June 20, 2016

Both enemies 'pose an existential threat to our survival'

ALAN KEYES — [This is the second in a series of articles pondering the strategic significance of the Orlando massacre. The first appeared earlier this week.]... (more)

June 20, 2016

ROBERT KNIGHT — In the year 64 AD, much of Rome was destroyed by a massive fire. An outraged populace blamed the Emperor Nero, who had wanted to rebuild the city his way. The historian Tacitus tells us what happened next: "Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called 'Christians' by the populace.... (more)

June 19, 2016

REV. MARK CREECH — I adored my father. Everything I have ever written about my relationship with him has been positive. Still, our bond was not always so tight. In fact, it was so strained at one point; I didn't speak to him for two years. I was angry for both real and perceived slights.... (more)

June 19, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — The media say President Obama is good at sharing condolences with victims of terrorism. It would be better for him to apologize to the victims and their families. He should start by saying, "I'm sorry that my FBI failed to stop this radical Islamic killer. I bear responsibility for this failure of intelligence."... (more)

June 19, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump -- already the bane of many establishment Republicans -- is now in a new battle with the GOP rank-and-file over gun control measures. The Washington Post reports that Trump's surprise call for congressional action on new gun-control legislation is getting the cold shoulder from his party and will likely pit GOP lawmakers against their presumptive presidential nominee.... (more)

June 19, 2016

THE EDITORS OF NATIONAL REVIEW — The Left is fixated for cultural reasons on firearms, which are associated in the suburban minds of sociology professors with backward rural life and government-mistrusting Second Amendment activists. Hence, Democrats constantly are seeking gun-control solutions to problems that have little or nothing to do with gun control, and hence the entirely unsurprising call by Hillary Rodham Clinton and others, in the bloody aftermath of Orlando, for a renewed ban on so-called assault weapons.... (more)

June 19, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Washington Post on Friday gave Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., three Pinocchios for claiming on the Senate floor this week that states with tougher gun laws are seeing fewer homicides.... (more)

June 19, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Barack Obama has spent his presidency cultivating Islamists, particularly from the international Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates in the United States. As we saw this week, he chafes at the term "radical Islam" -- as do his Islamist advisers. At their insistence, he had instructional materials for training government agents purged of references to Islamic terms that illuminate the nexus between Muslim doctrine and jihadist terror.... (more)

June 19, 2016

DANIEL PIPES — Many pieces of evidence argue for Barack Obama having been born and raised a Muslim: (1) Islam is a patrilineal religion: In Islam, the father passes his faith to the children, and when a Muslim man has children with a non-Muslim woman, Islam considers those children Muslim. Mr. Obama's grandfather and father having been Muslims -- the extent of their piety matters not at all -- means that in Muslim eyes, Mr. Obama was born a Muslim.... (more)

June 19, 2016

PHILIP KLEIN — Have you seen the polls lately? It's incredible. Everybody was saying, all of Trump's supporters were saying, they were telling me, they said, Hillary is toast. Trump was going to win win win. Now I'm looking at polls, and he's like going down down down all of a sudden. It's unbelievable. Wow!... (more)

June 19, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Some conservative Republicans disgusted by Donald Trump's offensive, scorched-earth campaign have long suspected their party's nominee to be secretly in league with his erstwhile friends Bill and Hillary Clinton. They wonder whether Bill Clinton and Trump worked out an agreement -- perhaps during the course of that "casual" phone call between the two last May -- designed to hand Hillary Clinton the White House while tarnishing the GOP's brand for a generation.... (more)

June 19, 2016

JOHN FUND — It's been exactly a year since Donald Trump rode the escalator down to the lobby of Trump Tower to announce for president. We now see the spectacle of Trump holding the entire Republican party hostage and much of the party leadership struck with a form of Stockholm syndrome. That's defined as a situation where hostages identify with and defend their captor -- in this case, Trump.... (more)

June 19, 2016

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — When in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech Barry Goldwater declared that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," a reporter sitting near journalist/historian Theodore White famously exclaimed: "My God, he's going to run as Barry Goldwater!"... (more)

June 19, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson denied 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney's claim that "marijuana makes people stupid." "I do not agree with that," Johnson told CNN correspondent Erin Burnett in an interview that will air Sunday. "As someone who has used marijuana, I do not agree with that."... (more)

June 18, 2016

NEW YORK POST — House Speaker Paul Ryan is backing Donald Trump but says other Republicans will have to make their own decisions because "it's a very strange situation."... (more)

June 18, 2016

THE DAILY BEAST — New questions about the integrity of Donald Trump's income tax returns, and new indications that he does not pay income taxes, arise from rulings in two tax appeals that Trump filed in the 1990s. Trump lost both cases. Trump's 1984 federal income tax return included a Schedule C, the form used by sole proprietors, the decision in the first case shows.... (more)

June 18, 2016

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Recent weeks have not been kind to the Grand Old Party. Republicans have been embarrassed by Donald Trump's racist attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a fraud lawsuit against Trump University. They have watched him assault popular GOP leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez. Many among the party faithful are realizing that Mr. Trump may flame out before Election Day – and that he could bring the party's slate of candidates down with him.... (more)

June 18, 2016

POLITICO — Donald Trump will head to Nevada on Saturday, but some of the most committed local Republicans won't be rolling out the welcome mat for his Las Vegas rally. Nevada Mormons, a relatively small but influential bloc within the state party, are struggling to get comfortable with the GOP nominee. And in contrast to previous years – especially 2012, when fellow Mormon Mitt Romney led the Republican ticket – many leaders in the Latter-day Saints community have no interest in activating their extensive networks and grassroots infrastructure on his behalf.... (more)

June 18, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The populist uprising against phony "free trade" and Republicans who love it has taken its first scalp. Rep. Randy Forbes, GOP establishment stalwart and longtime Obamatrade supporter from Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, will soon be unemployed. Voters rejected him in favor of his primary opponent Scott Taylor, who stridently opposed Obamatrade.... (more)

June 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz Thursday ripped Democratic senators for their 15-hour filibuster Wednesday to get the chamber to vote for several gun-control measures next week, calling it "a political show on the Senate floor."... (more)

June 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Liberals are perfectly happy to accept a man who "presents" as female as a woman and vice versa, but they won't admit a terrorist who "presents" as Muslim is indeed a Muslim, says talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.... (more)

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)