January 16, 2017

ALAN KEYES — Abraham Lincoln was a man who typified the character of many of the Americans of his time. As I wrote in a recently published article: Judging by things that he said -- even in the speeches he gave in opposition to slavery -- it's not hard to show that Abraham Lincoln was a racist, with prejudices like those of many slaveholders, who regarded him as their enemy.... (more)

January 16, 2017

JOAN SWIRSKY — In 2009, America experienced a genuine coup d'etat, exquisitely formulated and flawlessly executed after decades of planning by the socialists, communists, and jihadists among us who loathe America and have wished for nothing less than transforming our great country into a mecca of far-left, anti-American policies, punctuated by preposterous liberal constructs like political correctness and multiculturalism, and ultimately subservient to Sharia law.... (more)

January 16, 2017

CLIFF KINCAID — Echoing New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer's warning that the intelligence community is out to "get" President-elect Trump, a Brookings Institution expert who served in the Clinton administration says that Trump's treatment of his spies will "come back to bite him" in the form of "devastating" leaks to the media that will make him look foolish or incompetent.... (more)

January 16, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President-elect Trump promised his replacement health care plan would have the goal of providing "insurance for everybody" and that drug companies would have to negotiate with the government on prices.... (more)

January 15, 2017

LIFE NEWS — On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed budget resolution that is the first step in defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. This repeal resolution is the first step in the process to re-direct Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding to legitimate health care entities and repeal Obamacare using the budget reconciliation procedure. President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to sign the bill into law.... (more)

January 15, 2017

BOB UNRUH — President-elect Donald Trump has released a list of possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, and with his inauguration just days away, his first nomination to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative stalwart, is expected at any time.... (more)

January 15, 2017

WASHINGTON TIMES — Between 700,000 and 900,000 spectators are expected to attend this year's presidential inauguration to watch Donald Trump be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, an event expected to test security personnel and draw at least 63 different demonstration groups, according to federal law enforcement officials.... (more)

January 15, 2017

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In the heat of the fall campaign, the commentariat got its knickers twisted over Donald Trump's vow that, if elected, he'd have his Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton, his political rival. How remarkable, then, that the media is so indifferent to the revelation that, at the very same time, the Obama Justice Department was actively conducting an investigation of Trump.... (more)

January 14, 2017

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW — As I warned last August, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has rushed through a designation of the nation's state and local election systems as "critical infrastructure." Why now, after the election and in the waning days of the Obama administration?... (more)

January 14, 2017

MICHAEL BARONE — On Wednesday, in his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump came out swinging -- against some of the media (while praising others), against the policies and performance of the Obama administration, and against the intelligence community.... (more)

January 14, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama will sign off on legislation allowing retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as defense secretary despite him having only retired from the military in 2013, the White House said Friday.... (more)

January 14, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said President Obama's farewell speech this week served as an admission that he is ending his two terms with little to show for them.... (more)

January 14, 2017

CHARLES HURT — The guy is -- literally -- turning out the lights as he leaves office. Whatever you think of America's Cuban immigration policy the past half century, it was both strategic and humanitarian. With a belligerent military dictatorship 90 miles off shore, American leaders of both parties believed it vital to American interests to undercut the brutal Castro regime.... (more)

January 13, 2017

NEWSMAX — FBI Director James Comey may have broken typical protocol during the Hillary Clinton email investigation by making evidence public, but his Justice Department superiors made his job more difficult, former federal prosecutor and author Andrew McCarthy told Newsmax TV.... (more)

January 13, 2017

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The New York Times managed this week to avoid almost all references to the "March for Life" in an article about -- the "March for Life." The paper's 700-plus-word report on Kellyanne Conway's plan to address the annual gathering of pro-life activists in the nation's capital referred to the event by its proper name only once, and it's done five paragraphs into the story and in reference to an organizer's job title.... (more)

January 13, 2017

POLITICO — Top aides to Donald Trump asked House Republicans Thursday to include provisions to make child care more affordable as part of a tax reform package this year -- a sign that the incoming administration wants to move quickly to fulfill the president-elect's campaign pledge on the matter.... (more)

January 13, 2017

DAVID KUPELIAN — The Benghazi 9/11 attack that killed four brave Americans was caused by a YouTube video. Michael Brown had his hands up and shouted "Don't shoot" before Ferguson cop Darren Wilson shot him. Man-caused global warming is settled science. Bruce Jenner is a woman. Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon is a white supremacist. Vladimir Putin hacked America's election system and Trump is his puppet.... (more)

January 13, 2017

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER — "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." So declared Barack Obama in Columbia, Missouri, on Oct. 30, 2008, on the cusp of his historic presidential election. It was a bold statement, revolutionary even, surpassed only by the response of those in attendance, who, rather than pausing to reflect upon such an audacious assertion, wildly applauded. To be sure, these Obama enthusiasts would have ecstatically cheered anything he said at that moment.... (more)

January 13, 2017

PETER HECK — It is fitting that presidents give farewell messages. But given the venue and setting President Obama had chosen, it was fairly easy to surmise that this would be a final political rally and national lecture.... (more)

January 13, 2017

MATT WALSH — There's been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about Barack Obama's "legacy." I think he will be remembered for many things, none of them good, but his greatest legacy is precisely the opposite of the legacy he claimed he would leave: the utter collapse of race relations in this country.... (more)

January 13, 2017

RED STATE — t's amazing how quickly people can become conditioned. In 2008, Obama and the Democrats began telling us (again, as bad ideas never die in Washington D.C.) that America was suffering from an epidemic of people dying on emergency room floors because they don't have health insurance. WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY!... (more)

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)