November 28, 2016

ALAN KEYES — When the administration of government is grounded upon principles, clearly communicated and understood, all that is lacking is to appoint individuals firmly committed to respecting and implementing them. In such context, it can truthfully be said that nothing is more pertinent than the old maxim "Personnel is policy." Clear purposes and goals are just so much lip service unless people are assigned to the positions most critical to putting them into action.... (more)

November 28, 2016

USA TODAY — The Wisconsin Elections Commission agreed Monday to begin a recount of the presidential election on Thursday but was sued by Green Party candidate Jill Stein after the agency declined to require county officials to recount the votes by hand.... (more)

November 28, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She's got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there's one thing she needs to overturn Trump's victory: a calendar.... (more)

November 28, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The IRS is plowing ahead with controversial plans to use its files to try to prod more people to sign up for Obamacare -- but the tax agency has promised Congress it won't break any privacy laws. The letters are set to go out beginning next week, and are aimed at Americans who are paying the tax penalty rather than obtaining health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The IRS says the 2010 law requires it to inform those individuals they could do better by signing up for the embattled program.... (more)

November 28, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will skip the funeral of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro this week, the White House said Monday. White House press secretary Josh Earnest ruled out the possibility that Obama or Biden would travel to Havana on Tuesday to join other foreign leaders in bidding farewell to the communist revolutionary. Asked if Secretary of State John Kerry or another top administration official will attend, Earnest said: "Stay tuned."... (more)

November 28, 2016

NEWSMAX — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. Police said they are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Despite no evidence of fraud and a widespread belief that the entire effort will change nothing, Wisconsin election officials this week will begin a statewide recount of the presidential vote, adding yet another chapter to the fight between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.... (more)

November 27, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — Remember how Donald Trump was grilled repeatedly about his willingness to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election? Well, it turns out a little more attention should have been directed Hillary Clinton's way.... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Wisconsin Elections Commission has found no evidence that any of its voting machines were hacked during the Nov. 8 election, a spokesman said Saturday. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Friday filed a petition to have a state recount on the sole grounds that data experts believe there may have been a cyberattack. They have no evidence, but contend that Democrat Hillary Clinton performed better where paper ballots, rather than electronic ones were used.... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — They won't now complicate a Hillary Clinton presidency, but the emails from her time in the State Department will still trickle out over the next months as the administration tries to clean up the mess Mrs. Clinton left. Though President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that he would halt any official federal investigations into Mrs. Clinton's activities as secretary of state, groups that have driven the issue say they will continue to press the legal cases that have forced the release of tens of thousands of her emails and could still pry loose thousands more... (more)

November 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said if the GOP does not deliver on its mandate from Election Day and campaign promises, it will incite the electorate with "pitchforks and torches in the streets."... (more)

November 27, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Populism? No thanks. I am not now, nor will I ever be, a populist. Evidently, that separates me from a growing number of commentators, including some conservatives, wistfully engaged in Washington's latest fad: over-interpreting Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Washington think tank that helped forge the defense views of President-elect Donald Trump says in a report that the armed forces are too small to win major wars. The Heritage Foundation's "2017 Index U.S. Military Strength" gives the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps a collective grade of "marginal" for total power compared with a top score of "very strong." It stamps its lowest grade individually on the Army, which it judges "weak."... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — As has been seen over the last eight years, diplomacy that results in capitulation is not very effective. The key underlying factor for successful diplomacy is not just having a clear understanding of our vital strategic objectives, but also the military credibility to achieve those objectives as necessary.... (more)

November 27, 2016

TED CRUZ — Two decades of "Castro-is-dead" rumors are finally at an end. And the race is on to see which world leader can most fulsomely praise Fidel Castro's legacy, while delicately averting their eyes from his less savory characteristics. Two duly-elected leaders of democracies who should know better, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and American president Barack Obama, are leading the way. Mr. Trudeau praised Castro as a "legendary revolutionary and orator" who "made significant improvements to the education and health care of his island nation." Mr. Obama offered his "condolences" to the Cuban people, and blandly suggested that "history will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure." Now, he added, we can "look to the future."... (more)

November 27, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — With Fidel Castro's passing Friday evening prompting impromptu parties on the streets of Miami, area establishments have announced plans to continue commemorating the dictator's death with a slew of drink specials being offered in celebration.... (more)

November 27, 2016

NEWSMAX — A longtime bodyguard of the late Fidel Castro chronicled the Cuban dictator's life of luxury and ladies as the country starved, the N.Y. Post reported Sunday.... (more)

November 27, 2016

JANICE SHAW CROUSE — After all the anger and bitterness of this election, it's a respite to think about the eternal verities and ponder the importance of family and the traditions that unite us. Aunt Alice, age 98, died last month. She was the last of the "original" nine Crouse siblings and their spouses. With all 18 now gone, her death marks the end of an era for the remaining Crouse clan.... (more)

November 27, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — This is a football story with both political and legal implications. It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to kick the punt was black.... (more)

November 26, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Under the guise of suppressing "fake news," the elite media and their allies are creating a censorship regime to ban legitimate conservative news from platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter.... (more)

November 25, 2016

ALAN KEYES — Today, America is increasingly a nation in which certain opinions and groups are falsely deemed by those in power "more equal" and thus more worthy of protection than others, while those in opposition are tarred as outliers subject to persecution in the public square and even prosecuted under unjust "laws."... (more)

November 25, 2016

JERRY NEWCOMBE — Why do people from many other countries try to come to America -- even in some cases, risking their lives to do so? What is the source of this nation's greatness?... (more)

November 25, 2016

WESLEY PRUDEN — What we used to call "the press," before the newspapers aspired to be part of the professional class with its inflated titles and airs, is never happy. Nor should it be. The press is a demanding and cranky lot by definition, and now they're something called "the media." Marshall McLuhan, who invented the concept if not the word, must never be forgiven.... (more)

November 25, 2016

BOB UNRUH — A popular radio talk-show host has skewered Planned Parenthood for the talking points it gave to supporters so they can promote the abortion industry giant to their family this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.... (more)

November 25, 2016

THE TELEGRAPH — Antarctic sea ice had barely changed from where it was 100 years ago, scientists have discovered, after poring over the logbooks of great polar explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.... (more)