November 10, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Donald Trump accepted congratulations from across the political spectrum at home and from leaders around the globe Wednesday, just hours after voters elected him the nation's 45th president, and he hunkered down in New York to ponder a list of hefty decisions awaiting him.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President-elect Donald Trump addressed the country early Wednesday, pledging to put the hard-fought campaign behind him and begin working to unite the country. "It is time for us to come together as one united people," Mr. Trump said at victory rally in New York. "I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all the citizens and this is important to me."... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Despite bipartisan calls for healing and unity after a brutal presidential campaign, liberal activist groups vowed Wednesday to fight from the get-go to stop President-elect Donald Trump's agenda. Democracy for America, a leading liberal political action committee and dependable advocate for the Democratic Party, called for a "progressive political revolution" to stymie what it described as Mr. Trump's racist and sexist agenda.... (more)

November 9, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — The biggest losers on election night were in the liberal media, an adjunct of the national Democratic Party. But the far-left "progressives" who had backed Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and then rationalized voting for Hillary Clinton lost big. Many conservatives in the media also look like fools.... (more)

November 9, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — It will take a long time to analyze exactly what happened in the extraordinary election of 2016. It is already clear, though, that what propelled Donald Trump to the presidency was his grasping, before others caught on, that the contest was far less about right versus left, or even Republican versus Democrat, than about the country versus Washington.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to say Wednesday if President Obama would consider issuing a blanket pardon for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose charitable foundation is reportedly being investigated by FBI field offices for evidence of corruption, in order to spare her further investigation under incoming President Donald Trump.... (more)

November 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — Hillary Clinton "couldn't stop crying" once she learned of her loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday, best-selling conservative author Ed Klein told Newsmax TV on Wednesday.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — Live by the polls, die by the polls. Newsweek magazine is busily trying to prevent any more issues of a special commemorative edition from being sold after it hit stores Election Day featuring Hillary Clinton on the cover.... (more)

November 9, 2016

BREITBART — Singer Lada Gaga hopped on a sanitation truck early Wednesday morning in protest of President-elect Donald Trump's unprecedented victory Tuesday night to become America's 45th president.... (more)

November 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus was "in tears" after the release of a 2005 videotape showing Donald Trump using sexually aggressive language to describe his behavior toward women, according to Wisconsin radio veteran Charlie Sykes.... (more)

November 9, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe told Alec Baldwin that he deserves blame for the rise of Donald Trump because he portrayed Trump on Saturday Night Live. In an interview on Baldwin's "Here's the Thing" radio show published yesterday, Stipe said it was "so sad that we have allowed ourselves to sink to this level of, really, entertainment, that's what it is." He added, "I blame media completely for it. Including Saturday Night Live, sorry to say it."... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Voters across the country broke drug policy milestones Tuesday, passing ballot measures to grant legal access to recreational marijuana in three states -- including California -- and to give Americans in more than half of the 50 states access to medical marijuana.... (more)

November 9, 2016

THE DAILY MAIL — A jubilant Donald Trump gave his signature thumbs up as he returned home to Trump Tower this morning as the president-elect of the United States of America. Alongside his wife and First-Lady-to-be Melania, the businessman and reality TV mogul was met by a crowd of well-wishers, many wearing his signature Make America Great Again baseball caps. Meanwhile, Hillary supporters at home and abroad woke up shocked and dismayed at the decisive result which confounded the expectations of analysts, pollsters and election experts.... (more)

November 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — The former chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns -- and now a senior political commentator for CNN -- described Donald Trump's stunning Election Day performance as a "primal scream."... (more)

November 9, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES — Live Results Forecast: We're offering live estimates of the presidential race in real time.... (more)

November 9, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump claimed his place Wednesday as America's 45th president, an astonishing victory for the celebrity businessman and political novice who capitalized on voters' economic anxieties, took advantage of racial tensions and overcame a string of sexual assault allegations on his way to the White House.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Americans fed up with eight years of a sluggish economy and a growing disconnect with their leaders in Washington voted Tuesday to send businessman and political novice Donald Trump to the White House, guaranteeing one of the biggest shakeups in political history.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President-elect Donald Trump addressed the country early Wednesday, pledging to put the hard-fought campaign behind him and begin working to unite the country. "It is time for us to come together as one united people," Mr. Trump said at victory rally in New York. "I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all the citizens and this is important to me."... (more)

November 9, 2016

GARTH KANT — Republicans easily retained control of the House of Representatives, and even increased their majority. That means President-elect Donald Trump will have a GOP majority in both houses of Congress when he assumes office, as Republicans also kept control of the Senate.... (more)

November 9, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — After months of fretting about a tough electoral map, Republicans kept control of the House and Senate as they successfully defended a number of vulnerable seats Tuesday night. The GOP held its ground in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania.... (more)

November 7, 2016

This election, 'electors' are at liberty to act as 'the nation's search committee'

ALAN KEYES — This past July, I read an article by Lisa Bloom entitled "Why the New Child Rape Case Filed Against Trump Should Not Be Ignored." It came to my mind recently when I saw the headline "Woman Claiming Trump Rape at 13 Releases video." I watched the video and read the linked Independent Journal Review article by Kayla Brandon, reporting its release.... (more)

November 7, 2016

JOHN FUND — If you think our marathon election season will end on Tuesday, you might be wrong. "Margin of litigation" is a phrase we might hear a lot after Tuesday if the presidential election is close in one or more states. It refers to the number of votes by which a candidate must win in order to prevent litigation -- and delays -- before a result is final. Both parties will have armies of lawyers deployed on Election Night looking for irregularities and opportunities to go to court.... (more)

November 7, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — FBI Director James Comey wrote in a letter to members of Congress on Sunday that the FBI has not changed its position on Hillary Clinton's fate since its announcement in July that her "extreme carelessness" with classified information did not warrant criminal charges.... (more)

November 7, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's aides have taken control of his Twitter account days before Tuesday's election, according to The New York Times. "I'm on message," Trump told The Times. "I'm not playing around."... (more)

November 7, 2016

DAILY SIGNAL — The long-term costs to taxpayers of immigrants and their descendants are detailed in a new report from the National Academy of Sciences. The findings in the report indicate that if amnesty for illegal immigrants were enacted, the government would have to raise taxes immediately by $1.29 trillion and put that sum into a high-yield bank account to cover future fiscal losses generated by the amnesty recipients and their children.... (more)