November 22, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — With radical Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) already in the running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), another extremist is considering entering the race. Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, made a name for herself at the Democratic National Convention with a speech proclaiming that she had an abortion because a baby would interfere with her career plans.... (more)

November 21, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has informed Trump transition insiders that he would accept the nomination to take the place of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, potentially cementing the power of the court's conservative wing for decades, according to sources.... (more)

November 21, 2016

BYRON YORK — President-elect Trump's transition team knew that nominating Jeff Sessions for Attorney General would set off controversy. Democrats and their allies in the press have at key times in the past called Sessions a racist -- they're now using the Alabama senator's full name, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, to heighten the Old South effect -- and now, as they oppose Trump at nearly every turn, they've turned to race again.... (more)

November 20, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Before Election Day, the liberal media were speculating about the demise of the Republican Party. However, the media misjudged the electorate before November 8 and they are misjudging it again. It's the Democratic Party that faces an uncertain future.... (more)

November 20, 2016

WASHINGTON POST — One of the nation's leading immigration hard-liners is working with Donald Trump's presidential transition team. Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, told a Wichita-based television station he was consulting with Trump insiders on the future of U.S. immigration policy. "I'm a member of the immigration policy transition team, and there's going to be a lot to do there, in part because Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama are diametrical opposites when it comes to immigration policy, so there will be a lot of changes," Kobach told KWCH.... (more)

November 20, 2016

THE GAZETTE — Senate Democrats are not going to be able to block Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions bid to become attorney general. And they can't do much to stop Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo from assuming the helm of the CIA. And they have only themselves to thank for it.... (more)

November 20, 2016

WESLEY PRUDEN — The Democrats and their media acolytes keep sorting through the entrails of road kill looking for clues to find the disaster to unmake the making of the president. So far nothing has worked. First someone had the bright idea that the losers could petition the electors in the Electoral College to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton as a gesture of generosity and the way to "bring us together" again. The electors would have an epiphany, like the Apostle Paul's on the road to Damascus, and vote to make Hillary the president after all.... (more)

November 20, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — When a couple of lawyers lecture you about your "fundamental misunderstanding of our Constitution and the relative powers of Congress and the president in foreign policy," ask yourself this: Have they cited the provisions of constitutional or statutory law they claim you've misunderstood? If not, if they're hiding the ball, you're probably being conned.... (more)

November 19, 2016

WASHINGTON POST — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, a pair of hard-line conservatives who offer early signs of the shape of Trump's Cabinet.... (more)

November 19, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Bummer. President-elect Donald Trump's choice of conservative Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is proving to be something of a buzzkill to the nation's marijuana entrepreneurs, who fear his record opposing legalized pot could mean an abrupt halt to the industry's recent success under President Obama.... (more)

November 19, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Donald Trump's election upset will likely shrink what was once poised to be a protracted post-election, lame-duck session of Congress, and that's just fine with Democrats and Republicans.... (more)

November 19, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The administration has already taken the first step to accommodate President-elect Trump's positions, agreeing Friday to take a timeout on President Obama's push to kick-start his 2014 deportation amnesty. In documents filed with a federal judge in Texas the Justice Department said that in light of the new management that will take over next year, the case should be suspended.... (more)

November 19, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President-elect Donald Trump says he'll abandon his predecessor's global climate change deal, but that didn't stop the Obama administration this week from rolling out a new, even more ambitious plan to cut U.S. emissions by 80 percent by 2050, undermining the incoming president on the world stage two months before his inauguration.... (more)

November 19, 2016

NEWSMAX — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to settle fraud lawsuits relating to his Trump University series of real estate seminars for $25 million, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.... (more)

November 19, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board is calling on President-elect Trump to let go of his business empire when he becomes the nation's next president in January.... (more)

November 19, 2016

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called on fellow conservatives Thursday to continue the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia to keep the power of the courts and other branches of government in check.... (more)

November 19, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — The mainstream media are going wild circulating a viral list of so-called "fake news" websites -- and the list includes established news sites like WND, Breitbart, Red State, the Daily Wire and Project Veritas -- but WND has found a leftist, Trump-bashing assistant professor in Massachusetts who specialized in "fat studies" is behind the effort to target and discredit legitimate news organizations.... (more)

November 18, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — President-elect Trump made his first legislative move on Thursday, and convinced the Republican-led House to delay major spending legislation until next March. Appropriators had been working for weeks on a long-term spending proposal, but that was scrapped thanks to an electoral upset by Trump that has suddenly shifted the balance of power decisively to the Republican party.... (more)

November 17, 2016

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — The revolving door is the root of corruption in Washington, D.C., and President-elect Donald Trump may have just slowed it. Trump's pledge to bar administration officials from lobbying for five years after they leave office is his first valuable move towards unrigging the game.... (more)

November 17, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn is being considered by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Education in his new administration. "Names fly around at light speed. Mine is one of the minor names. This is not the first time this has happened to me," Arnn wrote in an email to Hillsdale's campus newspaper on Thursday... (more)

November 17, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — As the post-election shock of some, and the euphoria of others, both begin to wear off, the country and the new administration will have some very serious problems to face, at home and abroad. How those problems are faced -- or evaded -- will tell us a lot about the next four years, and about the longer-run future as well.... (more)

November 17, 2016

LEO HOHMANN — One of Michigan's 16 electors who will be called upon to cast a vote validating the election of Donald Trump in the Electoral College has testified on video that he and others in the state are receiving "dozens and dozens of death threats" from Hillary Clinton supporters urging them to switch his vote to Clinton.... (more)

November 17, 2016

DAVID FRENCH — Last week, my friends and former colleagues at the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The facts of the case aren't terribly exciting: The university, like many universities, has a mandatory "service learning" program that requires students to perform 30 hours of community service, and it uses the program as a thinly disguised means of astroturfing student activism.... (more)

November 17, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper abruptly announced plans to step down Thursday after six sometimes-contentious years in the post, opening another gap in the growing list of top national security posts the incoming Trump administration will have to fill in the coming weeks.... (more)

November 17, 2016

WES VERNON — The left and their backers often argue their case by resurrecting parts of their closetful of smear paint, including the vilification of anyone who disagrees with them.... (more)