September 26, 2016

The choice we face is not 'between Trump and Hillary'

ALAN KEYES — I often hear the argument that the 2016 election is a binary election, offering no choice but Trump or Clinton. If neither of the candidates represents you, this "binary" choice is no election at all. Yet representation is the defining practical goal of the U.S. Constitution. Turning voters into quantities that must go one way or another, according to the programming of an elitist clique that has abandoned America's common good, reduces human beings to irresponsible objects, doomed to follow the dictates of their master programmers.... (more)

September 26, 2016

BILL FEDERER — Daniel Boone served with George Washington in 1755 during the French and Indian War, under British General Edward Braddock. In 1765, Daniel Boone explored Florida. He once exclaimed: "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."... (more)

September 26, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have uncharacteristically managed to keep the number of headlines about themselves to a minimum for the past few days. That is sure to change Monday during the first presidential debate.... (more)

September 26, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Following in Newt Gingrich's moon base footsteps, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson believes that humans need to boldly go where no man has gone before.... (more)

September 26, 2016

MIKE LEE — In "Our Lost Constitution", Senator Mike Lee tells the dramatic, little-known stories behind six of the Constitution's most indispensable provisions. He shows their rise. He shows their fall. And he makes vividly clear how nearly every abuse of federal power today is rooted in neglect of this Lost Constitution. Examined are the Origination Clause, the Legislative Powers Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Balance of Powers and the Second and Fourth Amendments. Each has been used at some time in our Nation's history by shortsighted opportunists to defy the Constitution's safeguards to liberty.... (more)

September 25, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Both sides of the abortion debate are clamoring for NBC's Lester Holt, the moderator of Monday's presidential debate, to broach the subject of abortion in America with the candidates... (more)

September 25, 2016

DAVID FRENCH — The dominoes are falling -- as we knew they would. On Friday, Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump, just weeks after a mic-dropping moment at the Republican National Convention, where he pointedly refused to endorse the man who insulted his wife and accused his father of conspiring to kill JFK. Instead, in the face of a chorus of boos, he urged delegates to vote their conscience. The implication was clear – a conservative of conscience should not support Trump.... (more)

September 25, 2016

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER — Video footage released Saturday shows Keith Lamont Scott taking four steps slowly backward with his arms at his sides when he is hit in a burst of four gunshots from police, then crumples to the pavement.... (more)

September 25, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In a time when "narrative" has supplanted factual reporting, Fox's Bret Baier's evening news program is usually an oasis in the desert. So I winced when he asserted, amid Thursday's report on the deadly Charlotte rioting -- euphemized by the media as "unrest" and "protest" -- that blacks are significantly more likely than whites to be killed by police.... (more)

September 25, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — They should have been deported, but hundreds of illegal immigrants from dangerous countries were instead granted citizenship by Homeland Security because officials never checked their fingerprints to find out their real identities, the department's inspector general said in a staggering report Monday.... (more)

September 25, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — A top Republican is warning House lawmakers to reconsider a vote to override President Obama's veto of a bill allowing Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.... (more)

September 25, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — In an email thick with the language of the bureaucracies, National Transportation Safety Board chairman Christopher Hart eliminated any realistic hope of re-opening the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800, the 747 destroyed off the Long Island coast in July 1996.... (more)

September 24, 2016

POLITICO — Minutes before Ted Cruz took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick cornered the senator, huddling with him in a last-ditch effort to coax an endorsement of Donald Trump. It didn't work.... (more)

September 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — Americans have negative views of both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. He comes off as a little worse. In a new Associated Press-GfK poll, she's viewed as more qualified, civil and compassionate than Trump, but voters are somewhat more likely to view her as corrupt.... (more)

September 24, 2016

NBC NEWS — Unsettling footage obtained by NBC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. The video, taken by Scott's wife, does not clearly show the exact moment he was shot by police on Tuesday. Scott is seen on the ground surrounded by police officers moments after the shots were fired.... (more)

September 24, 2016

HEAT STREET — Violence again erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina, following a police shooting that left an armed black man dead. But the national media are largely ignoring -- or burying -- a key fact about the case in order to fit Charlotte into a larger "trend" of racially charged cop shootings nationwide: the police officer involved in the Charlotte shooting was black.... (more)

September 24, 2016

POLITICO — President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday. The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton's private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.... (more)

September 24, 2016

THE HILL — President Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S courts, setting up a high-stakes showdown with Congress. "I recognize that there is nothing that could ever erase the grief the 9/11 families have endured," Obama wrote in his veto message. "Enacting JASTA into law, however would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks."... (more)

September 24, 2016

BLOOMBERG — Carbon dioxide doesn't kill climates; people do. And the world would be better off with fewer of them. That's a glib summary of a serious and seriously provocative book by Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University.... (more)

September 24, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Georgia woman exercised her Second Amendment rights early Friday morning and repelled three armed home invaders, killing one. Surveillance video from a Gwinnett County home just outside Atlanta shows a woman charging forward at three men who just broken into the house at about 4 a.m., authorities said. The local restaurant manager unloaded all her rounds in self-defense, resulting in the death of one suspect in the driveway.... (more)

September 23, 2016

RENEWAMERICA — Recently, actor Zach Galifianakis sat down with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on his show "Between Two Ferns" and asked her a barrage of pointed questions everyone else is asking themselves. The most relevant, undoubtedly, was, "As Secretary, how many words per minute could you type?" – followed by "How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?" Midway through the six-minute exchange, Hillary remarked, "I really regret doing this." CLICK HERE to see the full interview on YouTube.... (more)

September 23, 2016

RUDY TAKALA — The Obama administration should put the brakes on a transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority away from U.S. control scheduled to take place at the end of the month, a regulator on the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.... (more)

September 23, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on Sept. 16 has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler filed the charges Thursday against Officer Betty Shelby, 42, after she was captured on video shooting Terence Crutcher, 40.... (more)

September 23, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The House's investigative committee voted Thursday to hold Hillary Clinton's chief tech staffer in contempt of Congress after Bryan Pagliano failed, for a second time, to show up and testify about the secret emails of his former boss.... (more)

September 23, 2016

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Former Speaker of the House John Boehner has cashed out, and nobody is surprised. Boehner, as he passes through the revolving door to K Street lobbying giant Squire Patton Boggs, is following a road well traveled.... (more)