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October 21, 2016
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Suicidal democracy
Ronald R. Cherry

October 21, 2016
WES VERNON — "It doesn't seem to matter anymore. No matter which way you turn, no matter which exit you try to make a mad dash for (figuratively speaking), you barely miss getting beyond the gate that slams shut in your face." Sound familiar? That was the lead warning in this column May 4, 2015, titled "Don't you get it? We're surrounded."... (more)


October 20, 2016
CLIFF KINCAID — I was disinvited from a college debate on the campus of the State University of New York in New Paltz last March. Left-wing professors didn't want to hear me debate a left-winger on media coverage of the elections. It was the first time in academic history, to my knowledge, that an actual debate was cancelled because of faculty objections to one side of the debate.... (more)


October 20, 2016
BYRON YORK — Standing in a garish hotel lobby, casino music pounding, a Republican who has worked hard to help Donald Trump couldn't quite believe how the final presidential debate had ended just a couple of hours earlier.... (more)


October 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Threatening to upend a fundamental pillar of American democracy, Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday night that he will accept the results of next month's election if he loses to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee declared Trump's resistance "horrifying."... (more)


October 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's refusal in Wednesday night's debate to say whether he would accept the November election results if Hillary Clinton won brought widespread attacks across the political spectrum.... (more)


October 20, 2016
WASHINGTON TIMES — Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of being "a puppet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged voters to send a signal in this presidential election by rejecting the kind of candidate who has been accused of demeaning and assaulting women, mocking the disabled and inciting violence, as the two candidates faced off Wednesday in their final debate.... (more)


October 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Donald Trump "did OK" in his final debate with Hillary Clinton on Wednesday -- "but probably not well enough to expand his base," because he lacked proper preparation, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV.... (more)


October 20, 2016
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Sen. Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War, and said she learned from her mistake. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the Obama administration into a war in Libya.... (more)


October 20, 2016
PHILIP KLEIN — The outcome of Wednesday's debate is pretty straight-forward: Donald Trump has lost the presidential election -- it just won't be official for another few weeks.... (more)


October 20, 2016
WASHINGTON TIMES — Donald Trump's electoral map looks worse than Mitt Romney's did four years ago at this point in the race, upending the billionaire businessman's claim that his unorthodox appeal would be able to put new states in play for the GOP. He has done just that -- only it's mostly been in the wrong direction, leaving him struggling to win states that have been deep red for generations.... (more)


October 20, 2016
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday called for a "serious criminal investigation" into the dozens of White House visits that Robert Creamer made to the White House since 2009.... (more)


October 20, 2016
THE TELEGRAPH — Russia has begun its biggest surface deployment since the end of the Cold War as it aims to effectively end the war in Syria on the eve of the US election, Nato officials warned last night.... (more)


October 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Despite U.S. declarations that Russia is violating the landmark 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), Moscow appears to be continuing with a program to produce a ground-launched cruise missile, U.S. officials told The New York Times.... (more)


October 20, 2016
THE SUN — ROYAL Navy sailors track a menacing fleet of Russian warships as they carry out practice bombing sorties off the Scottish coast, in dramatic images released today. Our boys have the eight-strong flotilla of Vladimir Putin well within their sights -- just hours after Russian media mocked the 'tiny' British fleet.... (more)


October 20, 2016
BOB UNRUH — A federal judge on Wednesday doubled down on his suspension of President Obama's transgender bathroom plan for schools, affirming the injunction prevents the imposition of the program nationwide.... (more)


October 20, 2016
THOMAS SOWELL — It is never easy to tell what people's motives are. But, when the political Left proclaims their devotion to improving the lives of others in general, and of the poor in particular, we can at least get some clues from the way they go about it.... (more)


October 19, 2016
ABC NEWS — Seaweed could hold the key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, one cow burp at a time. New research carried out in north Queensland could drastically reduce the impact the agricultural industry has on the global environment.... (more)


October 19, 2016
BYRON YORK — The fundamental question in tonight's debate is whether Donald Trump gets a third chance to convince Americans he is a plausible president. Trump's people believe he has such a chance, that a large group of voters will be open-minded all the way to election day. But the polls suggest he has an impossible job ahead.... (more)


October 19, 2016
WORLDNETDAILY — Is Hillary Clinton a "sex freak" who has paid fixers to arrange sex between her and other men and women? That's according to a National Enquirer headline story splashed across the Drudge Report Tuesday. The tabloid magazine claims to be in contact with a "former Clinton family operative who is sensationally breaking ranks with his one-time bosses."... (more)


October 19, 2016
BILL FEDERER — Americans won the battle of Kings Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780 in which 668 British were captured, 163 wounded and 290 killed, as compared to only 29 Americans killed. Thomas Jefferson called the victory of the battle of Kings Mountain: "the turn of the tide of success" in the War for Independence.... (more)


October 18, 2016
DAILY CALLER — FBI agents say the bureau is alarmed over Director James Comey deciding not to suggest that the Justice Department prosecute Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information.... (more)


October 18, 2016
NEW YORK POST — Hillary Clinton swiped State Department furniture to decorate her Washington home, a former member of her security detail has alleged to the FBI. "Early in Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, she and her staff were observed removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, DC," an agent on the detail told the FBI.... (more)


October 18, 2016
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — So much has happened in the last week, it seems like eons have passed since Donald Trump's leaked tax-return information was all the rage. The big story was a few pages of the mogul's 1995 state income-tax returns, which showed a gargantuan loss of $916 million.... (more)


October 18, 2016
Donald may not be old enough to be president
ALAN KEYES — In my column for the Daily Caller this week, I write about the significance of the lewd remarks Donald Trump made boasting about how his "star power" lets him have his way with women, invasively groping their private parts without their consent. Quick to apprehend the politically costly impression this particular brand of sexual prowess might have on Trump's candidacy, his defenders conjure up a change of venue. They push the line that his remarks were just "locker room talk."... (more)


October 17, 2016
MONA CHAREN — It's been nearly a week since the Access Hollywood tape helped to persuade key parts of the nation that Donald Trump might have a character problem. "Would you vote for a sexual predator?" asked New York magazine. "Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton: Choose Your Sexual Predator" headlined The Federalist.... (more)

 
 
 
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