcement authorities may get the idea or impression from the President of the United States that the religion of a suspect is NOT to be judged or pursued when questions emerge about Muslims having links to terrorism.... (more)

June 16, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Brushing aside warnings that they'll tip off terrorists to secret investigations, Democrats pressed ahead Wednesday with plans for new gun controls after the Orlando shooting, and even enlisted an unlikely potential ally -- Donald Trump, who said he's open to a discussion about banning firearm sales to those on the government's no-fly list.... (more)

June 16, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — A group of Democrats fueled by the Orlando LGBT nightclub murders committed by Omar Mateen -- a Muslim who touted his allegiance to ISIS during a 9-1-1 call placed amid the shootings -- are planning to slip a couple gun-control measures into a bill by Rep. Tim Murphy that's supposed to focus on mental health.... (more)

June 16, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — Just months after Department of Homeland Security advisers claimed "the threat from right-wing extremists domestically is just as real as the threat from Islamic extremism," DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is now suggesting his department should be in charge of implementing gun control. But media pioneer Matt Drudge reacted to Johnson's comments with his own demand.... (more)

June 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — That sound you hear is Republican elected officials beating a hasty retreat from their party's presumptive presidential nominee. Especially in Washington, Republicans are treating Donald Trump's presidential campaign like a sinking ship and are streaming toward the lifeboats.... (more)

June 16, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's social media shout-out to the LGBT community on Tuesday demonstrated another wrinkle in the GOP nominee's unpredictable run for the White House.... (more)

June 16, 2016

NEWSMAX — About 200 pages of what looks to be opposition research on Donald Trump stolen from the Democratic National Committee's files were dumped online Wednesday, according to Gawker, which published some of the files.... (more)

June 16, 2016

FOX NEWS — In the hours after he blasted his way into an Orlando gay nightclub, and with his victims lying dead or wounded around him, Omar Mateen took to Facebook to pledge his loyalty to ISIS and threaten more attacks on the civilized world, a key lawmaker privy to the gunman's posts told FoxNews.com Wednesday.... (more)

June 16, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — Sean Hannity's TV audience has been warned: The government has willfully deleted critical information that may have prevented two recent Islamic terror attacks on American soil. Appearing on the popular Fox News program "Hannity" Tuesday evening, former Department of Homeland Security officer Philip Haney said he was directed to delete hundreds of records he had compiled on various Muslim individuals and organizations with ties to terrorist groups.... (more)

June 16, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The Senate made history Tuesday by passing a $602 billion defense bill that crucially includes an amendment requiring women to register for the draft. The bill is supported by both Republicans and Democrats and expands military Selective Service requirements to female citizens aged 18-26. It could be implemented as early as 2018.... (more)

June 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, not one to shy away from Hollywood impersonations, gave a shout out Wednesday evening to a student whose presidential candidate impersonations at his middle school graduation has become a minor Internet sensation.... (more)

June 15, 2016

NEWSMAX — Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.... (more)

June 15, 2016

NEWSMAX — The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub could soon be charged in connection with the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.... (more)

June 15, 2016

NEW YORK POST — The ex-wife of Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen claimed Monday that she believed he was homosexual -- as it was revealed that he frequented the gay nightclub where he staged the nation's worst massacre in modern times.... (more)

June 15, 2016

BLOOMBERG — Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016 race.... (more)

June 15, 2016

NEWSMAX — The FBI is conducting a "criminal investigation" into Hillary Clinton's private email server, a federal judge has declared -- the first explicit confirmation refuting Clinton's referral to the probe as a "security review," reports say.... (more)

June 15, 2016

GREG COROMBOS — A former Department of Homeland Security official says it took him only a few hours to connect Sunday's Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando to December's carnage in San Bernardino, and he says the federal government's active refusal to acknowledge reality is "handcuffing" efforts to keep the American people safe.... (more)

June 15, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — According to Fox News, Omar Mateen, the jihadist who carried out the mass-murder attack at a gay nightclub in Florida this weekend, was a student of Marcus Robertson, an Orlando-based radical Muslim who once served as a bodyguard to Omar Abdel Rahman -- the notorious "Blind Sheikh" whom I prosecuted for terrorism crimes in the early to mid 1990s.... (more)

June 15, 2016

BOB UNRUH — The Obama administration has tried repeatedly to push more gun control through Congress, unsuccessfully. It still is trying its hand at a strategy of simply depriving people of their Second Amendment rights. Now it is signaling a new method, claiming that "gun control" is "part and parcel" of the federal government's responsibility for homeland security.... (more)

June 15, 2016

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — The two sides, despite what some media coverage may imply, are not equal. One candidate wants to take away your rights if you're a Muslim, a would-be immigrant or a reporter who does his job.... (more)

June 15, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump could really use Carly Fiorina's help right about now. The presumptive Republican nominee is running against Democrat Hillary Clinton, the first female standard bearer of a major party, and the debate has turned to national security in the wake of the Orlando terrorist attack.... (more)

June 14, 2016

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Every time presidential wannabe Mitt Romney opens his mouth these days, he hammers another nail into the already wobbly campaign to save this country from the destruction that awaits us if Hillary Clinton becomes our next president... (more)

June 14, 2016

ALAN KEYES — "Mr. Trump is the 'Tar Baby' candidate, set out in the field to lure anger-impaired conservatives into a trap." That's how I characterized Donald Trump in an article this past April. Now he has instigated a frenzy by suggesting that, on account of his Mexican heritage, the judge presiding in the lawsuit against Trump University is inherently biased against Mr. Trump because, as Trump regally proclaims, "I am building a wall" to keep Mexicans out of the United States.... (more)

June 14, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Admitting that "the full facts" were still unknown, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nevertheless issued a statement on Sunday afternoon on "the senseless act of domestic terrorism in Orlando," saying that "it is not surprising that the LGBT community was targeted" because "This community has long been vilified by those opposed to LGBT rights and is too often the target of violent hate crimes."... (more)

June 13, 2016

DAILY MAIL — ISIS has claimed responsibility for the the deadliest mass shooting in US history and says the gunman who slaughtered at least 50 innocent party-goers in an Orlando gay club was one of its fighters.... (more)