July 11, 2016

FBI director Comey sacrifices justice, national security to Hillary's ambition

ALAN KEYES — When she served as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton occupied a position imbued with great responsibility for national security. She now seeks the presidency, wherein that responsibility is greatest of all. Whether or not she is indicted for her violation of the law, common sense insists that the facts, as FBI Director Comey has presented them, prove her unfit for the duties she aspires to assume.... (more)

July 11, 2016

RED STATE — Today the court ruled in favor of Carroll "Beau" Correll in his lawsuit alleging that Virginia law binding delegates is unconstitutional.... (more)

July 11, 2016

DAILY WIRE — Over the weekend, The Daily Wire had the opportunity to speak with Kendal Unruh, a member of the Colorado Republican delegation to the Republican National Convention. Unruh is also a member of the Rules Committee at the RNC, and a leading advocate for a vote that would unbind the delegates from the candidates to which their state primaries are pledged.... (more)

July 11, 2016

STEFANI WILLIAMS — When Donald Trump entered the presidential race in June 2015, I decided to give him a look. After I paid close attention, however, he completely lost me. He lost me because his statements were erratic, contradictory, and untrustworthy, and many of his positions were actually very liberal.... (more)

July 11, 2016

NEWSMAX, APR. 22, 2016 — Donald Trump has established a history of acceptance of gay people, which runs counter to many views in the Republican Party. "He will be the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever," Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, told the New York Times.... (more)

July 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — The anti-Donald Trump activists have come up with a Plan B if their efforts to stop the real estate mogul from receiving the GOP nomination fail -- give delegates at the Republican National Convention the authority to choose the vice presidential candidate, NBC News reports.... (more)

July 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — Influential Republican and philanthropist Earle Mack is urging GOP convention delegates to vote their consciences next week -- even if that does not mean voting for the presumptive nominee Donald Trump.... (more)

July 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — Dallas Police Chief David Brown's sorrow over the sniper slayings of five law enforcement officers has captured his city's public grief -- but is even more profound because of his personal history of loss.... (more)

July 11, 2016

JOSEPH FARAH — I had written a column for today about the shocking incidents last week in which cops in Baton Rouge and near St. Paul, Minnesota, killed two black men -- seemingly without any rational justification. There was disturbing video of one incident and the aftermath of the other.... (more)

July 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — The number of FBI gun-related background checks in June broke an agency record, and puts the nation on track to smash the 2015 record. The FBI, in its reporting of gun background checks -- a figure that the agency says isn't a one-to-one correlation to gun sales -- said it processed more than 2.1 million gun-related checks in June, an increase of more than 600,000 over the previous record set last year.... (more)

July 11, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — It appears Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a problem reaching Bill proportions -- meaning Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby. Following the filing of a lawsuit by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson about a series of unwanted sexual propositions from her boss, her attorney says other women are coming out of the woodwork with similar stories dating back to the 1960s.... (more)

July 10, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Two churches are fighting back against the Iowa Civil Rights Commission after the agency issued an interpretation of state law that could bar churches from expressing biblical views on sexuality and gender identity -- even from the Sunday pulpit.... (more)

July 10, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Legal ownership of weapons is creating tensions between police officers and communities, President Obama said to buttress his call for tighter gun laws.... (more)

July 10, 2016

MICHAEL BARONE — When the Republican and Democratic national conventions gather in successive weeks in Cleveland and Philadelphia, one item on their plates will be reconsideration of their parties' nominating rules. Just about everyone agrees that they are in some respect or another unsatisfactory, and many itch to do something about it.... (more)

July 9, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — She's now a pro-abortion feminist who panders to the LGBTQ community. But there was a time when Hillary Clinton was a "Goldwater Girl," named for 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, and conservative in her political outlook. All of that changed when she went to college and attended Wellesley and Yale.... (more)

July 9, 2016

NBC-DFW — A North Texas Army veteran has been identified as the lone gunman responsible for the sniper attacks that killed five police officers and injured seven others in Dallas, authorities say. Micah Xavier Johnson, of Mesquite, ambushed officers at a peaceful protest against nationwide police-involved shootings in Dallas on Thursday, police said.... (more)

July 9, 2016

STAR-TELEGRAM — When Dallas police used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper, they also kicked off an ethical debate about technology's use as a crime-fighting weapon.... (more)

July 9, 2016

DAILY MAIL — The man who shot 12 police officers, killing five, at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas on Thursday night has been named as Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old Army reservist with no criminal history or ties to terror groups. Johnson, from Mesquite, Texas, a 20-minute drive from Dallas, reportedly told law enforcement that he was a veteran, and claimed to have acted alone, countering initial reports that as many as four gunmen were involved in the massacre.... (more)

July 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama called for gun control action in his statement denouncing the "senseless murders" of five Dallas police officers, Fox News reports. In addition to the five killed, seven were wounded by sniper fire during a Black Lives Matter protest over the recent police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.... (more)

July 9, 2016

GARTH KANT — One of the nation's leading experts on law enforcement and race sees a cause and effect relationship between the president's rhetoric and the murder of five police officers in Dallas... (more)

July 9, 2016

MIRROR — A Facebook page claiming to represent a black power group has posted messages claiming responsibility for the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. The so-called Black Power Political Organization claimed on its Facebook account that it was behind the attack in which cops were picked out from an 'elevated position' - believed to be a multi-storey car park.... (more)

July 9, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In a quarter century in law enforcement, I never encountered anyone more confident, or with more reason to be confident, than Jim Comey. The former Bush Justice Department deputy attorney general turned Obama Justice Department director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has earned bipartisan plaudits for a reason: He is as able as it gets.... (more)

July 8, 2016

NBC DFW — Five officers are dead – four Dallas police officers and one DART transit officer – after two snipers ambushed and opened fire on police at the end of a peaceful protest against nationwide officer-involved shootings Thursday night, officials say.... (more)

July 8, 2016

FOX NEWS — Newly unearthed photos of President Obama in Muslim garb underscore his deep ties to the faith – and possibly help explain his reluctance to call out radical Islam, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said Wednesday.... (more)

July 8, 2016

CNN — As competing factions' maneuvering around the Republican National Convention comes down to the wire, eyes are starting to focus on one senator to determine whether the gathering is good or bad for Donald Trump.... (more)