December 1, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — It's often said "personnel is policy" when it comes to an incoming president's Cabinet selections, and that's what has some of Donald Trump's most fervent supporters asking, "Why THESE people?" In fact, Americans on both the left and right of the political aisle are expressing concern over the president-elect's recent choices for key positions in his administration.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump loyalists have been outspoken about the risks of making Mitt Romney secretary of state, but the last 48 hours have shown how useful the former Massachusetts governor can be to the president-elect.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President-elect Trump went on a "dinner date summit" with Mitt Romney Tuesday evening in New York City, and were greeted by a round of applause. The dinner at french restaurant Jean-Georges marked the second time the two have met in recent weeks, as Romney, a former critic of Trump during the campaign, is now being considered for secretary of state.... (more)

December 1, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — The political world is abuzz with speculation about President-elect Donald Trump's consideration of former CIA Director David Petraeus as his choice for secretary of state -- but Petraeus' positions on a variety of issues, including gun control, could upset conservatives if he is indeed selected for the slot... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON POST — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Buoyed by the election of President-elect Trump, Americans are expressing the most confidence in the U.S. economy since the 2008 recession, according to a new survey.... (more)

December 1, 2016

NEWSMAX — Veteran financial guru Larry Kudlow, who served as the Donald Trump campaign's senior economic adviser, tells Newsmax TV that the president-elect's tax-overhaul blueprint will benefit every economic class in America.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — "Lyndon Johnson was always to maintain that his wife's radio interests were totally divorced from politics," biographer Robert Caro wrote, "and that he, the politician in the family, had absolutely nothing to do either with acquiring KTBC's license or, once it was licensed, with its operations."... (more)

December 1, 2016

NEWSMAX — The national debt moved deeper into the red, surpassing $19 trillion, and staying above that dreadful number ironically on "Black Friday." CNSNews.com reported that the federal debt moved above $19.9 trillion for the first time as of the close of business, Nov. 22, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, according to data released by the Treasury.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — Congress has backed away from its plan requiring young women to register with Selective Service for the military draft and will, instead, review the system to determine whether a draft makes sense any longer.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — House Democrats renewed Rep. Nancy Pelosi's lease on power Wednesday, voting to keep her as party leader and insisting she bears no blame for her party's staggering electoral losses over the past six years. She faced her toughest challenge yet in her 14 years at the helm, ceding more than 60 votes to Rep. Tim Ryan, a 43-year-old Ohio Democrat who said the party had lost touch with middle America and needed a shake-up to begin connecting -- and winning -- again.... (more)

December 1, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — As Democrats hold their House leadership elections today, they are met with the stinging reality that they are now a party lost in the wilderness in search of an identity. The losses under President Obama have been brutal. In 2017, Republicans will hold the White House, the House, the Senate, a majority of governor's seats, and the most state legislatures in history.... (more)

December 1, 2016

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — "He didn't even carry his district for Hillary Clinton," Nancy Pelosi dismissively said of her failed rival for minority leader, Rep. Tim Ryan. It's harder to imagine someone missing the point more completely. Only about one in 10 House Democrats in the 115th Congress will come from Trump country, according to data from Five-Thirty-Eight's Harry Enten. Enten tweets that about 18 Democrats are in districts Trump won or tied. Tim Ryan is one of them, and Pelosi thinks that is a negative.... (more)

December 1, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — U.S. officials say Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali Muslim immigrant who used his car and a butcher knife to injure 11 people at Ohio State University on Monday, may have been a "lone wolf" attacker who become "self-radicalized."... (more)

December 1, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — In response to Donald Trump's tweet calling for the criminalization of flag burning, members of the Revolutionary Communist Party burned the American flag outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City on Tuesday.... (more)

November 30, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Donald J. Trump is labeled by CNN as a liar on a regular basis, while the dead communist tyrant Fidel Castro is lauded as a revolutionary hero. American reporters are in Havana, Cuba, to film people crying on their way to honor a dictator who had recommended that the Soviets launch a nuclear attack on the United States.... (more)

November 30, 2016

PHILIP KLEIN — By tapping House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, President-elect Trump has added to his team one of the most serious and knowledgeable Republicans on healthcare policy, and in the process pressed his finger on the scales of the internal GOP debate over how specifically to replace Obamacare.... (more)

November 30, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Obama administration sees no problem with the low numbers of persecuted Christian refugees getting into the United States, and likely won't pardon the millions of illegals seeking protection from President-elect Donald Trump.... (more)

November 30, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Islamic State's media arm claimed Tuesday that the Ohio State University student who carried out an attack on campus that injured 11 people was aligned with the terror group. The group's news agency, Amaq, labeled Abdul Razak Ali Artan "a soldier of the Islamic State" who "carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of international coalition countries," according to the Site Intelligence Group.... (more)

November 30, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Last Wednesday, in Albuquerque, NM, a pro-life pregnancy center sponsored by Project Defending Life, a Catholic ministry, was burglarized and set on fire. The arsonist ignited the altar and pews in the onsite Holy Innocents chapel, then set a rack of anti-abortion pamphlets ablaze.... (more)

November 29, 2016

PJ MEDIA — Pomona College is paying students to protest the new president-elect. That chilling detail trumps all the news about frantic college students who require safe spaces with Play-Doh and puppies to recover from the election. According to the Claremont Independent, Pomona College's Draper Center for Community Partnerships advertised a November 9th anti-Trump rally in Los Angeles on Facebook. It wasn't enough, however, for the center to promote a partisan political event.... (more)

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)