August 22, 2016

ALAN KEYES — On June 17, 2015, when Donald Trump was asked which of the four most recent presidents (Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, Obama) he thought was the best, he responded, "I would really say Clinton, probably, I would have to say Clinton." However, he went on to say that Clinton's problems with women "destroyed him." When Clinton's troubles with women were going on, however, Trump did his best to discredit Clinton's accusers. The Newsweek story detailing Trump's friendship with the Clintons reports that in one interview back in 1998 Trump called Paula Jones a "loser."... (more)

August 21, 2016

MICHAEL BARONE — Donald Trump has just made changes, again, in his campaign's top leadership, shoving aside the seasoned Paul Manafort and installing Breitbart News Chairman Steve Bannon and veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway. He's obviously acting in response to his falling poll numbers nationally, in target states. and even in some states that have been safely Republican in recent elections.... (more)

August 21, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — 'I think I unraveled her." That is Trump adviser Michael Cohen describing his encounter Wednesday with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar. What an unraveling looks like to Trump world:... (more)

August 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 8 percentage points among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday.... (more)

August 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump overhauled his campaign leadership Wednesday after former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes urged that a struggling Trump make dramatic changes, according to a person familiar with the matter.... (more)

August 21, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Casting his campaign chairman aside with just 11 weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump moved ahead with the reboot of his White House bid on Friday with a tour of flood-ravaged Louisiana.... (more)

August 21, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Imagine an American government official, interviewing an alien seeking admission to our country from, say, Syria: U.S. official: "Will you support the United States Constitution?"... (more)

August 20, 2016

NEWSMAX — Hillary Clinton is the clear front-runner in the presidential race, political analyst Larry Sabato said Friday, pointing to his new electoral map that shows the Democratic nominee is already far past the 270 Electoral College votes she needs to win the election.... (more)

August 20, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Hillary Clinton must answer under oath a set of written questions in a lawsuit against the State Department over her private emails, a federal judge ruled Friday.... (more)

August 20, 2016

NEWSMAX — Paul Manafort left Donald Trump's presidential effort on Friday because "he was asked," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said. "He was asked and he indeed tendered his resignation," Conway told WABC Radio host Rita Cosby in an interview. "Mr. Trump accepted his resignation and wished him well and thanked him for his service.... (more)

August 20, 2016

POLITICO — So much for the old accusation that the Republican Party has a "Cold War mentality." Or if it still does, it has switched sides. The 2016 presidential campaign continues to play out like a Christopher Buckley novel gone completely off the rails, perhaps most implausibly in Paul Manafort's role in the Russia-friendly Donald Trump campaign.... (more)

August 20, 2016

THE HILL — In late January, Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon was tipped off about a story that he hoped would damage Ted Cruz. Bannon, who this week became CEO of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, was told that a radio advertisement would be landing in Iowa aimed at hurting Cruz with evangelical voters -- the very constituency the senator was depending on to win the state's caucuses on Feb. 1.... (more)

August 20, 2016

OBSERVER POLITICS — In June, the hacker Guccifer 2.0 released internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) documents proving the DNC treated Hillary Clinton as their nominee before the primaries even began. Not long after these revelations came to light, the law firm Beck & Lee filed a class action lawsuit against now-former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters.... (more)

August 20, 2016

RADAR ONLINE — The party's over for Malia Obama! After RadarOnline.com released the shocking video of an eyewitness accusing President Obama's 18-year-old daughter of smoking pot, furious Barack confronted the teen on their summer vacation, said a source.... (more)

August 20, 2016

BOB UNRUH — A federal judge has ruled that a man who wanted to dress as a woman while working as a funeral director cannot impose his lifestyle choice on his employer, because it would conflict with the religious standards the company advocates.... (more)

August 20, 2016

JERRY NEWCOMBE — A remake of Ben-Hur movie is about to hit the movie screens. What's fascinating to me is the story behind the book, which has also inspired two previous movies -- the 1925 silent version and the 1959 movie-of-the-year, starring Charlton Heston. That version won 11 Oscars, more than any other movie before it and has only since been tied by Titanic (1997).... (more)

August 19, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump Thursday expressed "regret" over some of the incendiary remarks he has made during the presidential campaign -- vowing in North Carolina to "offer the American people a new future of honesty, justice, and opportunity."... (more)

August 19, 2016

NEWSMAX — Just one month after Republicans tried to unify in Cleveland, The Daily Beast reports that the effort appears to be over after Donald Trump hired Stephen Bannon as his new campaign chief executive -- a businessman and media executive known to "hate" the Republican establishment.... (more)

August 19, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL BOARD — House Republicans announced Thursday that they will hold hearings in September on whether Hillary Clinton committed perjury while testifying on Capitol Hill. At issue are four specific statements Clinton made under oath which appear to be false.... (more)

August 19, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy told Newsmax TV Thursday said the classified documents stemming from Hillary Clinton's FBI interview make the case that she didn't tell the truth.... (more)

August 19, 2016

THE SUN — AS many as 40,000 Russian troops are massing on the country's border with Ukraine -- prompting fears of a new military invasion. The Pentagon has identified eight staging areas dotted along the border, suggesting Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is preparing for new incursions.... (more)

August 19, 2016

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — This week Russian bombers flew out of Iranian air bases to attack rebel positions in Syria. The State Department pretended not to be surprised. It should be. It should be alarmed. Iran's intensely nationalistic revolutionary regime had never permitted foreign forces to operate from its soil. Until now.... (more)

August 19, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — I believe that Vladimir Putin came to power as the result of an act of terror committed against his own people. The evidence is overwhelming that the apartment-house bombings in 1999 in Moscow, Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, which provided a pretext for the second Chechen war and catapulted Putin into the presidency, were carried out by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)... (more)

August 19, 2016

RUDY TAKALA — On Wednesday the Washington Examiner reported that the Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months.... (more)

August 19, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The U.S. Air Force has removed a Bible from an officer's desk while it carries out an investigation into the propriety of the religious display. The Scriptures were removed from the desk of Maj. Steve Lewis of the 310th Space Wing in response to a letter sent Wednesday by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which said the holy book's presence violates Air Force policy and the Constitution's establishment clause.... (more)