August 4, 2016

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — If any one issue can save an otherwise flailing effort to stop Hillary Clinton from her path to the White House, it will be her handing the potential keys to America's ultimate destruction into the hands of America's enemies... (more)

August 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — A new Fox News poll shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump by 10 points. Though 62 percent of poll respondents say they see Clinton as dishonest, they nevertheless view the former secretary of state as more qualified for the highest office in the land than the brash, billionaire businessman.... (more)

August 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's most recent verbal slips and public battles are scaring away large potential donors as they fear what the undisciplined and politically unrefined Republican nominee might say or do next in a faltering campaign, The Hill reported Wednesday.... (more)

August 4, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — I honestly don't know what Donald Trump is doing. Dominating the news cycle helped him win the Republican primary, but the chaos he created Tuesday has left my head spinning. First there was the crying baby he supposedly threw out at his Virginia rally. That seemed like stupid, media hype, so I ignored it.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES — Donald J. Trump's unabashed and continuing hostility toward the parents of a slain Muslim American soldier, and his attacks on Republican leaders who have rebuked him for it, threaten to shatter his uneasy alliance with the Republican Party at the outset of the general election campaign.... (more)

August 3, 2016

ABC NEWS — Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out? ABC News has learned that senior party officials are so frustrated -- and confused -- by Donald Trump's erratic behavior that they are exploring how to replace him on the ballot if he drops out.... (more)

August 3, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — On a campaign swing through the "Rust Belt" of Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton let the truth slip out, saying that the white working class had been "left out and left behind." Mrs. Clinton was appearing in Cambria County, which is more than 94 percent white.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEWSMAX — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to eight percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, from six points on Friday.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEWSMAX — Advisers worried that Donald Trump is veering off topic to "take the bait every time" from critics are urging the GOP nominee to get back on track and focus on the issues that have resonated with voters, The Hill reports.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEWSMAX — As the controversy over Donald Trump's critical comments about the family of fallen U.S. solider Captain Humayun Khan crescendoed over the weekend, there was one voice from inside the campaign that tried to tamp it down: Mike Pence.... (more)

August 3, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans rallied to Donald Trump in July, but the good feelings have quickly faded as the billionaire businessman struggles to keep his foot out of his mouth -- and to keep GOP voters from jumping ship.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEWSMAX — A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's pretrial bid to win a lawsuit brought by Trump University students who said they were defrauded into signing up for its real-estate seminars.... (more)

August 3, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders at last week's convention still aren't sold on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a survey of Sanders delegates released Tuesday that found few of them were won over by the four days of speeches urging unity.... (more)

August 3, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — As U.S. armed forces attack ISIS in Libya, WikiLeaks is poised to remind us that ISIS is in Libya -- indeed, that ISIS is ISIS -- thanks to disastrous policies championed by Hillary Clinton as President Obama's secretary of state. Also raised, yet again, is the specter of Mrs. Clinton's lying to Congress and the American people -- this time regarding a matter some of us have been trying for years to get answers about: What mission was so important the United States kept personnel in the jihadist hellhole of Benghazi in 2012?... (more)

August 3, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — The good news is that both political conventions are now behind us. The bad news is that the election is ahead of us. No one knows how this election will turn out but – given the awful presidential candidates in both parties – the worst case scenario may be only marginally worse than the best case scenario.... (more)

August 3, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — WND reported the story two months ago when Mitchell made the claim. It came on a bad day for now-Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. First, then-GOP presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump ripped away the "philandering husband" façade from Bill Clinton, publicly charging on Fox News' "Hannity" that the former president committed "rape."... (more)

August 3, 2016

MICHELLE MALKIN — Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient Captain Humayun Khan died heroically. But his exceptional courage in Iraq and his Muslim father's post-Democratic-convention histrionics on TV do not erase the security threat posed by killer warriors of Allah infiltrating our troops.... (more)

August 3, 2016

WALL STREET JOURNAL — he Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.... (more)

August 3, 2016

NEWSMAX — Pope Francis has lamented that children, as he puts it, are being taught at school that gender can be a choice. Francis said: "Today, in schools they are teaching this to children -- to children! -- that everyone can choose their gender."... (more)

August 3, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The social networking giant Twitter is facing serious problems as it is reporting disappointing earnings to stockholders even as it struggles to grow, or even maintain, its user base. In the latest quarter, its cash flow estimate was cut by $80 million, leading to another plunge in the stock price.... (more)

August 2, 2016

NEWSMAX — Hillary Clinton has gotten a nice, 7-point bounce from her party's convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.... (more)

August 2, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton became their party's nominee for president thanks to just 9 percent of Americans, according to a breakdown in The New York Times.... (more)

August 2, 2016

A meditation on faith in God

ALAN KEYES — As a respite from pondering the reasons for sorrow and concern about the state of public and political affairs in the United States in this election cycle, I found myself meditating on the deeply hopeful inspiration that comes of having faith in God and Jesus Christ.... (more)

August 2, 2016

WES VERNON — Listening to the Democrat delegates in Philadelphia chant "Not a clue," in response to Joe Biden's charge that Donald Trump doesn't have a clue as to what motivates and animates the middle class, does prompt a certain amount of sympathy for the soon-to-be-exiting vice president.... (more)

July 31, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's convention speech has received the least positive reviews of any speech Gallup has ever tested, the survey company said in a report Friday.... (more)