November 15, 2016

WES VERNON — Look, you lefties out there are just going to have to suck it up. The heart and soul of America loves America and rejects the America-haters. That is the essence of what happened Tuesday. We want our country back. You wanted to shove it in the other direction. We (hopefully) have settled that argument.... (more)

November 15, 2016

STEFANI WILLIAMS — Finally, this grueling election is over -- one of the most polarizing and bizarre elections in our nation's history. Here we had two of the least liked or trusted contenders ever to run for the Oval Office: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Had the Democrats nominated anyone other than Clinton to run against Trump, it's likely they would have one of their own sitting in the White House on January 20th.... (more)

November 15, 2016

Self-government of the heart makes self-government of the people possible

ALAN KEYES — According to Plutarch, before Rome's greatest orator, Cicero, began his ultimately ill-starred political career, he consulted the oracle at Delphi. He asked "how he should attain most glory." Came the answer: "by making his own genius and not the opinion of the people the guide of his life."... (more)

November 14, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Aware that their credibility is shot with the American people, the publisher and executive editor of the New York Times sent a "To our readers" note on Friday, saying, "we aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism."... (more)

November 14, 2016

NEWSMAX — President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday chose Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the favorite of the party's establishment and a low-key Washington insider, to serve in the influential position of White House chief of staff.... (more)

November 14, 2016

CBS NEWS — The following script is from "The 45th President," which aired on Nov. 13, 2016. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Rich Bonin and Ruth Streeter, producers. During what seemed an interminable campaign, a divided country found all kinds of ways to describe Donald Trump: visionary businessman, vulgar self-promoter, political neophyte. But after Tuesday, for all Americans, there's only one description that counts: president-elect.... (more)

November 14, 2016

WASHINGTON POST — In three distinct segments last night, "Saturday Night Live" pretty well encapsulated many of liberal America's reactions to Donald Trump's election as president. It was a little like working your way through the five stages of grief on live TV.... (more)

November 13, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES — Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server.... (more)

November 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has admitted his paper underestimated Donald Trump's support among American voters. Sulzberger promises to "rededicate ourselves" to the newspaper's standards of reporting news "honestly," but had the "Gray Lady" been fair to start with, it would not need to rededicate itself, New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin said in a Saturday opinion piece.... (more)

November 13, 2016

REUTERS — Kathryn Stellmack expects the world from Donald Trump. After listening to his speeches and casting her vote for him, she expects Trump to toughen immigration laws, restore lost jobs, upend a corrupt political system, build a wall on the border, and be, as the millionaire put it, the "greatest jobs president that God has ever created."... (more)

November 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — President-elect Donald Trump is being threatened following Tuesday's election with calls through social media for his assassination, and the Secret Service will likely investigate all threats they deem to be credible ones, according to security sources.... (more)

November 13, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The lame-duck session of Congress that opens Monday will likely be the lamest in recent memory in terms of what it accomplishes, conservative experts say.... (more)

November 12, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — CBS's "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson asked one of the dumbest questions during the campaign on his November 6 show. He asked Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, "Let me ask you this, before people get lost in the numbers, on the question of [the] Latino vote, it used to be seen by a number of Republicans as something the party had to do to catch up with the future of the country. As the Latino vote grows, do you think Donald Trump has helped or hurt that effort?"... (more)

November 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — President-elect Donald Trump began laying the groundwork on Friday to take office on Jan. 20, 2017, gathering the most loyal advisers from his insurgent campaign and three of his children to plot his transition strategy.... (more)

November 12, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump bandwagon is growing quickly as the transition team scrambles to put together a full slate of leaders to fill out the administration and plot an agenda, and is leaving lobbyists on the outskirts. One transition team member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said an all-hands meeting just before the election was sparsely attended. Wednesday's meeting had 10 times more people.... (more)

November 12, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., recommended on Friday that President-elect Trump nominate fellow former GOP presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat.... (more)

November 12, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday identified deregulation of banks as a top priority for his incoming administration in some of his first comments on his policy intentions since winning the presidency.... (more)

November 12, 2016

PHILIP KLEIN — Over the course of nearly six years, Republicans have passed dozens of bills to repeal all or part of Obamacare, but they have always been stymied -- first by a Democratic Senate and then by President Obama. As frustrating as this was to conservatives, this reality also came with a political benefit to the GOP: because Republicans knew their moves would eventually be blocked, they were able to tout their efforts to repeal Obamacare without having to deal with the consequences, or wrestle with the hard work of unifying the party around an alternative.... (more)

November 12, 2016

RICH LOWRY — In the course of about six hours, what was supposed to be a Republican existential crisis turned into a Republican wave. What was supposed to be a victory of the coalition of the ascendant became a dispiriting rout of the coalition that didn't show up.... (more)

November 12, 2016

U.S. NEWS — On Thursday, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, held a conference call with devastated staffers that put the rosiest possible frame on a calamitous picture. The message to the dozens of mostly young, sleep-deprived and shell-shocked aides: We did everything we could have. We wouldn't have changed a thing. You should still be proud.... (more)

November 12, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — There's little doubt the mainstream media tried to elect Hillary Clinton as president. But they got Donald Trump. The power of the press is legendary and enormous. So, how did that happen?... (more)

November 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — America "dodged the bullet" on Election Day with a rejection of Hillary Clinton, writer and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza told Newsmax TV. In an interview with host Joe Pagliarulo on "The Joe Pags Show," D'Souza, the author of "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party," said there was "a terrifying array of forces against" Donald Trump, as well as a "revolt against Trump" within the GOP.... (more)

November 12, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President-elect Trump said he received a call from the husband of his general election rival, former President Bill Clinton, who told him that his campaign was "one of the most amazing he's ever seen."... (more)

November 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's memoir is due out in days, but a sneak peek reveals how she got violently ill before moderating what turned out to be an infamous Republican presidential debate, the New York Times reported.... (more)

November 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's election has completely eradicated President Barack Obama's legacy, which was dependent on Hillary Clinton winning the White House, conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer said. "Obama's legacy is toast; it's gone," Krauthammer said Thursday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File."... (more)