January 9, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Thanks to Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship, those who fought under the American flag in the war that ushered in the end of law-enforced slavery for blacks in the United States did so in the name of the Union. That commitment to the Union prevailed again in the 20th century when Republican Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, who was at the time the chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, "delivered a celebrated speech...asserting that we must stop 'partisan politics at the water's edge....'"... (more)

January 9, 2017

JOHN FUND — The Obama Administration is leaving office much like the way it came in -- by exploiting perceived crises. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel, Obama's just-named chief of staff, told a Wall Street Journal conference of top CEOs in November 2008 while his boss was still president-elect.... (more)

January 9, 2017

BOSTON GLOBE — As he prepares to move out of the White House, Barack Obama is understandably focused on his legacy and reputation. The president will deliver a farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday; he told his supporters in an e-mail that the speech would "celebrate the ways you've changed this country for the better these past eight years," and previewed his closing argument in a series of tweets hailing "the remarkable progress" for which he hopes to be remembered... (more)

January 9, 2017

ROBERT KNIGHT — When the Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination as attorney general, it will be about a lot more than Mr. Sessions, who Democrats and their media allies began knee-capping the moment his nomination was announced in November.... (more)

January 8, 2017

WESLEY PRUDEN — President Obama is on his way out, and not a minute too soon. The legacy he obsesses over continues to expand in revealing ways. It may not be exactly what he thinks he's leaving, and it's more legacy than he wants. The terrorists of ISIS, whom the president famously derided as "the junior varsity," a ragtime army not to worry about, have metastasized throughout the Middle East and Europe on his watch, and may be coming soon to a neighborhood near you.... (more)

January 8, 2017

DAILY MAIL — A Palestinian has rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem, killing four and wounding at least 15 people, in a shocking copycat of the Berlin and Nice terror massacres. Shocking video from the scene shows the driver reversing back over the soldiers, trapping ten under his wheels, during the sickening attack on Sunday.... (more)

January 8, 2017

PJ MEDIA — After an end-of-the-year video showing pre-teens hunt down and kill bound prisoners in an abandoned building, the Islamic State today released an even more gory follow-up with children as young as preschool age murdering prisoners tied to broken carnival rides.... (more)

January 8, 2017

STEVE ERTELT — The watchdog group Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) has released its analysis of the latest annual report issued by the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The report shows abortion continues to be the dominant priority of the organization:... (more)

January 8, 2017

THE COLLEGE FIX — The Student Coalition for Progress at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently pushed a petition that alleged University of Wisconsin Madison's Young Americans for Freedom chapter is a hate group and its members and efforts "create a hostile environment on campus."... (more)

January 8, 2017

PHILIP KLEIN — Nearly seven years ago, moments before President Obama signed the national healthcare legislation into law, he declared, "When I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform."... (more)

January 8, 2017

LA TIMES — Republicans in Congress are beginning to grapple with how to help President-elect Donald Trump fulfill one of his biggest campaign promises: to build a wall along the Mexican border to slow illegal immigration. Trump is expected to ask Congress to provide the initial funding for the massive project, estimated to cost between $12 billion and $38 billion.... (more)

January 8, 2017

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said Saturday that he gained "a sense of disappointment" from reading the intelligence report on Russian hacking because it lacked true specifics detailing Moscow's interference in the November election.... (more)

January 8, 2017

BYRON YORK — Julia Ioffe, a writer for The Atlantic who watches Russia carefully, tweeted this about the intelligence community's unclassified report on Russian hacking released Friday: "It's hard to tell if the thinness of the #hacking report is because the proof is classified, or because the proof doesn't exist."*... (more)

January 8, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President elect-Donald Trump announced Saturday that he was nominating former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats as director of national intelligence. Mr. Trump touted the experience and judgement of Mr. Coats, a veteran of the Senate's Intelligence and Armed Services committees, as his choice to head the intelligence community and serve as his top advisor on intelligence matters.... (more)

January 8, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — The case of Esteban Santiago, the 26-year-old shooter in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport massacre, gets stranger by the minute.... (more)

January 7, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A small but expanding group of Republican senators are casting doubt on whether Republicans are moving too fast to repeal Obamacare without a replacement ready.... (more)

January 7, 2017

THE SUN — A GUNMAN who shot dead five people and injured eight others at a Florida airport "had walked into an FBI office claiming he was being forced to fight for ISIS". Esteban Santiago, the prime suspect in the mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport's baggage reclaim, spoke to authorities about the terror group in November.... (more)

January 7, 2017

JUDICIAL WATCH — A Jihadi-cartel alliance in the Mexican state of Nuevo León is collaborating to carry out attacks in American cities and ports of entry along the southern border, according to intelligence obtained by Judicial Watch from confidential U.S. and Mexican law enforcement sources. As part of the plan, militant Islamists have arrived recently at the Monterrey International Airport situated in Apodaca, Nuevo León, about 130 miles south of the Texas border.... (more)

January 7, 2017

NEWSMAX — Among the 18 Guantanamo Bay prisoners President Barack Obama is poised to release prior to leaving office, three of them have threatened to kill -- or behead -- Americans and even Obama himself, the Daily Mail reported.... (more)

January 7, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — The new chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus is promising one of the most consequential starts to a presidential administration in modern history, as Republicans stand poised to run Congress and the White House.... (more)

January 7, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — There are some swamps that we have to drain because they're our swamps. Washington is our swamp. The lesson of the 2016 election is that people across the ideological spectrum are furious at Washington. Our incoming president won because he convinced enough people that, while Hillary was a swamp creature, he -- the self-styled outsider non-politician -- would make like a big, shiny Trump colander. But Washington is not going away; once the ooze seeps out, the idea is to build something better -- like how New Jersey keeps building new stadiums on the marshy Meadowlands.... (more)

January 7, 2017

WORLDNETDAILY — There already have been several formal statements designating pornography as a public health hazard: by lawmakers in Utah, Republicans in Congress and South Carolina lawmakers, who have proposed a plan to require computer sellers to install blocking software.... (more)

January 7, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama threw themselves a big A-list party Friday night -- their last White House blowout before leaving office. Among the celebrity guests were David Letterman, Nick Jonas, Paul McCartney, John Legend, Robert De Niro, Stevie Wonder, Charles Barkley, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper, George Lucas, Meryl Streep, Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Marc Anthony, Sarah Jessica Parker and Tyler Perry.... (more)

January 7, 2017

LIFE SITE NEWS — A unanimous opinion handed down the last day of 2016 by the Alabama Supreme Court is the latest in a growing body of state law extending personhood and the equal protection of the law to pre-born children in Alabama.... (more)

January 5, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans won the first skirmish in the Obamacare fight Wednesday, voting to begin debating fast-track budget procedures that, if successful, would allow the GOP to kill the 2010 health care law without having to face a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.... (more)