January 12, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's January 3 show, "Let me tell you, you take on the Intelligence Community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this." He was referring to President-elect Donald J. Trump's criticism of the Intelligence Community. Asked what the Intelligence Community could or would do to Trump, Schumer said, "I don't know. From what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them."... (more)

January 12, 2017

JOAN SWIRSKY — Nothing could have surprised the national and international public more than learning through a Boston Globe article by Jennifer Anne Perez on February 2, 2003, that U.S. Senator John Kerry – who presented himself as a born-to-the-purple "Boston Brahmin" of Irish-Catholic ancestry – was in fact the grandson of Czech Jews.... (more)

January 12, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Left-wing Democrat Norman Solomon says fellow Democrats are "more interested in playing to the press gallery than speaking directly to the economic distress of voters in the Rust Belt and elsewhere who handed the presidency" to Donald J. Trump. Democrats should spend some time learning "how they've lost touch with working-class voters," he says.... (more)

January 12, 2017

BRYAN FISCHER — Sen. Jeff Sessions faced the Senate Judiciary Committee this week in a confirmation hearing to become the next Attorney General of the United States. By all accounts, the left didn't lay a glove on Sessions in the first round, despite their repeated efforts to smear him as a racist. There is little question that Sen. Sessions will be a vastly superior AG to his predecessors, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. He has a genuine commitment to the rule of law, and will refrain from politicizing the office as was done under President Obama.... (more)

January 12, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, took a tough line on Russian hacking, praised Mexican immigrants and acknowledged the problem posed by global climate change -- drawing repeated accolades from Democrats during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, but setting up some potentially awkward moments with his future boss.... (more)

January 11, 2017

BIZPAC REVIEW — Arizona Sen. John McCain cemented his RINO status when he admitted Tuesday that he handed the dossier that smeared Donald Trump to the FBI. "Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public," he wrote in a statement on his website.... (more)

January 11, 2017

TOWNHALL — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) have introduced a bill to ask the Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an international terrorist organization.... (more)

January 11, 2017

LIFENEWS — Human Coalition has launched two resources aimed at equipping men for their role in ending abortion. Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women, by Human Coalition President Brian E. Fisher, examines men's role in subjugating women with abortion, challenging men to engage in the pro-life cause. Alongside the book, Human Coalition created an online resource center: AbortionExploitsWomen.com.... (more)

January 11, 2017

BYRON YORK — There was a lot of talk that the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions would be an epic showdown, with Democrats slashing Sessions' record and protesters turning the historic Russell Senate Office Building hearing room into a war zone.... (more)

January 11, 2017

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — Wilbur Ross, President-elect Trump's pick for Commerce Secretary, doesn't merely espouse government planning of the economy, he lobbies for it and profits from it.... (more)

January 11, 2017

BOB UNRUH — Barack Obama leaves the presidency with the nation more divided than at any time in decades, race relations at a new low and a surge in atheism, according to a new survey by Pew Research. The survey concludes the United States is "undeniably different" than when Obama was elected eight years ago, citing such trivia as the introduction of the Apple iPhone during his 2007 campaign and the fact that Twitter was only two years old then.... (more)

January 11, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Well before Russia's military came to Bashar Assad's aid in Syria, the Obama administration calculated that the Islamic State's expansion in the region would force the Syrian president into negotiating with Washington, according to private comments Secretary of State John F. Kerry made last fall.... (more)

January 11, 2017

NEWSMAX — More than half of U.S. troops surveyed in a recent Military Times poll have an unfavorable opinion of President Obama and his two-terms leading the military as he prepares to leave the White House. Just 36 percent said they approve of his job as commander in chief.... (more)

January 11, 2017

GREG COROMBOS — The Obama administration is using the intelligence reports of Russian hacking influencing the 2016 campaign as the premise for asserting more power over the states in running elections, but a top election fraud expert says federal involvement would make elections more vulnerable to mischief and is really just a way to insert the federal government where it doesn't belong.... (more)

January 11, 2017

BOB UNRUH — A privacy organization that has been pressing the Washington establishment for evidence supporting Democratic claims that Russia hacked their emails to influence the U.S. presidential election is ramping up the pressure with a Freedom of Information Act request to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.... (more)

January 11, 2017

JUDICIAL WATCH — The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter is a Muslim convert who years before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad), downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online, according to public records dug up by the investigative news site of an award-winning, California journalist. This is pertinent information that the Obama administration apparently wants to keep quiet, bringing up memories of the Benghazi cover up, in which the president and his cohorts knowingly lied to conceal that Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. Special Mission in Libya.... (more)

January 11, 2017

BLOOMBERG — Hungary plans to crack down on non-governmental organizations linked to billionaire George Soros now that Donald Trump will occupy the White House, according to the deputy head of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's party.... (more)

January 11, 2017

NEWSMAX — Robert Kennedy Jr., a noted skeptic of vaccine safety, said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump has asked him to chair a commission to investigate the issue.... (more)

January 10, 2017

THE RIGHT SCOOP — This is excellent. Ted Cruz turned his ire toward the Democrats today, exposing the blatant hypocrisy in their questioning of Sessions as opposed to their silence during the rampant lawlessness of the Obama administration.... (more)

January 10, 2017

THE BLAZE — Last week, a man named Estaban Santiago entered the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, and opened fire on civilians, killing five. While some lawmakers like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz are looking to make having guns in airports completely illegal, two Florida lawmakers are looking to make the laws much more relaxed.... (more)

January 10, 2017

CONSERVATIVE HQ — When evaluating the importance and veracity of a Washington story or scandal, one of the best rules to apply is the old Latin phrase cui bono or "who benefits?" And evaluated from this perspective, the greatest beneficiaries of the fake news storyline that the Russians "hacked the election" are not the Russians; they are the Obama Democrats.... (more)

January 10, 2017

NEWSMAX — ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria, and Sudan while the company was under Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show, USA Today reported. According to the explosive report, the sales took place from 2003 to 2005 when the three countries were under U.S. sanctions as state sponsors of terrorism.... (more)

January 10, 2017

DAVID FRENCH — Last night, Meryl Streep gave an impassioned, five-minute political speech that encapsulated most of what I hate about Hollywood liberalism. Streep had just received the Cecile B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, and she used the opportunity to launch a direct frontal attack on Donald Trump... (more)

January 10, 2017

YAHOO NEWS — Israeli police stepped up security measures in Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem on Monday, searching trucks and arresting relatives of the Palestinian truck driver who rammed his vehicle into a crowd of Israeli soldiers at a Jerusalem tourist spot the previous day, killing four soldiers and injuring 17 others.... (more)

January 10, 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)