August 25, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Some of us in the media watchdog business think Americans are anxious to read every last word from the New York Times and the Washington Post. These are important papers that do help shape the national agenda. But many people look instead to publications like the National Enquirer – the tabloid solidly in the corner of Donald J. Trump, the one he used to smear Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Similarly... (more)

August 25, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — Is it a Google Earth road map? A snow camouflaged tent? Or a white marble-patterned hospital gown? America wants to know: Just what is Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton wearing these days? Clinton's attire stunned America when she attended a fundraiser in Cape Cod Sunday alongside singer and actress Cher.... (more)

August 25, 2016

NEWSMAX — Several former members of Sen. Ted Cruz's staff called out Donald Trump for softening his stance on immigration, with one calling it "a betrayal." "It vindicates the speech, it vindicates what Ted Cruz warned would happen during the course of the campaign," Chris Wilson, who served as the Cruz presidential campaign's director of research, analytics, and digital strategy, told Politico.... (more)

August 25, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL BOARD — Donald Trump began his presidential campaign with a commentary about immigration that jolted the race and indeed the very idea of what was advisable or acceptable for a candidate to say.... (more)

August 25, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — While many in the media have declared the presidential election all but over, damning accusations of pay to play at the Clinton Foundation and reports that the FBI found 15,000 work-related documents that Hillary Clinton failed to turn over represent the political land mines that still lie between her and the presidency. Multiple ongoing Freedom of Information Act civil suits, perjury allegations, an IRS probe and alleged joint U.S. Attorney-FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation represent the inescapable cloud of corruption that could be the Democratic nominee's undoing.... (more)

August 24, 2016

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — The snow fell slowly, in huge clusters of flakes, the wind barely there. Robie's General Store in Hookset was John Kasich's Arcadian backdrop for his final campaign event before the New Hampshire primary. Kasich beamed. It was a beautiful scene. The cinematic perfection wasn't lost on the candidate, who turned to everyone around him, including us reporters, and said, "Isn't this great? Don't you love this?"... (more)

August 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — The tumultuous presidential race in America is playing out against a backdrop of rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia -- and has already altered policy in Kiev and Moscow, according to a veteran Moscow-based journalist.... (more)

August 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money -- either personally or through companies or groups -- to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.... (more)

August 24, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — For our recent "Tricky Hillary" issue (National Review, Aug. 1, 2016, on NR Digital), I wrote a feature arguing that Mrs. Clinton should be impeached. Given that, through the last quarter-century of our politics, we have learned that pending Clinton scandals are interrupted only by new Clinton scandals, it comes as no surprise that my point has just been proven by a scandal that erupted last week.... (more)

August 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.... (more)

August 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz Tuesday accused the Obama administration of stonewalling Congress on how it paid $1.3 billion in taxpayer money to Iran along with the $400 million in cash for the release of five American hostages in January.... (more)

August 24, 2016

THE HILL — Last week the Obama Administration approved its largest-ever release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, sending 15 extremists back into the world. By now, the pattern has become familiar: the President lets hardened terrorists go free, Congress and the American people express outrage, and the White House ignores the uproar.... (more)

August 24, 2016

DAVID A. PATTEN — The mainstream media is doing such a fine job of heaping coals on the new Mark Burnett and Roma Downey epic, "Ben-Hur," that it might want to be careful. The intensity of their vituperation might just induce movie-goers -- particularly faith-oriented ones -- to go see what all the fuss is about.... (more)

August 24, 2016

BOB UNRUH — The Supreme Court in Pakistan is scheduled this fall to hear the case against Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five on death row since 2010 for violating the Muslim nation's notorious blasphemy law. In a report from International Christian Concern, legal advocate Said-ul-Malook said the hearing -- likely the last one in the case -- will be in October before the nation's Supreme Court.... (more)

August 24, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Andrea Tantaros says that at least three men repeatedly sexually harassed her when she worked as an on-air personality at the Fox News Network, the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. In a newly filed lawsuit, the "Tied Up In Knots" author alleges sexual harassment from fired network executive Roger Ailes, "O'Reilly Factor" anchor Bill O'Reilly and former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown.... (more)

August 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — One school district in Maryland thinks it has the "right answer" on how to deal with transgendered males on overnight field trips: they bunk with females and don't tell their parents. According to a story in The Washington Times, Anne Arundel County chief communications officer Bob Mosier produced a training video instructing teachers and administrators to withhold that information from parents to protect the privacy of the transgendered males.... (more)

August 23, 2016

NEW YORK MAGAZINE — Donald Trump did not win the Republican primary on the strength of his policy proposals. The GOP nominee won much of his party's Evangelical base despite betraying a profound ignorance of their views on abortion; he earned plenty of votes from conservatives who backed the Iraq War, despite deriding it as a total disaster; and he won the backing of countless opponents of Obama's stimulus package, despite running on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan.... (more)

August 23, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Turmoil in Donald Trump's campaign is eroding his claim to be a great manager -- one of the key boasts he's made in his bid for the presidency. Critics, including academics, Republican political strategists and at least one former Trump operative say that the seemingly constant hirings and firings at the top of Team Trump, and a failure to plan for the general election, undermine the idea that he is a talented boss.... (more)

August 23, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration acknowledged Monday that the FBI found at least 14,900 more email messages former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never turned over to the government, and officials are facing intense pressure to release them ahead of November's election.... (more)

August 23, 2016

NEWSMAX — A second cache of newly released emails during Hillary Clinton's stint at secretary of state glaringly illustrates how special access was given Clinton Foundation donors -- from Middle Eastern royalty to international sports and music stars -- by Clinton's staff, Judicial Watch charged Monday.... (more)

August 23, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — The woman who many say could be Hillary Clinton's White House chief of staff served for years as assistant editor of a Saudi-funded Muslim publication that opposed women's rights and blamed the U.S. for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, according to a new report.... (more)

August 23, 2016

INFOWARS — Google has altered its search algorithm to prevent searches for "Clinton body count" from auto-completing, despite the term auto-completing when typed in on virtually any other search engine.... (more)

August 23, 2016

BOB UNRUH — In a major blow to the Obama administration's alternative-sexual-behaviors agenda, a federal judge in Texas late Sunday night blocked the president's order to open public school restrooms and shower rooms according to "gender identity" and allow boys who believe they are girls to use girls' facilities.... (more)

August 23, 2016

BOB UNRUH — A major new study of sexuality and gender by two of the top experts in the field at Johns Hopkins University finds there's little scientific evidence for the "born that way" theory, nor is gender identity "an innate, fixed human property independent of biological sex." R... (more)

August 23, 2016

WALTER WILLIAMS — One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I'd like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people.... (more)